This month
CALL FOR ACTION: THE OPEN WEB NEEDS YOU *NOW* - <Glazblog/>
Haenyo – The Indomitable Diving Grandmas of Jeju Island ~ Kuriositas
They call themselves haenyo (pronounced hen-yuh), which literally means sea women and the whistling sound they made preceding their exit from the depths is called sumbisori. They are representative of a centuries old tradition, one which transformed their island in to a functioning matriarchy but a way of life which today is in danger of disappearing forever.
Roger Ballen directs Die Antwoord video | Photography | Agenda | Phaidon
How I learned to stop worrying and love REST - Mike Mayo
By following the REST style, I would have saved myself either A) having to alter my iOS code and resubmit to the store, or B) time spent researching alternate caching methods and implementing them in Rails. As it stands, my partially-RESTful API is going to cost me (and possibly the client) more time before we can call the project finished.
January 2012
Apple hit by boycott call over worker abuses in China | Technology | The Observer
Earlier this month Apple took the unusual step of releasing a list of all the firms in its worldwide supply chain as part of its 2011 audit of human rights conditions at factories where it has partnerships.However, the company's own list made for grim reading. It revealed that a staggering 62% of the 229 facilities that it was involved with were not in compliance with Apple's 60-hour maximum working week policy. Almost a third had problem with hazardous waste.Cook insisted in his email that Apple did not turn a blind eye to conditions in its supplier network. But he did warn that the firm was likely to discover more problems. "We will continue to dig deeper, and we will undoubtedly find more issues," he said.
Tim Cook, CEO actuel d'Apple, est responsable de toute la partie production depuis son arrivée en 1998. La fermeture des usines Apple : c'est Cook. La transformation d'Apple, fabricant informatique, en un bureau d'études couplé à une agence de publicité : c'est Cook. L'iPhone 4 blanc avec un an de retard : c'est encore Cook. Depuis 10 ans, Cook a joué la carte "sweatshops" et engrangé les profits ; ça commence à se voir, mais ça n'est plus un problème : l'argent est là, n'a jamais été distribué aux actionnaires, il peut s'acheter une virginité tel le mafieux versant son obole pour la restauration du presbytère.
OneSwarm
December 2011
Web accessibility myths 2011 – a call for accessibility advocates to be more business-minded
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, Mathews
There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers from all over Asia and Africa live and work there—even backpacking tourists rent rooms. In short, it is possibly the most globalized spot on the planet.
Announcing ql.io — eBay Tech Blog
ql.io – a declarative, evented, data-retrieval and aggregation gateway for HTTP APIs. Through ql.io, we want to help application developers increase engineering clock speed and improve end user experience. ql.io can reduce the number of lines of code required to call multiple HTTP APIs while simultaneously bringing down network latency and bandwidth usage in certain use cases.
November 2011
Codex » Info
Week 46: QR or not QR | Urbanscale
autorité et contexte du passage d'une informationThe call to action simply isn’t sufficient to overcome people’s lack of interest in and inclination to click on an otherwise opaque code…especially now that there are the first stirrings of a general awareness that QR malware can be used to inject malicious exploit code into one’s device.
Alex MacCaw - Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces
The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
You can call this nitpicking, but this stuff matters! This is supposed to be a canonical representation of human relationships. But it only takes five minutes of reading the existing standards to see that they're completely inadequate.
October 2011
Kern Type, the kerning game
Kern Type, the kerning game
Kern Type, the kerning game
September 2011
Urbanized: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit | Architecture Lab
Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. Over half the world’s population now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050.
August 2011
stamen design | The World by National Geographic is live
respectWe usually don't call out individual people at Stamen—we're a collaborative studio and everyone has their role to play in contributing to each project
Swarmanoid project
design, implementation and control of a novel distributed robotic system. The system will be made up of heterogeneous, dynamically connected, small autonomous robots. Collectively, these robots will form what we call a swarmanoid.
July 2011
Mobile browser stats for June and Q2 - QuirksBlog
What I call the "Front-end developer market share"WebKit 57%, Presto 23%



