Paul van Walree explains bokeh
- the aesthetic quality of out-of-focus blur in photographs [related] [related] [via]
Interaction design • webdevelopment • web art • photography
Analysis: Postbank.nl Phishing Scam [via]
Dear visitors, don't believe these emails talking about money transfers via Postbank, it's all a big scam to trick you out of your money!
A New Kind of Science and the Future of Mathematics - with lots of (inspirational) pictures of pretty cellular automatonsa and randomness in nature. [via binkley's BLOG]
soc.history.what-if: Behind the Green Door - big usenet thread speculating on the Earth of 250,000,000 A.D. [via Wis[s]e Words]
Naar Voren - bookmarklets voor webdesigners - my second Naar Voren article has been published! (the first one being de kunst van minimaal coderen, which coincided with the 5K contest last year.) Those of you that can't read Dutch might want to scroll down a couple of pages, where you'll find a big list of handy bookmarklets.
I quickly thought up a new bookmarklet to use as an example in the article; as it turns out, it's pretty handy:
count used tags (drag to Links-bar)
The other article in the current edition is Breng detail aan in je markup by Anne van Kesteren. Coincidentally we both refer to Simon Willison in our articles... :)
Censored 2004: The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2002-2003 - although most are not so much censored as just very underreported. [via Midnight Factory]
Digital Web Magazine - Keep Javascript Simple - Peter-Paul Koch argues against external Javascript libraries, which often needlessly replace already quite compact-and-compatible DOM statements.
I could've probably moved a lot of iambald-code into a single DHTML library, but never really felt the need--more so after I gave up trying to support Netscape 4. Plus, I like the fact that visitors can simply View Source a page and see the whole code without having to go searching through separate .js files. [via paranoidfish.org]
Game Girl Advance: Zine - nice collection of gaming-related articles/stories. [via Anil Dash]
{fray} drugs - the scar with beautiful illustrations by Witold Riedel. [via prolific.org]
Idea: to compile a list of current stories, meaning any tv series, book or movie with a continuing narrative that I'm reading/watching and haven't yet reached the end of:
24 (in the middle of S2)
Angel (waiting for S5)
Firefly (cancelled after ep. 10)
Hellsing (at ep. 8)
LOTR The Two Towers (1/4th remaining)
Stellvia of the Universe (at ep. 6)
Samurai Jack (at ep. 4, ignoring horrible Dutch dubs on tv)
Six Feet Under (waiting for S2)
The Day of the Triffids (only a few pages left)
The Matrix Trilogy (waiting for Revolutions)
The Quiet American (paused halfway)
The Sopranos (somewhere in S3, currently rewatching S2)
Wolf's Rain (at ep. 14)
...
Also, sort of:
Aeon Flux (still haven't seen all eps to be able to fully comprehend the story overall world view)
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex (at ep. 14; if there is an overencompassing story arc, it's rather subtle)
...
And He Built a Crooked House - short story by Robert A. Heinlein. One of the Sci Fiction Archived Classics. [via Metafilter]
gladwell dot com / The Naked Face - Can you read people's thoughts just by looking at them? [via kottke.org]
Flatland, by E. A. Abbott, 1884
Readable online, with illustrations. [via stpeter]
snarkout.org: The King of Handcuffs - on Harry Houdini, with plenty of links. [via Anil Dash]
Doctors vs. Geeks, + comments. [via Keith Devens .com]
I Am Not Here For a While - leuschke.org leaves an interesting placeholder page.