It's an ad, but it's very nicely done.

via musicaldna.com and @jensmccabe Very interesting music visualization technique.

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via boston.com As usual, awesome photo set from TBP, showing some of the good, the bad and the superbad of 2009. Photo 39 (above) is absolutely heartbreaking. "Why isn't dad reaching back to me?"

via boingboing.net Incredible how little attention we pay to things and people around us.

Just arrived!

via youtube.com The Passenger.

I want to post a short update aimed at users of my iPhoto plugin CopperExport. I have received multiple reports of it failing in recent updates of Snow Leopard, and I have also verified personally that it does not work properly in iPhoto'09. Unfortunately, since the big move, I find myself without easy access to a Mac for development (I had a Mac at my previous job, and I use Windows at my new job), which pretty much makes fixing these bugs impossible.

via boston.com Amazing photos from TBP. I was at the Iguazu Falls many years ago, and it's a majestic and breathtaking place.

So, three weeks after our move back to Mexico, things are going well. We battled some illnesses in the beginning (we got a pretty bad cold), but we are all but recovered now, and we've been extremely busy. We are in the process of finding a place to live, moving from Mexico City (where we arrived, and where my new job started) to Queretaro (where my permanent job will be), buying a car, finding a school, and many other "

For a few weeks now, all of mine and my family's online presence and services have been running exclusively using free services. Before, we shared a rented server with some friends, and that server hosted all the services provided by all of our domains: zzamboni.org, sorianoramirez.org, newmoms.ch and virtsecurity.org. Now, with our moving to a different country and all that, we decided to eliminate the need to rent a server, and even reduce costs in the process.

via xkcd.com Amazing. The amount of work that went into these (particularly for LOTR) is staggering.

 

This was the scene last night in our cellar. It was all gone this morning.

via reflectionof.me Interesting map. I didn't know Argentina used to drive on the left side (until 1945, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic#Argentina )

via xkcd.com Scary indeed. From the alt text "I'm teaching every 8-year-old relative to say this, and every 14-year-old to do the same thing with Toy Story. Also, Pokemon hit the US over a decade ago and kids born after Aladdin came out will turn 18 next year." I feel old.

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via boston.com Beautiful set of photos from TBP

via youtube.com How very cool - using a gyroscope as an alternative to training wheels.

via vimeo.com 20-second clip of Obama photos with 130 visiting dignitaries at the UN meeting. I wonder how much time he spent practicing that smile?

via iihs.org "[They] don't build cars like they used to. They build them better." The difference in the crash results is astonishing (look at both the photos and the video).

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Welcome to Ideally Blue, my new blog about life, technology and whatever else comes to my mind. As part of the process to leave Switzerland, my wife and I decided to stop using our own self-managed server (which we have used for over two years, shared with some good friends) and move everything to "the cloud", using hosted services. This includes mainly email, which we moved to Google Apps, and several web sites and blogs, which turned out to be the complicated bit.

--Diego

One of the things I will miss from ch --Diego

via tomscott.com The solution to geek fitness problems?

Everyone would agree that usability is an important aspect of Web design. Whether you’re working on a portfolio website, online store or Web app, making your pages easy and enjoyable for your visitors to use is key. Many studies have been done over the years on various aspects of Web and interface design, and the findings are valuable in helping us improve our work. Here are 10 useful usability findings and guidelines that may help you improve the user experience on your websites.

via cabel.name Awesome edit.

Every once in a while you will come across a page that just doesn’t seem ‘right’. There are three elements of a website that can be harmed by bad practice: The website lacks something in its design. The content is written badly. The search engines don’t like something about the site. Considering the three points above, this article will explains the do’s and dont’s of certain design habits.