*soupir*Sure, sure, sure, Tokyo's all steel, plastic and concrete. They don't let anything get old here; they tear it down and rebuild it all bland and sterile the moment anything approaching "charming patina" encroaches. But, but, but there are nooks and niches where old things persist. Oldie restaurants, for instance.
The first word that occurs to me is "motherlove". But perhaps a better term would be "ambient impersonal tenderness". Japan is a society shockingly full of ambient impersonal tenderness, overlapping with tender-mindedness, shading into tweeness.
"The existing floor was uneven from inaccurate construction," writes Schemata architect Jo Nagasaka, "so we poured epoxy mixed with pine ash on the floor to create a flat surface. The transparent black liquid made different shades of black, following the uneven surface on the floor. It looked like gradation of color on a gradually shoaling beach."
]]>Instant screencasts for Twitter. Now you can create screencasts for your followers as easily as you tweet. Just click the record button and you’ll have your ready-to-tweet screenca ...
Transliteration bookmarklets let you type in your language in any text box on any web site. For example, you can use the bookmarklets in Gmail chat (to chat in your language), search for Google news articles, send messages in your language on social networks, write wikipedia pages in your language, etc. The bookmarklets use the Google Transliteration API to provide transliteration support wherever you want it. Transliteration bookmarklets are supported for Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Usage Click on the appropriate link below for instructions on how to use the bookmarklets: Arabic bookmarklet Bengali bookmarklet Gujarati bookmarklet Hindi bookmarklet Kannada bookmarklet Malayalam bookmarklet Marathi bookmarklet Nepali bookmarklet Persian bookmarklet Punjabi bookmarklet Tamil bookmarklet Telugu bookmarklet Urdu bookmarklet
Free Online Screen Recorder * Register & use it anywhere, anytime No download. Compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. * Capture videos of onscreen action in one click Record screencasts, tutorials, demos, training, lectures and more. * Share and stream videos online in Flash Embed them on blogs and webpages or send them by email.
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"A Google map plotting all the best college and non-commercial radio stations using the actual GPS coordinates of their transmitters as listed in the dreaded FCC database. Right-click a station (the tower icon, not the label) to stream it directly, or left-click to see a bubble with a bunch of info including studio phone number, online archives, homepage, etc., and zoom all the way in to see the transmitter antenna."
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Examples of good login design That's what not to do. Here's what to do: 65 Examples of Login Form Design - this is the intro page. To see them all, click the second link in the first para. 36 beautiful login page / form designs - a great collection from Dzine this March. 21 beautiful login page/form designs - another collection from Dream CSS Attractive Login / Signup Interface Designs - more ideas from Greepit.com Designing Login Boxes: 6 examples of Good and Bad Design - thoughts from Design vs Art. Interface Design: Login/SignUp - collection from Web Design Ledger Login form designs and inspiration - some thoughts on options from OpenCrypt. Login Forms - a collection on Flickr (the same user, Factory Joe, has some other collections of interface designs and an interesting blog.) Inspriational Login in web design - another collection from Pattern Tap, a pattern library. Login - Interaction Design pattern Library - thoughts on good design and a collection from the Welie.com pattern library. Using address finders in web forms - this is about address fields in registration processes rather than login. But it was interesting, so I included it here!
Click, tweet, e-mail, twitter, skim, browse, scan, blog, text: the jargon of the digital age describes how we now read, reflecting the way that the very act of reading, and the nature of litera ...
# realtime debug It allows developers to write and test code quickly using document.write, alerts or everything else. To view or execute a code, just use CTRL RETURN or click on debug panel (bottom left), result will be displayed on output panel (bottom right) using a dedicated iframe virtual space. # line points Just click one line (number on the left) to mark them # in-place suggest Just click CTRL SPACE or CTRL SHIFT with Opera to view a kind of intelligent code suggest. For example, if You write "Number." on area then use CTRL SPACE You will see every Number dedicated method plus generic Object methods. If You press CTRL SPACE without a dot before area selection, suggest will show You generic or global functions and statements. # quick and simple load and save operations
Denshi Jisho is an easy-to-use and powerful online Japanese dictionary. It lets you find words, kanji and example sentences by searching in many ways. The dictionaries are also interlinked so that you can check what the kanji in a word mean individually or what context a word can be used in. You can also look up kanji by the parts they contain. Denshi Jisho Bookmarklet. Select a Japanese word on a page, then click the bookmarklet to make a quick lookup on that word.
FormTextResizer is a bookmarklet that allows you to resize any textarea or text input on any webpage. This way, you won't be confined to a teensy little comment box or e-mail field. Just activate the bookmarklet, then click-drag on the textarea or text field that you want to resize. Simple!
The following page provides a graphic interface for exploring the International Phonetic Alphabet. To use the resource simply click on any link to hear an illustrative example. For example, most rows in the Pulmonic chart (Manner of Articulation) have descriptive audio that explains each row completely. Other charts (Non-Pulmonic, Vowels etc.) have detailed audio descriptions available by clicking on the chart title. Within each chart, clicking on any IPA character will play an example of that sound. With consonants, you will hear the sound in exclusion followed by an intervocalic example. You will need a recent browser and QuickTime installed on your computer in order to use the page to the fullest. You will also need a UVic NetLinkID to access these copyrighted materials.
Type or paste text in any of the green or grey shaded boxes and click on the button Convert button above it. Alternative representations will appear in all the other boxes. You can then cut
This info graphic shows the immense threat of the Swine Flu compared to other manners of death. Today's the 300th day of the year 2009, so I used the numbers of deaths on the Poodwaddle's World Clock (which uses the death stats of the official WHO data and statistics) for a quick comparison. The number of swine flu deaths is from the official german epidemic info site. - click here to zoom image
En plus de la fonction classique de firefox qui permet de copier "l’adresse du lien" sur lequel vous avez fait votre click droit, CoLT rajoute 2 options vraiment pratiques: - Copier uniquement le texte du lien dans le presse papier - Copier le texte du lien + l’adresse du lien (copie la balise html) Ensuite, il n’y a plus qu’a coller le contenu du presse papier et hop, votre lien est automatique formé sur votre merveilleux blog !
The Printliminator is a bookmarklet with some simple tools you can use to makes websites print better. One click to activate, and then click to remove elements from the page, remove graphics, and apply better print styling. Here is the bookmarklet:
Les carnets de croquis de Machinarium.
The X Spot est un jeu assez amusant présentant plusieurs scènes ou énigmes( An original hidden objects style puzzle. Find the X in each level. Use the mouse to point/click/drag objects and find that X!)
CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images. Anything you paint will instantly show up for all other connected users. -One click to save an image permanently (bb- and html-codes automaticly generated for simple posting on forums or on your blog).
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