ledlogic: 12/2011

Dec 27, 2011

Interesting take on the butter/margarine history

This morning I came across this well-written historical analysis.

Dec 25, 2011

TIL the Millennium Falcon was in Episode III

Dec 24, 2011

Foster the People Vids

Call it what you want

Call it what you want live

The lead singer looks like Craig Kratcha

Pumped up kicks

Warrant

Dec 21, 2011

New Font for 2012 Development

I saw this when looking for a new favorite, fixed width font. Seems very rounded and square, with a little retro nostalgia for 1980s computers.

seekingprofont

These are the lessons I've learned so far with CoffeeScript.

1. JCoffeeScript works well in a Java environment.

2. If you are using eclipse, make a shortcut key (I use all the control + w), to show/hide whitespace.

3. Make sure if you cut and paste code, you consistentize it -> I prefer switching all spaces to tabs. Coffeescript indentation is based on the quantity of whitespace, not the type, so what appears as a 4 char tab really is just one whitespace to CS. Keep them all in a row.

4. I don't really have a good plugin yet for eclipse to understand coffee script.

Dec 17, 2011

1989 - Transvision Vamp

Dec 16, 2011

OOCSS Article

This article, OOCSS, does take CSS to a place I've been trying to get to. I like to that the author refutes the idea that ids have no place in CSS. CSSLint, however lists that in its rules.

What inspires you?

What do you look to for inspiration in UI?

de stijl design

Russian Konstructivism

Macintosh User Interface Guidelines

LukeW

a list apart

smashing

Classic Apple plugins

Lawson Self Evident Applications

Fireworks

Sony Vegas

Mazda 6 interface

Northfield, MN campuses

Western Wisconsin geography

Lego space kit instructions

Apple Packaging

HP Calculators

Make Magazine

Le Corbusier

Kiss Principle

Knockout JS website

Bubblegum Crisis

Cricket Graph

Mac Keyboard Lighting

So no Veto then, Obama?

The branches of the US Government should be following. Due Process, the Geneva Convention, no indefinite and arbitrary detention, but instead Obama signs this bill, in a battle over Executive or Congressional power of arbitrary detention instead of the debate, which believers in rights, freedom and the Bill of Rights want is that there should not be indefinite and arbitrary detention. In creating is the same rights-less environment that despotic regimes exhibited, every country with detainees held, uncharged, without due process of law will have their own MIA/POW flags representing their nationals held by the USA (though not necessarily in the USA).

It's also alarming how many of the steps enumerated by Naomi Wolf are already checked off her list/blueprint for turning a democracy into a dictatorship. The only hope now is a rights-respecting congress removes the provision in a future bill (not likely except for a few intellectually strong individuals), or the Supreme Court gets to decide the Constitutionality. Specifically, the Sixth Amendment is of concern here:

"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense."

Which makes no distinction of citizenry, the form of accusation, etc.