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Pennies
How many pennies are in circulation today? Find out in pictures.
Disassembled Household Appliances
Eureka Carpark Melbourne
Emotional Design… presents scientific evidence that attractive thing work better. Since being happy broadens our thought processes and facilitates creative thinking, attractive products that make us happy can improve our ability to use them. In effect, they work better because we work better.
—Ambient Findability (p. 56)
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Apple Rumors
I wonder if the folks at Apple monitor the press that they get in the days leading up to a new product announcement to find ways to reduce the information leakage. There are always rumors, but they seem to be increasingly accurate as of late. I can’t imagine that Apple takes kindly to having their grand announcements spoiled, so I wonder if they debrief after an event and make plans to be more secretive next time.
Tab Switching Followup
Firefox, Safari, Camino, Adium, iChat, TextMate, Coda: ⌘{ and ⌘}
Dreamweaver CS4 beta: ⌘` (which is still wrong, that’s the shortcut for switching windows not tabs)
Ah, the joy of extensibility.
Coda wishes
The new Dreamweaver beta convinces me even more than ever before that I should switch full-time to Coda. There are just a few tiny little things I still wish Coda could do.
- Site-wide find and replace
- Along the same lines as site-wide find and replace, warn me when I delete or move a file that is linked, and offer to update links
- ⌘-D to open links
- Auto-complete character entities
Alton
When I grow up, I want to be the Alton Brown of web design. He always has something clever to say. And he knows just about everything about food.