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Earlier today Erik Spiekermann made mention of FF Chartwell , and, at least conceptually, it’s pretty fantastic. Similar to the way icon fonts replace keyboard characters with icons, FF Chartwell uses alphanumeric characters to generate beautiful charts on the fly. To my knowledge, however, this works only in software programs and can’t be embedded in web pages. Update: It can be embedded . It’s possible to embed it, but the current EULA doesn’t allow it. Demo by Yaron Schoen who says , “Besides the FOUT which was really hard (impossible?) to remove, it was glorious.” The family includes “weights” for creating bar, line, radar, pie, rose, and ring charts… Read the rest here

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Newcastle : An impromptu compilation using footage I gathered during my stay in Newcastle Upon Tyne and Gateshead (UK). This was my first visit to Newcastle, in town to speak at DIBI 2012. I flew in Sunday evening, dropped off my luggage, grabbed my camera, and proceeded to lose myself in the streets of the city. The camera captured what I saw. I later debuted this video during my presentation. I didn’t have a tripod with me as I was traveling light. … Read the rest here

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Harry Brundage , a co-worker of mine at Shopify , does a lot of CoffeeScript development and said he would love to be able to do CoffeeScript right from the console in Chrome’s Web Inspector. I asked Paul Irish , a “dev relations guy” at Google, to point me in the right direction on building just such a thing. The result of today’s pet project is CoffeeConsole , a Chrome extension that adds a new panel inside the Web Inspector. Type in any CoffeeScript and then hit the run button (or hit Command-Enter or Shift-Enter). The code will be compiled into JavaScript and then run in the context of the current window… Read the rest here

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‘Paper’ for iPad : There are so many things right about this app. The lovely watercolor, miniature sketchbook icon. The marketing site. The “take this everywhere life takes you” video above. … Read the rest here

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I loved bike shops as a kid (especially the smell of them!) but we didn’t, and still don’t, have anything quite like this. 718 Cyclery is not only a great retail space, but the whole attitude to building bikes and access to the process is unique and just plain brilliant. I found myself nodding in agreement to everything Joe says. As for the bike they build in video – gorgeous! Via twinfish on twitter. … Read the rest here

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Last Autumn I borrowed a friend’s Turbo Trainer, an odd looking device that allows you to use your bike indoors for training. With the nights getting longer and the weather getting worse, it seemed like a good way of retaining the fitness gains and weight loss from the summer. My first experience wasn’t that great, rather uninspiring in fact. The bike is locked into a rigid position, there was a fair bit of noise (even though this was one of the quietest ones) and it felt nothing like cycling on a road. … Read the rest here

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At last November’s Build conference I gave a talk on digital preservation called All Our Yesterdays : Our communication methods have improved over time, from stone tablets, papyrus, and vellum through to the printing press and the World Wide Web. But while the web has democratised publishing, allowing anyone to share ideas with a global audience, it doesn’t appear to be the best medium for preserving our cultural resources: websites and documents disappear down the digital memory hole every day. This presentation will look at the scale of the problem and propose methods for tackling our collective data loss. The video is now on vimeo . The audio has been huffduffed … Read the rest here

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Aral recently released the videos from last September’s Update conference . You can watch the video of my talk if you like or, if video isn’t your bag, I’ve published a transcription of the talk . It’s called One Web, Many Devices and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. It’s a short talk—just under 17 minutes—but I think I made my point well, without any um-ing and ah-ing. … Read the rest here

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‘The Bacon and Cheese Machine’ is a collaboration between Illustrative genius McBess and P-G Bikes for Dudes Factory I’m a sucker for art projects like this, and really fancy having a go myself! This video shows the intricate painting process unfold: … Read the rest here

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Here’s a great find from the dusty depths of YouTube – a British Transport promotional film from 1955. Not only does this feature Tweed (plus fours much in attendance), cycling, a fantastic soundtrack, railways and country pubs, it’s also filmed around the area I grew up in Warwickshire. So if you need an antidote to haggard looking men or hipsters doing trackstands on their fixies*, this is it! Part One Part Two Via the Tweed Cycling Club *I do love Rapha and fixie videos too, its just that, well, this is the complete opposite . Tagged: britain , cycling , films , retro … Read the rest here

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Lighting Techniques for Video Interviews : This is an excellent tutorial that answered a lot of questions for me regarding how to light an interview properly, as that’s something I’m still experimenting with . … Read the rest here

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The fine folks at Made by Hand made a cheery promo video for those lovely designy temporary tattoo people at Tattly . I love it when smart people get together and make great things. And you can’t help but smile while watching this. I make a cameo appearance about seven seconds into the video. … Read the rest here

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Wow, Little Printer from BERG is such a stellar little example of making something simple and fun. Little Printer lives in your front room and scours the Web on your behalf, assembling the content you care about into designed deliveries a couple of times a day. You configure Little Printer from your phone, and there’s some great content to choose from — it’s what Little Printer delivers that makes it really special. We have an incredible group of launch partners, and in the run-up to shipping we’re working with them all on custom publications. It makes mini personal newspapers! Count me in. Just watch the video and tell me you couldn’t see using one of these things… Read the rest here

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A month ago I made one of the best purchases I’ve made in a long time. I bought a kick scooter . Not one of those aluminum things with rollerblade wheels where the handle is so short you have to hunch over—but a scooter built for adults. Check out this video that shows how the KickPed operates—particularly how it folds up. … Read the rest here

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Technology enabled Sloan Churman to hear for the first time . Technology enabled her to capture that moment. Networked technology enabled her to share that moment with the world. The network enabled me to share it with you. … Read the rest here

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Music From a Dry Cleaner : Diego Stocco: Almost everyday, on my way to a local bakery, I walk in front of a dry cleaners. When they have the front door open, I hear a lot of interesting sounds coming from their work equipment. Eventually, the different mechanical and steam sounds sparked something in my mind, so one day I asked the owners if I could record a piece of music by using their machines as musical instruments. The closing line in the video is just perfect. … Read the rest here

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Stephen Doyle, that super smart guy that everyone loves, created some lovely tape illustration/lettering/installations for a New York Times Magazine story this weekend. Lots of people do these type illusions, but few do it this well. Check out the tape on the skeleton’s ribs! I want to be Stephen Doyle when I grow up. Also, don’t miss the behind the scenes video. … Read the rest here

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Here’s an interesting idea for improving bike lights and night time visibility. Revolights is a Kickstarter Project that places LED s in a ring around the wheel, timed so that it provides a constant beam lower down, lighting up the road around you: From the video, I’m not 100% convinced that they’re quite bright enough yet, but to be honest, I adore the effect. Tron light cycle comparisons aside, I’m just a fan of how they look when moving. I really hope this project gets some attention, funding and development – in a few years this might be the kind of thing that gets built into the wheel itself. Tagged: cycling , inventions … Read the rest here

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Nosh 404: Behind the Scenes : The deftly talented Alex Cornell (director, cameraman, editor, voice talent, designer , musician ) describing the production process for the Nosh 404 page : The script was basically this: cool place, action and stuff, guns, cool sounds. Generally that’s about all I have to go off anyway for my videos, so I figured we were ready to rock and roll. It’s pretty impressive to read just how much was done by one individual, and done so well. … Read the rest here

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Vimeo PRO : Yesterday Vimeo unveiled its PRO account for businesses . They’ve had a long-standing policy against commercial videos on the site, though many have slipped past the radar if they were creative or artistic enough. Now they welcome business accounts, but with a catch: Vimeo PRO lives as a separate service — invisible to the Vimeo.com world…. Vimeo PRO accounts do not have access to the Vimeo community by default, meaning PRO accounts’ activity and videos will not show up on Vimeo.com, and they do not have the ability to like or comment. We’ve taken this step to keep commercial content hidden and maintain the current Community Guidelines. Commercial videos are housed in customizable portfolio pages, and the Vimeo player can be fully customized to your liking (including company logo)… Read the rest here