This year
Buy Cilice
by gregg
cilice was originally a garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair (a hairshirt). In more recent times the word has come to refer not to a hairshirt, but to a spiked metal belt or chain worn strapped tight around the upper thigh. Many religious orders within the Roman Catholic Church have used the cilice as a form of "corporal mortification," but in recent years it has become known as a practice of numeraries (celibate lay people) of Opus Dei, a personal prelature of the Roman Catholic Church.
2011
Sonatype Blog » Our Focus on Advancing Hudson and Making Great Software
by night.kame
Very recently, Sonatype completed significant development in the evolution of Hudson’s core architecture. The benefits of these changes include better leveraging of industry standards, increased performance and stability, and tight integration with Maven 3 that provides greater visibility into running builds. We are continuing to add engineers to our Hudson team and are working hard with the Hudson community to move much of the work we’ve done here to Java.net.
Sonatype a l'air de vouloir pourrir Hudson : enfin une véritable raison de basculer sur Jerkin'.
SVG: The best way to graph quantitative data · SimpleGeo · Developers
we wanted SVG because of its tight integration with the DOM. That’s why we decided to use d3, an svg graphing library from the creator of Polymaps, Mike Bostock.
2010
Tight Shorts | The Online Short Film Festival
by gregg
Tight Shorts is looking to find high quality narrative based short-short films .
Everyone likes to see nice, tight, well made shorts! ; )
Renting Out Tokyo's Tight Spaces - WSJ.com
In Tokyo, where every sliver of land is at a premium, a few feet of unused private property near the front entrance of an apartment building can be used to sell muffins. A patch of storefront space transforms into an ad hoc vegetable stand for a farmer or a consulting space for a fortune-teller.
BLDGBLOG: Book Tower
The house's transparent polycarbonate cladding, used to "expose the interactions" of the building elements, makes the house function like "a structural X-ray," we read in a recent issue of Mark Magazine.
Tight quarters, a tight budget and further restrictions—including a height limit and required setbacks—navigated the architects toward their design solution: a 54-square-meter trapezoid perched above the existing structure on steel stilts, topped by a roof deck with views in all directions.
2009
Portfolio and Resume Builder - Krop - Design Jobs: Creative & Tech
by sbrothier
Hosted Portfolio View screenshot
The new industry standard for online portfolios. Spend your energy promoting your portfolio, not building it!
Resume Builder View Screenshot
Throw that word template from 1992 away! Built on a tight grid with PDF export for the suits. Searched by top creative companies.
kdekorte - Gnome MPlayer
by tadeufilippini
GNOME MPlayer is a simple GUI for MPlayer. It is intended to be a nice tight player and provide a simple and clean interface to MPlayer. GNOME MPlayer has a rich API that is exposed via DBus. Using DBus you can control a single or multiple instances of GNOME MPlayer from a single command.
The player can be used to play media on websites when used with Gecko Mediaplayer
Gnome MPlayer is not highly dependent on the Gnome libraries, the look and feel of the application is based on the Gnome HIG. The main dependency is on GTK2, GLIB2 and DBUS.
Browser Integration
To set GNOME MPlayer as the default player for mms and rtsp protocols in Mozilla/Firefox add this to your prefs.js file
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mms", "/usr/bin/gnome-mplayer");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.rtsp", "/usr/bin/gnome-mplayer");
Or open the "about:config" location and create new string settings with the above values.
gnome-mplayer in playlist mode, with several ogg and mp3 files loaded.
YouTube - miniature city 2 -featuring vividblaze "tight rope (floor mix)"-
by fastclemmy (via)
Awesome japanese video with a nice tiltshifting effect.
Top 7 recession busting deals
by sar420
With tight wallets and tighter budgets, its not a good feeling to sit at home and bemoan the state of the economy and the job losses. We should rather take up the opportunities offered by the recession before its too late!
Bain & Company: "Retaining car buyers: service with a smile" < Publications
by irols
With the latest numbers showing Indian car sales falling close to 7 percent in October, the third drop in four months, auto makers are wondering how to attract new buyers. That won't be easy as tight credit, increasingly thrifty consumers and a slowing Indian economy continue to hit demand, forcing some car manufacturers to cut production .
Crammed / Staff Benda Bilili 'Très Très Fort'
by fotopol
ensemble congolais
Four senior singer/guitarists sitting on tricycles, occasionally dancing on the floor of the stage, arms raised in joyful supplication, are the core or the band, backed by a younger, all-acoustic rhythm section pounding out tight beats. Over the top of this are weird, infectious guitar-like solos performed by a 17 year-old prodigy on a one-string electric lute he designed and built himself out of a tin can.
2008
Modest Maps
by camel & 4 others
Modest Maps is a BSD-licensed display and interaction library for tile-based maps in Flash (ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0) and Python.
Our intent is to provide a minimal, extensible, customizable, and free display library for discriminating designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects. Modest Maps provides a core set of features in a tight, clean package, with plenty of hooks for additional functionality.
TOO OLD TO ROCK 'N' ROLL TOO YOUNG TO DIE Lyrics - JETHRO TULL
by tadeufilippini
Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll Too Young To Die lyrics
The old Rocker wore his hair too long,
wore his trouser cuffs too tight.
Unfashionable to the end --- drank his ale too light.
Death's head belt buckle --- yesterday's dreams ---
the transport caf' prophet of doom.
Ringing no change in his double-sewn seams
in his post-war-babe gloom.
Now he's too old to Rock'n'Roll but he's too young to die.
He once owned a Harley Davidson and a Triumph Bonneville.
Counted his friends in burned-out spark plugs
and prays that he always will.
But he's the last of the blue blood greaser boys
all of his mates are doing time:
married with three kids up by the ring road
sold their souls straight down the line.
And some of them own little sports cars
and meet at the tennis club do's.
For drinks on a Sunday --- work on Monday.
They've thrown away their blue suede shoes.
Now they're too old to Rock'n'Roll and they're too young to die.
So the old Rocker gets out his bike
to make a ton before he takes his leave.
Up on the A1 by Scotch Corner
just like it used to be.
And as he flies --- tears in his eyes ---
his wind-whipped words echo the final take
and he hits the trunk road doing around 120
with no room left to brake.
And he was too old to Rock'n'Roll but he was too young to die.
No, you're never too old to Rock'n'Roll if you're too young to die.
Ideas and Trends - For New Journalists, All Bets, but Not Mikes, Are Off - NYTimes.com
by filloux
For New Journalists, All Bets, but Not Mikes, Are Off
By JACQUES STEINBERG
Published: June 8, 2008
A 61-year-old woman elbows her 5-foot-2-inch frame to the front of the crowd mobbing Bill Clinton after a campaign event in South Dakota. As Mr. Clinton shakes her hand and holds it tight, she deftly draws him into a response to an article on the Vanity Fair Web site that examines his post-presidential life. “Sleazy” and “slimy” are among the words that issue from the former president’s mouth. Within hours, audio of the three-minute exchange — including the woman’s description of the article as a “hatchet job,” and Mr. Clinton’s description of Todd Purdum, the author and a former reporter for The New York Times, as “dishonest” — is available for the world to hear on the Huffington Post Web site.
OLD PHOTOS of JAPAN: Woman Carrying Charcoal 1890s
The men may be said to wear nothing. Few of the women wear anything but a short petticoat wound tightly round them, or blue cotton trousers very tight in the legs and baggy at the top, with a blue cotton garment open to the waist tucked into the band, and a blue cotton handkerchief knotted round the head. From the dress no notion of the sex of the wearer could be gained, nor from the faces, if it were not for the shaven eyebrows and black teeth.
compfight / a flickr™ search tool
by sbrothier & 8 others
Tags vs Text.
Tags are keywords. If your "tags only" results are weak use less words or use "all text" to rummage through titles and descriptions.
Tab Me
Turn your popups on. Safari users can hold the "command" key when clicking thumbnails to invoke tabbing. Tabbing is tight.
Blue Bars
Bars indicate flickr™ is holding an original. Lingering your cursor over a bar will display the pixel dimensions.
Creative Commons
Checking this box restricts your search to the Creative Commons library. Use the "commercial" setting to hunt for commercially usable assets.
Seek Original
If you want nothing but blue bars change the Seek Original switch to "only." Turn the feature completely off when you intend to wander around flickr™.
Safe Search
Do not disable the Safe Search unless you're of legal age, in a legal country, promise not to tell your mom, etc.
About
Fashioned by Ryan & Bryan with glue sticks and rubber bands. They love advertising. Direct only good things to: hello@compfight.com.
Legal
Compfight is not affiliated with flickr™ but makes good use of the flickr™ API. Always double check your CC license(s) before use. Please respect the rights of all content creators. Godspeed. © 2008 Compfight
YouTube - boyinstatic's Channel
by oqdbpo
Boy In Static is Boston's Alexander Chen, a self-taught musician, singer/songwriter and graphic artist. Beginning his recording career with a three-song demo and a game of email tag with the Notwist's Alien Transistor label, Boy In Static's first album, Newborn, was released in 2005 after the two sides finally met at a Boston area concert. An amply proficient musician, Chen is able to play numerous instruments as well as arrange the live recordings he produces with a tight-knit group of musical collaborators. With a sound that ranges from the wall-of-sound aesthetic of Creation's heyday to the electronic pop of Morr Music, Boy In Static's music finds a comfortable balance between processed sounds and timeless songwriting.
The Auteurs’ Notebook
by sbrothier
With a tight group of opinionated columnists, reviewers and interviewers, The Auteurs delivers the best in film.
Flow : FTP Done Right
by sbrothier & 3 others (via)
Think of Flow as the BMW of Mac file transfer clients. Smart, strong, and beautiful.
Flow supports FTP, SFTP, .Mac, WebDAV, and Local connections.
By leveraging the power of today's broadband connections with high-concurrency transfers, astoundingly low between-transfer latency, and a robust editor, Flow delivers unbeatable performance and value in one lean, tight, and beautiful package.
2007
Strategy Letter VI - Joel on Software
by mbertier, 1 comment (via)
The developers who put a lot of effort into optimizing things and making them tight and fast will wake up to discover that effort was, more or less, wasted, or, at the very least, you could say that it “conferred no long term competitive advantage,” if you’re the kind of person who talks like an economist.
The FontFeed » Extra Bold to Ultra Black: Hit Hard with Heavy Duty Type
by sbrothier & 1 other
In an effort to get noticed, a lot of folks turn to the most obvious item in their font menu: Impact™. In concept, it plays the role well. It is heavy and condensed, yet still legible, with short descenders that enable the user to stack headlines big and tight. The problem: overuse. No matter how loud it looks, a typeface can only shout so many times before it loses its voice.
Fortunately, when a powerful vehicle is needed to carry an important message, there are plenty of capable, but less obvious typefaces for the job. Have a look at our Extra Bold newsletter and see more heavy duty headline options in the list below.
In pursuit of code quality: Beware the tight couple!
by BlueVoodoo
You know tight coupling is bad news and you really want to avoid it in your designs -- but the question is how. Learn how to recognize a tightly coupled system and then disentangle it using the Dependency Inversion Principle.
