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The Iaido Newsletter: Iwata Norikazu interview

by Takwann
I first met Iwata Sensei in England in August 2000. I found him to be a very interesting teacher with a strong personality. He is very knowledgeable in iaido and it's history, and is a strict sensei. I therefore wanted to do an interview to get some basic background information about this strong teacher. My friend Mr. Neil Kemp, from Britain, has trained under Iwata Sensei for years and has visited and trained in Japan many times with other senior students. He was going to Japan in November 2001 to once again learn from Iwata Sensei so I sent my questions to him and he kindly asked my questions and even expanded on them. In May 2002 Neil again visited Japan and asked some additional questions as I wished to focus further on some parts. So we got a long story, but I think you will be interested in it.

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January 2010

Typodarium

by sbrothier
Typodarium brings daily typographic inspiration to creative types around the world. This is the first tear-off calendar showcasing 365 different fonts. Discover a new font everyday, learn the background behind its creation and several other interesting details. Foundries and designers from all over the world are asked to contribute with their favorite fonts. The front page, which is classic and functional, shows the date, while the reverse side diplays the background info, designers and reference sources. Now, every day becomes a typography day and some calendar pages become a font shopping list.

Introducing Jawbone PRIME ™ - The Best Jawbone Headset ever created

by sbrothier
Aliph makes personal technology comfortable, usable, and beautiful. The flagship product, the award-winning Jawbone Bluetooth headset with NoiseAssassin™ technology set a new standard for mobile voice quality. Unmatched in the industry, Aliph's NoiseAssassin technology was originally perfected with DARPA for battlefield applications. It eliminates background noise and provides unparalleled call clarity in all environments. Since its launch in December 2006, the Jawbone headset has been widely recognized as the best Bluetooth headset in the marketplace and is a top seller at Apple, AT&T, Best Buy, Verizon, and Carphone Warehouse retail stores.

December 2009

CheckMyColours

by Xavier Lacot & 1 other
CheckMyColours is a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits.

Shifting focus - Edward Bilodeau

by karlcow

Shifting focus

Posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 ~ 4:54 PM

This is the last new post that I'll be making on this blog. I decided a while back to shift the focus of my web activities, and thought it was time to formally close things off here.

Why stop posting here? Mostly just a feeling that I needed to shake things up a bit, to put some serious effort behind a few other ideas that I've wanted to work on for a while. Making a clean break just felt right.

There may still be some activity on this site as I back-fill some old posts from other blogging platforms. My goal is to eventually have this as a (more or less) complete archive of my personal blogging from early 1998 to this year. That's a background project of mine that I plan on allocating a bit more time to in 2010.

A huge thanks to Karl Dubost for hosting this blog for so long. In addition to providing this infrastructure, Karl has supported and inspired me in more ways then he may realize. That you are reading this today is due in no small part to him, so you can thank (or blame!) him.

Thanks to Ed for his wonderful piece of work that is his weblog.

November 2009

FreeMediaGoo.com

by jakamos & 2 others
Free Images - Free Stock Photos, free background images, royalty free images, free web images

Supersized - Full Screen Background/Slideshow jQuery Plugin

by eledo34 & 3 others (via)
Supersized est un plugin jQuery qui permet l’affichage d’un slideshow d’images qui seront affichées en plein écran dans votre navigateur internet. Supersized propose plusieurs options : * Paramétrer le ratio (startwidth, startheight) * Centrer l’image verticalement (vertical_center) * Slideshow (oui/non) * Navigation (oui/non) * Transition (Pas d’effet de transition, effet fondu, Slide partant du haut, bas, gauche ou droite de l’écran)

jQSlickWrap - Slick text wrapping for jQuery

by vrossign & 2 others
To do this, it needs to have access to the individual pixels of the images it's operating on -- which is why for jQSlickWrap to work, you need to have a browser that supports HTML 5's new canvas element. Here's an overview of the algorithm: 1. If necessary, pre-load the image. 2. Determine the CSS styles for the image (float and padding). 3. Create a canvas element and set its dimensions to the size of the image plus its padding. 4. Draw the image onto the canvas in the top-left location. 5. Figure out the "background" color of the image by examining the pixel data at the top-left corner of the image. 6. Fill the canvas with this background color.

accordion book

by blackgoldfish
The Spring Moss base measures 5 1/2" x 4 3/4" and the strip cut from my stamped background paper is 1 1/2" X 5 1/2".

A jQuery Plugin for Zoomable, Interactive Maps - New Media Campaigns

by vrossign
asic css file is included with the demo zip. Here is some rough minimal css: view sourceprint? 1.#map { position: relative; width: 700px; height: 470px; overflow: hidden; } 2.#returnlink { display: block; position: absolute; bottom: 0; right: 0; } 3.#map a.bullet { display: block; position: absolute; width: 10px; height: 10px; background: yellow; } 4.#map img.zoomable { } 5.#map div.popup{ display: none; position: absolute; width: 200px; height: 300px; } 6.#map div.popup a.close{ display: block; position: absolute; bottom: 0; right: 0; } The code above will work just fine as a starting point. Obviously a lot of embellishment can be added to make the map look as g

October 2009

Using jQuery for Background Image Animations - Snook.ca

by eledo34 & 5 others (via)
Menu Jquery avec Animation depuis image de Fond (Background)

CSS Tools: Reset CSS

by mozkart & 2 others (via)
The goal of a reset stylesheet is to reduce browser inconsistencies in things like default line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on. The general reasoning behind this was discussed in a May 2007 post, if you're interested. Reset styles quite often appear in CSS frameworks, and the original "meyerweb reset" found its way into Blueprint, among others. The reset styles given here are intentionally very generic. There isn't any default color or background set for the body element, for example. I don't particularly recommend that you just use this in its unaltered state in your own projects. It should be tweaked, edited, extended, and otherwise tuned to match your specific reset baseline. Fill in your preferred colors for the page, links, and so on. In other words, this is a starting point, not a self-contained black box of no-touchiness.

Time/Weather Desktop on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

by karlcow

Well, most of the work is done by Earthdesk and GeekTool 3.

Earthdesk is set to Natural Color, Equirectangular projection, Natural Color, Real Moonlight, centered on Vienna, Background: Starfield. Zoom 80%, Clouds 80%, Brightness 80%.

In GeekTool, the times and the weathers are all separate Shell "geeklets".

Times are generated by running shell commands like

env TZ=Asia/Tokyo date " %l:%M %p"

every 20 seconds

The weather is the tricky part. The way I am doing it now, if I am not careful, gets me throttled for too many concurrent requests to the wunderground.com API server. It also fails badly if I am disconnected, so I will need to do it differently.

FWIW: I have a PHP script which I run as separate Shell Geeklets. I invoke it with the name of the city I want. It then hits wunderground and gets back an XML stream of the local weather, which I parse, format and echo. (the way I'd change this is run the script from cron, with a 30 second wait between requests, and cache the results locally, which I would then call from the Shell Geeklets)

From there it's just a question of setting fonts, sizes, colors and moving the little Geeklet boxes around as you want them.

Resolutions - the top three most used monitor resolutions - pixel width and height

by decembre
Resolutions I was looking for the top three most used monitor resolutions - pixel width and height - for making desktop wallpapers in my flickr stream. It dawned on me that knowing the three most used pixel counts weren't as important as moderately high resolution images in the correct format ratios. Here are the top three as of June 2009. 1. 1024x768 ( 1:1.33) 2. 1280x1024 ( 1:1.25 ) 3. 1280x800 ( 1:1.6 ) For example, the MacBook Pro supports 1440x900, which is the same dimensions as the 1280x800. Although there will be some scaling, the 26% difference of area between the two shouldn't cause enough stretching to make the image unpleasant as a desktop background.

Lightscreen - Home Page

by ycc2106 & 1 other
Lightscreen is a simple tool to automate the tedious process of saving and cataloging screenshots, it operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with one (or multiple) hotkeys and then saves a screenshot file to disk according to the user's preferences.

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