A4 gradient by Jordi Ferreiro
Vivified
A first look at “Ponyo on a Cliff”, Miyazaki’s new film. Try to look past the Japanese TV frenzy.
Browsing my CDs I came across John Zorn’s Madness, Love and Mysticism. Such an amazing album cover.
“ My only regret is that I didn’t buy more clown shoes. A dozen, two dozen, enough to last me for the rest of my life.
–David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Firefox 3
is out, sporting Cocoa chrome and the pervasive as-big-as-Gates’-glasses back button!
SproutCore
Ruby on Rails is so last tuesday. Sproutcore is a cocoa-like framework for developing Javascript-based web apps with a JSON backend.
Mattias Ljungström creates an iPhone shell for Processing.js! If only he would release the source.
Versions - Mac Subversion Client
Jasper Hauser et al. create a nice and clean interface to Subversion. Not sure if this will pry me from my terminal though.
For the last few months, the interweb has been positively buzzing with Barack Obama hype. I’m no election buff, but this seems to be something new (and exclusive to Obama). What’s especially interesting is that most references to Obama I stumbled upon have little to do with politics. Maybe the nerds feel they are finally being heard.
Plurk
Plurk is a Twitter clone that shows ‘tweets’ on a timeline, which is pretty nifty. I really don’t understand why all these apps think they have to reinvent the wheel though. Twitter API anyone?
Compelling photography by Andrzej Dragan.