February 2010
17 posts
“In a paper due out this year in the journal Emotion, Mr. Kraus and his...”
– This just in: touching is good
Mind - New Research Focuses on the Power of Physical Contact - NYTimes.com
Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment →
This is a fantastic project. Readability, by Arc90, isolates the content on a web page allowing easy readability on poorly designed sites. You can even customize the “new” appearance of content.
I found this via Zeldman and he covers the reasons why this is so useful not only for desktop browsing but for mobile as well.
Great to see things of quality such as this being released.
How to Find Really Old Tweets
Twitter used to have a paginated URL setup for viewing old tweets. The new “more” button that loads updates in-line is fine but what happens if you want to go way back to an even older tweet?
You used to be able to find it through Twitter advanced search by specifying the user (you) and searching for keywords or within time frames. Doing that now shows that even Twitter search...
Why does Gmail suck at adding your signature?
I have a custom signature setup in my gmail. I use it so all my relevant contact info is at the end of each message as I tend to forget to include things like my cell, etc.
When writing a new message, no problem. Gmail handles this fine and I can send the email and continue with my life, stress free. Thanks Gmail!
When I’m replying to someone it all falls apart. The signature is...
“On Tuesday, Foursquare is announcing a partnership with Zagat, the...”
– Foursquare Signs a Deal With Zagat - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Go FourSquare! Though not as interesting as the deal with Bravo.
Adaptation
This is in the top five of “stuff smart people said thoughtfully about the iPad”
lonelysandwich:
A day after iPad launch, I climbed on my self-publishing platform and declared that those of us excited about the New Thing were correct and exalted in being so, and that those who weren’t were wrong and big meanies. A friend, Nick Douglas got on his self-publishing platform, declared...
CSS problem - possible solution →
via @chriscoyier
The proposed problem was centering the final line of a justified paragraph (see link).
One option is to wrap that final line in a span with style=”display:block;text-align:center”. This solves the problem. But introduces another: scalability.
I am sure you could write a jquery function to parse through a paragraph and isolate the last, say, four words and wrap them...
