• Taplynx: Case Study: All Things Digital
  Another way to move web content to a native iPhone app using TapLynx.
• Nieman Journalism Lab: An iPhone app developer’s diary, and some thoughts on Android
  A behind-the-scenes look at moving web content to a native iPhone app.
• Health Month
  This looks like a fun way to turn dieting/exercise into a social game. It's the latest from Buster Benson.

This is a great industrial film by Jam Handy for Hamilton Watch Company in 1949. It explains the mechanics of a wind-up watch. If they were making it today they might call it F*cking Watches, How Do They Work? [via Hodinkee]

• The Oatmeal: This is how I feel about buying apps
  Me too! I spent my money on hardware up-front, dammit. Don't nickel and dime me to death with software. (Yes, I know it's irrational.)
• Lanyrd: the social conference directory
  Fun new application by Simon Willison for finding conferences your Twitter contacts are attending. Nice design and use of Twitter oAuth.

• Dirpy
  Turn YouTube videos into MP3s, with options to add title, track, and artist info before you download. [via waxy]
• FLUD - the Modern and Sexy News Ecosystem
  Nice image-based feed reader for the iPad. [via uncrate]
• welcome to optimism: A short rant about games, play and storytelling
  The ad folks at W+K are thinking hard about games. [via migurski]

• The Long Now: Jesse Schell : Visions of the Gamepocalypse
  Schell expands on his Gamepocalypse idea presented at the end of his DICE talk earlier this year. He makes dozens of predictions that all seem plausible, creepy, and somewhat fun.

It's a few years old now, but this is great advice from Jay Smooth about keeping behavior and being separate in arguments. This advice doesn't just apply to conversations about race, I think it's good to keep in mind for any disagreement. I found this via an excellent comment by jessamyn in a thread at Ask MetaFilter about dealing with difficult people: Help us deal with our black sheep Meetup member. Lots of good advice in the thread too.

• Auto detect a time zone with JavaScript
  Clever method of detecting a user's timezone without IP tables.

Jesse and Adam are back again talking about the benefits of dressing well for work with Paul Feig. It's relaxed and funny. They also added a great new segment with the blogger behind Nerd Boyfriend where she dissects a classic look and finds modern versions of the clothes. More nice work from Put This On.

• Pictory
  Beautiful photo galleries powered by user submissions.

• Flickr: Me and pb in my sloppy home office
  Matt was profiled in the McMInnville paper. I snuck into the picture somehow.
• image soak
  Images from around the Web. Looks like a fun way to browse, but I wish the images were a bit bigger.

I'm not much of a gamer, but I have been enjoying The Incident by Neven Mrgan and Matt Comi on my iPhone. Here's what it looks like:



Nothing too complicated. There's falling stuff that you tilt the phone to avoid, and a great 8-bit soundtrack. Seeing all of the pixelated junk they designed is half the fun.

I don't have an XBox, but this atmospheric game called Limbo looks like another fun design experience. It's the first console game I've seen in a while that I'd like to play:



(I found this last trailer via the consistently excellent video site Devour. Check it out if you haven't seen it. Looks great on an iPad.)

• Unsuck It
  Turn terrible business jargon into plain English.

• A Book Apart: HTML5 For Web Designers
  I'm enjoying this book by Jeremy Keith. The book itself is nicely designed too.
• Nettuts+: 25 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know
  Nice list with concise summaries of some major features of HTML5. [via mathowie]

• GroveMade: Laser Engraved iPhone Case
  Awesome intricate bamboo iPhone case. [via Hey Stuff]
• Steidl: The Ruins of Detroit
  Glossy photo book of urban decay in Detroit.

• ioannis cherouvim: Simple DoS protection with mod_security
  A simple way to set up a mod_evasive style defense with the more popular mod_security.
• Jonathan Zdziarski's Domain: mod_evasive
  "mod_evasive is an evasive maneuvers module for Apache to provide evasive action in the event of an HTTP DoS or DDoS attack or brute force attack." Filed for (hopefully) non-use.

• Hey Stuff!: 10 Gorgeous Board Books
  Nice list of board books for kids to revisit.
• EffectGames.com: Old School Color Cycling with HTML5
  "This demo is an implementation of a full 8-bit color cycling engine, rendered into an HTML5 Canvas in real-time." Nice look at the lost video game art of color cycling to show movement.
• Ten Laws to Design By
  Great list of design laws to keep in mind. Seems that users are waging a constant battle against Hick's Law. [via glass]

• Gamma error in picture scaling
  "There is an error in most photography scaling algorithms." Wha? This is hard to believe.
• Aaron Swartz: The Political Philosophy of Toy Story 3
  I think we're safely out of spoiler territory now so I can post this great analysis of Toy Story 3.
• Neven Mrgan: Cow Clicker Satire
  Neven Mrgan has a great point: when a satire gets too close to the subject it's taking down is it still satire?
• Weird Fantasy Covers
  Great 50's comic art.
• World's Easiest Ice Cream Recipe
  Frozen bananas in a food processor = ice cream? I need to try this!
• 41Latitude - An Open Letter to Rand McNally
  Great idea, I'd use them.

• CSS Opacity: A Comprehensive Reference
  Nice quick tutorial about CSS opacity in Safari/Firefox and workarounds for IE.

A couple months ago I posted that I wanted an Image Reader for the iPad. I've found the next best thing that meets almost everything on my wish list: Reeder for iPad. It is the best $5 I've spent on the iPad so far. Here's a look:



As you can see: minimal interface with a few buttons along the side and top. You tap those arrows to go forward/back, and there's seamless integration with Google Reader for favoriting and sharing. I also use the iPhone version of Reeder and the iPad version is even better. There's less reporting on what Reeder is doing in the background, so I think more about what I'm reading and less about what I'm using to read.

I'd still like a way to strip away even text and interact with the images on their own at full screen, but this is so close to perfect that I won't complain.

• Golden Age Comic Book Stories: The Conquest of Space
  Images of the future I'm supposed to be living in! Manned space flight art by Chesley Bonestell in the 50's.
• Santa Art Magazine
  Brazilian visual arts magazine. You can read them here in a Flash reader.
• The Unlikely Fan: THE WORLD CUP, TRANSLATED INTO AMERICAN
  Nice way of summarizing the stories of the World Cup teams by finding similar American sports stories/teams.

• YouTube - Airplane! vs. Zero Hour!
  Impossible! I had no idea Airplane! was based on an earlier movie. This video shows where the dialog overlaps between the two.
• Emptyage: An open letter to Steve Jobs
  "Yet despite all the innovations in the iPhone 4, without basic telephony service it’s just a piece of shit." Matt Honan succinctly sums up Apple's AT&T problem. The frustrating part is that it's potentially solvable by opening things up to other carriers.
• Subtraction.com: Better Screen, Same Typography
  "Building a great display for typography without building great typographic tools is a dereliction of duty." I've been noticing this too especially on the iPad's potentially gorgeous display. The app-makers, including Apple, just don't seem to care. [via jessamyn]

• Ryan Carver Photography
  Zen medium format photos by Ryan Carver. Nice to see his photos outside of Flickr. [via mathowie]
• How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit
  Danny Sullivan on the unhappy relationship/different norms between blogs and the mainstream media. [via mneznanski]
• County Sin Rankings
  This site uses open health and crime data to rank your county on the seven deadly sins. [via anil]
• Chris Faust: Night Scenes
  Love these long exposure night landscapes--uniquely Midwestern.

• Matt Haughey at Gel 2010 on Vimeo
  Matt told some MetaFitler stories at GEL this year in a great talk about unconventional community lessons.

• You Look Nice Today: The Magic Number
  The jokes were strong at MaxFunCon. Churchill strong.
• nullVision: Mac OS X SSD tweaks
  "Most of these tweaks, besides providing for a longer lifespan for SSD disks, should improve overall system performance even on an non SSD disk."

• dpreview: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 Review
  More GF1 data. Want.
• Panasonic Lumix GF1 Field Test
  Currently lusting after this camera. Looks like the perfect combination of size and quality.