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24 Famous Fonts You Can Download for Free
Whether you're drafting an homage or a parody, nothing clinches a concept like the perfect font. Many brands, movies and entertainment properties utilize custom typography, but the web has gone to great lengths to capture the art of these letters. The results are impressive, and often free for non-commercial use.
CSS3 Gradient Buttons
Last week I talked about Cross-Browser CSS Gradient. Today I'm going to show you how to put the CSS gradient feature in a good practical use. Check out my demo to see a set of gradient buttons that I have created with just CSS (no image or Javascript). The buttons are scalable based on the font-size. The button size can be easily adjusted by changing the padding and font-size values. The best part about this method is it can be applied to any HTML element such as div, span, p, a, button, input, etc.
Digital Engagement Framework : Designing a digital strategy for your organisation
The Digital engagement framework helps you identify the value creation opportunities of digital engagement for your organisation and develop the strategies, processes and technologies to structurally engage your audience to maximize your co-created value. The Digital engagement framework is developed in close cooperation with professionals in a variety of industries, including consumer services, gaming, leisure and culture & heritage, where the framework was initially launched. Currently, it’s in use in 100s of organisations around the world.
Allow Users To Submit To Your WordPress Site: A Quotes Plugin | Wptuts+
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a plugin that allows users to submit form data. You’ll also learn about security by using nonces.
Trovebox - All your photos from Facebook, Instagram and Flickr in one place
Trovebox makes it easy to keep all your photos from multiple sites, devices and even people together in one place.
Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for Bootstrap
Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized — size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS.
19 Wonderful Vintage School Library Posters
These imaginative posters from the 1960s encouraged kids to (gasp!) explore the library.
Spoke - BlueHost.com
Spoke offers simple, user-friendly web hosting for students and faculty. What is web-hosting? It's setting up an account that lets you build a place to put things online—a portfolio, your new cooking journal, a place to sell your cat-sized bow-ties, whatever.
WordPress › User Role Editor « WordPress Plugins
User Role Editor WordPress plugin makes the role capabilities changing easy. You can change any standard WordPress user role.
Transom » Walking Across America: Advice for a Young Man
It’s rare we take the time to listen to hour-long radio stories anymore, but I hope you’ll listen to this one, maybe twice. It’s an epic journey, a coming of age story, and a portrait of this country–big-hearted, wild, innocent, and wise. I co-produced it, but the credit goes to Andrew Forsthoefel, a first-time radio producer, who set out at age 23 to walk across America, East to West, 4000 miles, with a sign on him that said, “Walking to Listen.” Eventually, he showed up here in Woods Hole.Andrew didn’t intend to make a radio story–he just wanted to listen to people. You’ll hear in Andrew’s interviews his quality of attention. He is a magnet for stories and for the desire to connect.
Hypnotic gifs show animated photos of animals and objects
You wouldn't think bunnies twitching their noses or a cat playing pingpong could be so hypnotic. We can't stop looking at them — there's something about the repetition in the way those dogs run on the treadmill, or Carlton from "The Fresh Prince" does his dance over and over again in these hypnotic gifs. In fact, we're starting to feel sleepy. Veeery sleeepy. Is there anything we can do for you? Now would be the time to ask.
hitRECord
Writers, musicians, illustrators, photographers, video editors — artists of all kinds are invited to contribute their work to hitRECord. Once on the site, the hitRECord community collaboratively edits, builds upon, develops and remixes each others work to create songs, animation, short films, live shows, music videos — you name it!
A Short Animated History of the GIF | Open Culture
In 1987, Compuserve begatteth Image Format 87A. Image Format 87A begatteth Graphics Interchange Format or GIF (rhymes with a certain brand of peanut butter, the video history above helpfully points out). The proliferations of free online GIF generators begatteth the countless annoying, smarmy, boneheaded animated loops you’ve seen junking up emails, profile pictures, and MySpace pages. Of course, some of them are also pretty cool, which is why they’re being celebrated with a festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. No tickets necessary. Moving the Still: A GIF Festival will be screening through June on the outdoor electronic billboard meant to promote upcoming and current attractions.
Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm | Which Way L.A.?
On test day for my Behavioral Ecology class at UCLA, I walked into the classroom bearing an impossibly difficult exam. Rather than being neatly arranged in alternate rows with pen or pencil in hand, my students sat in one tight group, with notes and books and laptops open and available. They were poised to share each other’s thoughts and to copy the best answers. As I distributed the tests, the students began to talk and write. All of this would normally be called cheating. But it was completely okay by me. Who in their right mind would condone and encourage cheating among UCLA juniors and seniors? Perhaps someone with the idea that concepts in animal behavior can be taught by making their students live those concepts.
Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction
We know that our readers are distracted and sometimes even overwhelmed by the myriad distractions that lie one click away on the Internet, but of course writers face the same glorious problem: the delirious world of information and communication and community that lurks behind your screen, one alt-tab away from your word-processor.
Pop Chart Lab — A Visual Compendium of Cameras
A meticulously illustrated catalog of 100 landmark cameras, culled from over a century of photographic history, depicting both professional and consumer models and tracing photography's history from the first models to today's digital wonders.
Common Place Books | Yardworks
My research and development has focused on the history of Common Place books as a direct relationship to popular culture.Following my main research interests of 19th women’s social history, folk lore and the art form of puppetry. I have discovered links between the feminine practice of documenting in the 1800’s and my own continuous use of scrapbooks, journals etc.
There's No Such Thing As Offline?!? | Idea Channel | PBS - YouTube
What an outdated question this has become! Of course you're online, unless you're an off-the-grid survivalist or a remote tribesmen!! From Facebook to bank accounts, you always have some sort of online presence, whether you're actively engaging in front of a screen or not. Yet this is still a word we use to describe our engagement with the Internet. So we have to ask, is this online/offline distinction even worth making? Because we may need to re-evaluate the very word "ONLINE"...
Justified Image Grid – Premium WordPress Gallery
Justified Image Grid is the new best way to display your photos in WordPress The plugin will automatically align your images into a magazine-style responsive grid. It's flexible, works with various image sources and lightboxes and so much more!
Storyboard That
Communication is a critical part of most knowledge workers' jobs. By creating a fun tool to improve how people communicate, we strive to do the world a service and make it a better place. We truly believe that by making it easier for people to describe ideas, user flows, basic processes, and anything else they want, people will be more willing to spend the time to do it. By making the descriptions (Storyboards) so easy to consume, people will want to share them and iterate over ideas. As this increases innovation, it makes everyone happier and more productive.
The ds106 Show (Apr 16, 2013)
a keynote presentation for the 2013 TCC World Online Conference Dim the lights, cue the music, roll the open credits… but the ds106 show is not where the audience just sits quietly in their seats. You will not only learn how this open online course in digital storytelling works, but have a chance to try a few of the creative challenges and assignments we give to our students. Digital storytelling 106 (ds106) offers a versatile opportunity to create a learning community. This open online course in digital storytelling is part of a networked architecture built of participants’ own blogs to which our web site subscribes and shares back content published by individuals. Special features of ds106 include an open assignment bank that participants populate, a daily creative challenge, and even its own internet-based radio station. You can tune in to the show at any time; we are located at http://ds106.us/ on your Internet dial.
TV Fonts - TV Font Collection
This is a ollection of TV fonts, which are identical or similar to the fonts used in the titles of TV series. However, that doesn’t always mean those titles are designed using those fonts. You can click on the font name to download the font.
Stories Through Data
Stories Through Data is part of my research into Data Visualisation as a PhD student at the London College of Communication. In everyday life we experience an exponential increase in data. Data needs to be distilled into meaningful stories so people can understand them – because stories tend to be our way of organising what would otherwise be abstract information into experience, understanding and memory. With this website I'm working to understand approaches to narrative in data visualisation design. I started by developing an analysis framework for recognising basic principles (and problems) of narrative, then I began using it to analyse and codify published data visualisation work from a wide range of contexts and applications.
Storytelling: The Next Step for Visualization
Presentation and communication of data have so far played a minor role in visualization research, with most work focused on exploration and analysis. We propose that presentation, in particular using elements from storytelling, is the next logical step and should be a research focus of at least equal importance as each of the other two. Stories package information into a structure that is easily remembered, which is important in many collaborative scenarios when an analyst is not the same person as the one who makes decisions, or simply needs to share information with peers. Data visualization lends itself well to being a communication medium for storytelling, in particular when the story also contains a lot of data. We review the literature on storytelling and presentation and outline the research area.
Stories Through Data
Recently I’ve been thinking about how storytelling and data visualisation relate. There’s increased attention to storytelling in the data visualisation scene: Tapestry, the first conference specifically about storytelling in data visualisation, took place in February. The Guardian and New York times, among many other great quality newspapers, continue to make innovative work aimed at storytelling primarily through data visualisation; and recently noteworthy is Robert Kosara and Jock Mackinlay’s paper entitled ‘Storytelling: The Next Step for Visualisation‘. Part of my work is digging a little further into what storytelling is or could be in this area, what people who are doing it may assume and how stories through data come across to a reader or viewer.
Nick Diakopoulos » Storytelling with Data: What Are the Impacts on the Audience?
Storytelling with data visualization is still very much in its “Wild West” phase, with journalism outlets blazing new paths in exploring the burgeoning craft of integrating the testimony of data together with compelling narrative. Leaders such as The News York Times create impressive data-driven presentations like 512 Paths to the White House (seen above) that weave complex information into a palatable presentation. But as I look out at the kinds of meetings where data visualizers converge, like Eyeo, Tapestry, OpenVis, and the infographics summit Malofiej, I realize there’s a whole lot of inspiration out there, and some damn fine examples of great work, but I still find it hard to get a sense of direction — which way is West, which way to the promised land? And it occurred to me: We need a science of data-visualization storytelling. We need some direction. We need to know what makes a data story “work”. And what does a data story that “works” even mean?
13pt | Information Graphics
Jonathan Corum is the science graphics editor at The New York Times and founder of 13pt, an information design studio. He strives for the clear, simple presentation of complex information, with an emphasis on crisp and elegant visual explanations. He has designed more than 1,000 graphics for the Times, which have won 16 awards from the Society for News Design and 8 medals from the international Malofiej competition, including Best in Show. In 2009 the Times graphics desk received a National Design Award for communication design.
The Hieroglyph Project
Inspiration is a small but essential part of innovation, and science fiction stories have been a seminal source of inspiration for innovators over many decades. In his article entitled “Innovation Starvation,” Neal Stephenson calls for a return to inspiration in contemporary science fiction. That call resonated with so many and so deeply that Project Hieroglyph was born shortly thereafter. The name of Project Hieroglyph comes from the notion that certain iconic inventions in science fiction stories serve as modern “hieroglyphs” – Arthur Clarke’s communications satellite, Robert Heinlein’s rocket ship that lands on its fins, Issac Asimov’s robot, and so on. Jim Karkanias of Microsoft Research described hieroglyphs as simple, recognizable symbols on whose significance everyone agrees.
fog - The Ruby cloud services library
Whether you need compute, dns, storage, or a multitude of other services, fog provides an accessible entry point and facilitates cross service compatibility. Just getting started working with cloud resources? You are not alone, and having so many complicated options makes it hard to know where to start. fog delivers the knowledge of cloud experts to you, helping you to bootstrap your cloud usage and guiding you as your own expertise develops. By coding with fog from the start you avoid vendor lock-in and give yourself more flexibility to provide value. Whether you are writing a library, designing a software as a service product or just hacking on the weekend this flexibility is a huge boon.