Month: August 2009

Matt Zoller Seitz and Aaron Aradillas recently completed a five-part video series on the evolution of the summer blockbuster movie focused on the summers of 1984 and 1989.

InvisibleHand shows a discreet notification when the product you’re browsing can be bought for a lower price elsewhere. It gives you a link directly to the product page at the competing retailer.

iPhone2VLC is a web app for iPhone which puts you in control of your VLC, remotely!

Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser’s default behavior, build a basic typographic layout — including style for HTML forms and new HTML 5 elements — and build a simple grid system. Baseline was born to be a quick way to prototype a website and grew up to become a full typographic framework for the web using “real” baseline grid as it’s foundation.

Here, for your mass uprising pleasure, is a cheat sheet. It identifies the usual pitch of the marketing in each tech product category — and contrasts it with a much more important feature, in each case, that the advertisers conveniently avoid mentioning.

"It may seem to Americans that U.S.-style free enterprise — private-sector, for-profit health insurance — is naturally the most cost-effective way to pay for health care. But in fact, all the other payment systems are more efficient than ours."

This webpage is a demonstration of the built-in version control capabilities for HTML. The INS and DEL tags are used along with the cite and datetime attributes to indicate why and when something changed.
This is all very primitive and requires some additional work to turn into a coherent version control system. Ordinarily, web browsers will display the DEL element as struck-out text. What we do here is to instead hide that text and only display it when you want to see the diff.

Delighting avid photographers everywhere, Urban Outfitters teams up with The Impossible Project to bring back instant film photography.