Dontcom: Archive

Oct 29th

Last.fm’s Playground →

This site tracks which artists/tracks were most frequently removed by the last.fm community from their scrobbles. (via kottke)

Oct 29th

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Rives tells a story of mixed emoticons | Video on TED.com. A great story told using emoticons. o}-

Oct 29th

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The Simpsons Spoof The Mad Men Intro, from this years annual halloween special. (via coudal)

Oct 29th

“I think that is in a large part due to the quality of the speech synthesiser,...”

– Stephen Hawking writes about his disability: Motor Neurone Disease & Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Oct 28th

Cursebird: What the f#@! is everyone swearing... →

my favorite: fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you

Oct 28th

“Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The...”

– Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004

Oct 28th

Oct 27th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-26) →

Noah and the Whale The Ruby Suns The Mars Volta Black Mountain The Mountain Goats Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 25th

hypetape →

This is a muxtape/hype machine mashup. You can create and share mixtapes containing tracks other people have been taking about from around the internets. Very fucken awesome!

Oct 23rd

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Oct 23rd

M A X K E R N I N G →

Not quite sure what this is about other than, of course, good type. (via danhay)

Oct 22nd

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Action Method Online →

Action Method is new project management tool created by the Behance Network. Much like the rest of their products this one looks awesome. I will trial it to see if it’s worth the effort.

Oct 22nd

Oct 21st

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Dessler - Jewish take on Dexter’s morning routine on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Oct 21st

Oct 20th

Huffduffer →

“I’ve been thinking about maybe putting together a podcast — just an RSS feed — that points to interesting inspirational talks, sort of like Jon’s Found Sounds podcasts but for spoken word instead of music.” via adactio

Oct 20th

“What I’m saying to all the Designers that love producing...”

– Please turn your speakers OFF and turn your brains ON ~ Ten Thousand Things via kris

Oct 20th

Oct 19th

Engulf Me →

A new Open Tape mix tape I’ve just uploaded. Enjoy!

Oct 19th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-19) →

Archers of Loaf The Walkmen Beck Blind Pilot The National Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 19th

Oct 16th

Wilson Miner →

Not the biggest fan of green but what makes this site interesting is that it uses a new CSS3 feature - RGBA colours. A = alpha. Not only that but the grid is awesome! A definite homage to good ole Josef Müller Brockmann (via simplebits)

Oct 16th

Oct 15th

web.without.words →

Each week a popular website is graphically reconstructed by removing all words and images and replacing them with blocks ala wireframing. Very cool idea and very very awesome looking! via swissmiss

Oct 15th

“If you’re not into the idea of your domain being indexed and archived somewhere...”

– Mike writes a little rant about the whole NZ “Web Harvest” debacle. Just fucken respect robot.txt!

Oct 14th

“Observing these tests was more than a bit frustrating for the Yahoo! OpenID...”

– Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research. And it’s exactly what you’d expect. Your average Yahoo! user has no fucken idea what OpenID is nor how to use it. There is still a large amount to do on OpenID UX.

Oct 14th

“A recession means technologists cease to be paid vast amounts to duplicate the...”

– Nat Torkington weighs on the Effect of the Depression on Technology

Oct 13th

Muxtape remembers darren131 →

Muxtape now allows you to at least see your (or anyone else’s) old mixes. Here are my other two. Soon I’m going to move these over to Dontcom Music.

Oct 12th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-12) →

Rage Against the Machine Godessa Sigur Rós The Decemberists Paul Simon Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 12th

Oct 9th

Watch

The Remnants (preview) on Vimeo

Oct 9th

Oct 8th

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Oct 8th

Mark Simonson Studio / Notebook: Mad Men, Mad... →

Mark Simonson gives an in-depth analysis of the typography used in Mad Men

Oct 8th

Scroll Magazine →

A new Print/PDF/Web magazine about all things web (user experience design, web design, web development, information architecture, accessibility and more) produced by the ever awesome Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp (you know the Web Directions people)

Oct 7th