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Tea drinking peoples of the internets! Here’s a little experiment I’d like you try next time you make a cuppa with a tea bag. If you’re strictly loose-leaf, then this test isn’t going to be for you, but for the rest of us, give it a go and see if you think it tastes any better. First boil a kettle of fresh water, so that it is has oxygen. Reboiled water loses it’s oxygen and therefore doesn’t brew properly. Then, here’s the bit I want you to test (although you may already do this part)… Dribble the boiling water onto the tea bag from at least a foot away. The smaller the amount of water the better. … Read the rest here

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Hashbangs . Yes, again. This is important, dammit! When the topic first surfaced, prompted by Mike’s post on the subject , there was a lot of discussion. For a great impartial round-up, I highly recommend two posts by James Aylett : Wisdom comes from genuine reflection and Client-side routing, the teenage years . There seems to be a general concensus that hashbang URLs are bad. Even those defending the practice portray them as a necessary evil… Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Kickoff for Mac : This app’s mini-site has been making the rounds on Twitter today, and deservedly so. Try clicking some of the screens in the main slider, enjoy the well-crafted video, and have a peek at the HTML5 markup, too. And of course, download the app. … Read the rest here

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Scrollability : Summarized nicely by its creator, Joe Hewitt: “Native scrolling for mobile web apps… or at least the closest thing to it!” Check the example on your iOS device: http://bit.ly/scrllabl The pinned header in the example reminds me of the newly updated mobile.twitter.com , which has some really nice features for a web-based app. … Read the rest here

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DOC2DOCK: Save Our Supplies : The service tells the story. Delightfully. /via @ carson … Read the rest here

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Responsive Web Design or Separate Mobile Site? Eh. It Depends. : Josh Clark, author of Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps , summarizes and opines on many of the debates circulating the community right now regarding responsive design and mobile-optimized content. It’s a good read. … Read the rest here

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Carousel: Instagram on Your Mac : This is some lovely UI work. It’s like Twitter for Mac, but for Instagram pics. /via @ chartier … Read the rest here

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Bolefloor Natural-Cut Flooring : Here’s an idea that’s both aesthetically beautiful and ecologically sound. Cutting along the grain line, rather than in straight lines, “allows more floors per forest.” The result is stunning. Check out the gallery for additional samples. /via @ buildllc & @ mikeindustries … Read the rest here

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Blake Allen , a man with impeccably good taste in music and the founder of Designers.MX, has just posted my mixtape: The Film Sessions, Volume One . I’m a film score nut. For a short time during college I was a music major with aspirations of becoming a composer for films. Obviously, I never made the cut, so I live out glory days gone by through collecting and arrange scores that others have composed. Sure, I enjoy indie rock as much as anyone else while working, but I also enjoy relaxing instrumental pieces as a soundtrack to my workday. … Read the rest here

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Yesterday, Brandy Fortune asked me on Twitter if there are “ any major sites written in HTML 5 now “. I decided to throw the question to my Twitter gang , and was of course immediately deluged in answers. Also a small helping of standards politics, which wasn’t really what I was after but probably should have known was inevitable. Le sigh. Anyway, here’s a sampling of the sites most frequently mentioned and how they’re using HTML5, listed in no particular order… Read the rest here

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#1D4D : Today is One Day For Design, an initiative by AIGA. Add the hashtag #1D4D to your tweets to join in the conversation, or simply filter tweets by #1D4D to follow along. … Read the rest here

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The Hobbit: Filming at 48 fps : I tweeted about this earlier, but it’s worth repeating here so I can excerpt a few highlights. On Facebook, director Peter Jackson describes why 24 fps (frames per second) — the standard frame rate used in nearly every major motion picture — is an antiquated practice: Originally, 24 fps was chosen based on the technical requirements of the early sound era. I suspect it was the minimum speed required to get some audio fidelity out of the first optical sound tracks. They would have settled on the minimum speed because of the cost of the film stock. 35mm film is expensive, and the cost per foot (to buy the negative stock, develop it and print it), has been a fairly significant part of any film budget. … Read the rest here

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QuickBar: Gone. : Doug Bowman, posting to Twitter’s company blog: Rather than continue to make changes to the QuickBar as it exists, we removed the bar from the update appearing in the App Store today. We believe there are still significant benefits to increasing awareness of what’s happening outside the home timeline. Evidence of the incredibly high usage metrics for the QuickBar support this. For now, we’re going back to the drawing board to explore the best possible experience for in-app notification and discovery… Read the rest here

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Media Queries, a Gallery of Responsive Web Designs : Fantastic. Only complaint: make the screens click over to the site. /via @ khoi … Read the rest here

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Clément Beauvais: Solidarités International : A campaign spot of this caliber, created by agency BDDP on behalf of Solidarités International and World Water Day, is bound to have nothing but superlatives describing it. Absolutely fantastic. Clément Beauvais — a young director, illustrator, musician and photographer — created the drawings and directed the spot for BDDP. That’s some serious talent. … Read the rest here

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Le Flâneur : A time-lapse of Paris filmed with 2,000 stills. A project by Luke Shepard, student at The American University of Paris. /via @ globalmoxie … Read the rest here

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The Monster at the End of This iPad : An interactive version of my all-time favorite children’s book. Totally worth $4. /via @ zelph … Read the rest here

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Is a Macbook Air up to the job of being a primary working machine? It has for me… Since 1995, I’ve always used a Mac laptop as my primary (and only) work machine. When at the office, I plug it into a large screen with keyboard and mouse, and then at home or travelling I’ve got absolutely everything I need with me. Having seen the new generation Macbook Air in the flesh/aluminium, and how small and light it is compared to my unibody MacBook Pro, I wondered if it could be the way forward. The fact that I now cycle to work gave me more impetus to get something that wouldn’t be so heavy on my back. … Read the rest here

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I awoke on my final morning in Florida to find that Jeffrey had written some kind words about a post of mine on responsive design . He also tweeted the link which prompted many questions and comments on Twitter. I didn’t respond to them. I have written about responsive web design here in my journal and I’m sure I will have much, much more to say on the matter. But this kind of subject—the sort that requires nuanced, thoughtful discussion—is completely unsuited to Twitter. If anything, Twitter’s tendency (or “twendency”, if you will …’sokay—I just punched myself in the face for that) is to reduce more complex discussion down into simplified soundbites and Boolean values. … Read the rest here

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Apple’s Role in the Earthquake : An email from an Apple Japan employee and friend of Kevin Rose: 7 hours and 118 aftershocks later, the store was still open. Why? Because with the phone and train lines down, taxis stopped, and millions of people stuck in the Tokyo shopping district scared, with no access to television, hundreds of people were swarming into Apple stores to watch the news on USTREAM and contact their families via Twitter, Facebook, and email…. You know how in disaster movies, people on the street gather around electronic shops that have TVs in the display windows so they can stay informed with what is going on? In this digital age, that’s what the Tokyo Apple stores became. … Read the rest here