This video makes me happy. Looking at happy people who showed up at first test run of Shinkansen in Kyushu. They aired it day after the earthquake and it lifted spirits. All I am doing to make this video “responsive” is wrapping it in div of class=”video” that has the css rule like this: .video [...]
Had to write a quick and dirty sticky elements when scrolling using jquery for a wrok project. I always wanted to know how they did that. I think Apple had the shopping cart that followed scrolling. There are bunch of great plugins and codes available, such as Waypoints and Sticky Scroller. Mine is very simple, [...]
As I am getting more in to doing github stuff and running my machine as a development test server, I have need to have MySQL database set up and running locally, and since it requires me starting the server up every time, I figured it won’t hurt to write down what I did to set [...]
Perhaps a way, waaaay late to the party, but a year later, I heard about the “Responsive Web Design” and man, this is crazy good stuff. Very exciting. Better late than never, I guess. I feel old and very un-cutting edge. As I read more about it, I am just collecting bunch of links here. [...]
I saw this on this very well designed (and sweet) website about a couple’s wedding announcement site, but finally figured out how it was done today. Very easy and cool. The set up is simple, a website, long in vertical, with local anchor link targets (identified with ids) and anchors with # links. Better html [...]
In an article in AIGA Voice, I learned that there is a Japanese American graphic designer, who’s great work many of us are familier with. Here is the lin to the article, S. Neil Fujita, 1921�2010 by Steven Heller. And here is the link to New York Times’ obit. He designed cover of The Godfather [...]
So much to learn. So little time. I am sort of on the data vis kicks lately. Came across Data Visualization for Beginners article in Columbia Journalism Review, and saw this awesome documentary video about data visualization. I am excited about my job again! I need to brush up on my ActionScript/Flash/Flex skills, Protovis (Here [...]
HistoryShots.com have a beautiful poster prints of infographic of history of ball parks for sale at their website. $30. There is also History of the Major Leagues for $40. I want it! I am also sort of inspired to redesign my Japanese ballplayers.com website very very simple like those guys… I think it is getting [...]
I’ve been using BBEdit by Bare Bones Software for many years. It supports many different Text Encodings (i.e. EUC, ISO 2-022JP, JIS X0208, Mac OS, ShiftJIS X0213, Shift JIS, and Windows DOS variety of Japanese) but in recent years most all editos support Unicode (UTF) and “Moji bake” is not a big issue any more. [...]
David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization at TED …a kind of map, really, a sort of an information map. When you ‘re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful. — David McCandless (@2:51) Originally found this link somewhere.. I think it was on facebook or twitter.
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