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Ethereal Cereal

The occasional scrapbook of Brian McAllister, an Irish-born web developer currently coding in Lyon, France…

The Power of Word in Outlook?

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Ben Ward responds to the Microsoft Office Outlook team’s gibberish and convoluted “The Power of Word in Outlook” post.

He goes on to say that “There is no widely-recognized consensus in the industry about what subset of HTML is appropriate for use in e-mail for interoperability” – this is presented in bold using a <b> element, but we’ll assume he intended <strong>.

Prepare to laugh – a lot. # ~ (0) 01·07·09

Anonymous Pro

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Mark simonson has released Anonymous Pro, a fixed with sans designed especially for coders. It comes as four copyrighted freeware fonts for MacOS and Windows. Nice. # ~ (0) 12·06·09

A Harsh CSS Environment for Testing Widgets

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Gabriel Weinberg has developed a CSS reset especially for widgits: A Harsh CSS Environment for Testing Widgets. # ~ (0) 11·06·09

Balmorhea - "Remembrance"

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The video for Balmorhea – “Remembrance” is really quite nice indeed…

The new album is most certainly recommended. # ~ (0) 09·06·09

Joey Beltram: Energy Flash

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I don’t know why exactly but Joey Beltram’s “energy flash“ has been playing in my head all day – even after almost 20 years, that bassline is still as badass as ever (and I was always a sucker for the 303). # ~ (0) 05·06·09

WTF's/Minute

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The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/Minute:

Copyright © 2008 Focus Shift

Via leedumond… # ~ (0) 29·05·09

Grabarz & Partner

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Yet another “website with a desktop-like interface” but this time it’s exceedingly well done – Grabarz & Partner. The copywriting throughout is ace. Also, choose English as the desired language when presented with the first dialog box (if you don’t speak German that is)... # ~ (0) 25·05·09

Fever Crumb

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Hurrah – Philip Reeve has written a prequel to the “Mortal Engines Quartet“. It’s called “Fever Crumb” and is set a generation before the events of the quartet.

I mean, how can you not like a book that starts with the following:

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea

I just have to wait for Amazon and La Poste to do their thing and send me the book… # ~ (0) 20·05·09

Raspberry buttermilk cake

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Yum, SmittenKitchen has a really nice recipe for “raspberry-buttermilk cake“ that shall be made and consumed this weekend… # ~ (0) 20·05·09

http://catfishsmooth.net/

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Just found the catfishsmooth site (via wait till I come) and it’s just fantastic at stripping all of the mySpace shit away from mySpace… Try it and see! # ~ (0) 14·05·09

Opentape

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Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web. # ~ (0) 07·05·09

Natalie Portman Sits Between Two Ferns

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I fucking love Zach Galifianakis – especially when he’s interviewing Natalie Portman in a rather creepy, stalkerish way… # ~ (0) 07·05·09

Updated tableActions script

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Just a quick note to say I’ve updated the unobtrusive table actions script with some dandy new features. That is all… # ~ (0) 22·04·09

Inline Multiscale Image Replacement

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Inline Multiscale Image Replacement – a system to “improve the publication and viewing of high-resolution images on the web”. Looks very promising but the U.I needs to be more apparent… # ~ (1) 22·04·09

Message to Bears: Departures

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One of my favourite folkers “Message to Bears” has put his first full-length album, “Departures”, up for preorder – limited to 500 copies worldwide.

Copyright: Message to Bears

Last years E.P. made it into my top ten list of the best of 2008 and I imagine the new album will make the inevitable 2009 list.

Trust me, this is a “must have” item. Dead Pilot Records produces the goods once again… # ~ (0) 20·04·09

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