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October 2009
Yahoo! Sample Yodels
by kuroyagi
(via)
"Our expert musicians belted out their best, so that you can be inspired to create your own."
H&FJ News | Hoefler & Frere-Jones
by sbrothier
Most graphic designers choose the fonts that best fit their projects. Brian Hennings does the opposite: he chooses the projects that best fit the fonts. A resident designer at H&FJ, Brian shares with me the responsibility of creating all of the sample art you’ll find on this site. His is a strange universe of the fictitious: signage programs for mythical cities, book jackets for unwritten novels, product literature for items you cannot buy, broadcast graphics for live sporting events that you can’t quite identify.
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September 2009
IPA Charts
by Foolster41
Charts and sample sounds for the International phonetic alphabet. Extremely handy for world buildings who are making languages.
Fleshmap: Listen: Music
by karlcow
What do we sing about, when we sing about the body? The chart below, based on a sample of thousands songs, tells the story. The size of a circle corresponds to how often that part is mentioned in each genre. Click on a genre name to see a close-up that shows exactly what words were used.
Amazon - Constrained Search vs. Random Results
by access2
The way to find needles in the immense haystack of Amazon.com is through constrained search.
Amazon's search function, like most others, claims to use a logical AND operator on keywords. That is search results for "Amazon Warriors," for example, should contain both "Amazon" AND "Warriors."
In fact, you will find that, all things being equal -- "Amazon" AND "Warriors" results will appear higher than "Amazon" OR "Warriors" results.
You need to "drill down" through the thousands of Amazon Categories to find the results that meet your criteria. I could go on and on (there really are thousands of categories) but I think this small sample will illustrate how different your results can be for a single search term
Posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email.
by ycc2106
& 6 others
Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. You email us at post@posterous.com and we reply instantly with your new posterous blog. If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world. What can I send to posterous? You can attach any type of file and we'll post it along with the text of your email. We'll do smarter things for photos, MP3's, documents and video (both links AND files). Here's just a sample of what we support. What do you do when I attach photos to an email? If you attach one photo (of any size, even direct from your camera!), we'll resize it to a web-friendly size and post it. If you attach more than one photo in the same message, we automatically create a good looking image gallery like this one:
Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics
by Spone
In December 2005 we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. The results we found are available below. We hope this is of use!
August 2009
Twitterfountain, mashing Twitter Tweets and Flickr images into a visual backchannel
by oqdbpo
& 1 other
Twitterfountain comes to your aid: we mash up tweets and Flickr-images that share the same tags into a spectacular visual. Below is a sample, that you can copy and embed in your own site.
July 2009
WhoSampled.com
by jakamos
& 1 other
Community für Musik-Cover und Samples
WhoSampled ist eine Community-basierte Seite, in der von den Mitglieder Songs gesammelt werden, die gecovert wurden oder als Sample in anderen Liedern vorkommen. Man kann sich originale und Cover anhören und mit anderen über die Songs diskutieren.
HTML5 Drum Kit | RandomThink Labs
by Krome
& 1 other
Brian Arnold created a fun sample drum machine simulator using HTML5
June 2009
May 2009
Gunkanjima Island | Architecture Lab
by karlcow
“Off the westernmost coast of Japan, is an island called ‘Gunkanjima’ that is hardly known even to the Japanese. Long ago, the island was nothing more than a small reef. Then in 1810, [with] the chance discovery of coal … people came to live here, and through coal mining the reef started to expand continuously. Befor [sic] long, the reef had grown into an artificial island of one kilometer (three quarters of a mile) in perimeter, with a population of 5300. Looming above the ocean, it appeared a concrete labyrinth of many-storied apartment houses and mining structures built closely together.
flexMonkey
by ronpish
& 1 other
FlexMonkey is a testing framework for Flex apps that provides for the capture, replay and verification of Flex UI functionality. FlexMonkey can record and playback Flex UI interactions, and generates ActionScript-based testing scripts that can easily be included within a continuous integration process. It uses the Flex Automation API and was created by extending Adobe's sample automation adapter, AutoQuick.
