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suicideblonde:

bohemea:

Let the Right One In

Reminded me that Let The Right One In is a fucking great film. If you haven’t watched it yet, you totally should!

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Indeed…

I’d happily watch anything that has Omar in it. Especially if he’s going to kick some arse!

This is a promo shot for the upcoming HBO show, Boardwalk Empire which airs on 19th September. (via putthison)

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And here is Janelle Monáe performing Tightrope on David Letterman. Giving it the full James Brown treatment. So rad!

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Janelle Monáe - Tightrope [feat. Big Boi] (Video)

Wow! She can wail & she has some killer moves. James Brown love child?

The Wilderness Downtown

Google and B-Real teamed up with the Arcade Fire to make this HTML5 interactive music video for their song We Used To Wait. It uses a combination of video, audio and canvas to produce a pretty rad little interactive experience… And only using open technology. You can read more about it here.

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krislane:

A music blog for people who don’t have time for music blogs.

Thanks Tim

That + this = awesome.

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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Bill Withers Live At Carnegie Hall - I Can’t Write Left-Handed is is possibly the best live recording ever.

I’ve transcribed his monologue before the song:

We recorded this song on october the 6th, since then the war has been declared over. If you’re like me you’re remember it like anyone remembers any war: one big drag. A lot of people write songs about wars and government, various social things. But I think about young guys who where like I was when I was young. I had no more idea about any government or political things or anything. And I think about those kinda young guys now, who all of a sudden—somebody comes up, and they’re very law abiding, so if somebody says go they don’t ask any questions, they just go. And I can remember not too long ago seeing a young guy with his right arm gone—Just got back—and I asked him how he was doing. He said he was doing alright now but he had thought he was going to die. He said getting shot at didn’t bother him, it was getting shot that shook him up. And I tried to put myself in his position. Maybe he cried, maybe he said… I can’t write left handed…

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HTML5 Detail

The details and the summary elements are new. And they’re awesome. I’m jotting this down so I can remember (and also you can help me with the jQuery, cos it’s buggy.) I’ve written a bit of HTML/CSS and jQuery which allows for show/hide behaviour the the above mentioned elements. The details element has one attribute: open. Consider the following HTML and CSS:

<details>
  <summary>Info</summary>
  <div>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
    adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt
    ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</p>
  </div>
</details>

<style>
details :nth-child(2) {
  display: none;
}

details[open] :nth-child(2) {
  display: block;
}
</style>

And here’s my jQuery that needs help.

(function ($) {
  $.fn.detailToggle = function() {
    this.each( function() {
      $(this).bind('click', function() {
        if ( $(this).parent().attr("open") ) {
          $(this).parent().removeAttr("open");
        } else {
          $(this).parent().attr("open","open");
        }
      });
    });
  };
})(jQuery);

I would have thought that plugin along with the CSS above would have done the trick…but it only works in Firefox… Can anyone give me some ideas?

Google Maps without the maps… (via kottke)

"Quote your attribute values unless you’re a rockstar. Always declare a charset, even if you’re a rockstar. Keep your trailing slashes if you like. Validation is still cool…"

HTML5 Peeks, Pokes and Pointers