Archive for December, 2009

Great Russian music blog

Monday, 28 Dec 2009

Raketa 4000

The song titles / artist names are in English; the rest of it is in Russian (in Cyrllic script). This is actually a useful feature since all I want is the download links and it’s easier to scan for them this way.

This is where I first found out about the Proxy (from Moscow) who produced arguably the best remix of 2009.

80s retro: no longer hip. 90s retro: the new hip nostalgia decade.

Monday, 28 Dec 2009

I love me some Juiceboxxx. These synths lines are like something straight out of an Ace of Base hit.

Silicon Valley is a bubble world: GigaOm on the Google/Yelp deal rumors

Monday, 21 Dec 2009

Exhibit A

I am rather confused by how anyone could rationally think that the reason that Google ought not buy Yelp is because Twitter and FourSquare will replace Yelp.
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Expensify in TechCrunch

Monday, 21 Dec 2009

The new UI I designed for Expensify.com got nice coverage over at TechCrunch.com

There’s nothing like discovering papers you wrote in college…

Monday, 14 Dec 2009

… analyzing Facebook for a Marxist cultural theory graduate seminar. Funny, now that I’ve written Facebook apps… I’m part of the culture industry? Read it »

CSS + Javascript solution to dynamically resize images while maintaining aspect ratio

Saturday, 12 Dec 2009

I couldn’t find a good script for creating thumbnails with CSS + Javascript, so I wrote one. The objective is to:

1. Center the images.
2. Resize the images to a predefined thumbnail width and height.
3. Do this on the fly to avoid server-side rendering of thumbnails.

You can check out a demo of this script live on this site in the photos section. Or live on Fotomoto’s homepage.

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