Biomimicry - The practice of developing sustainable human technologies inspired by nature. Sometimes called Biomimetics or Bionics, it’s basically biologically inspired engineering.
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How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery
Ever seen some excellent jQuery navigation that left you wanting to make one of your own? Today we’ll aim to do just that by building a menu and animate it with some smooth effects.
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Designing Web Interfaces: 12 Standard Screen Patterns
To celebrate the release of our new O’Reilly book, “Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions”, I wanted to share the full set of principles and patterns I use for RIA design. These concepts are central to enterprise application and web productivity application design.
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My Git Workflow
Lately I’ve been acting as the unofficial Git consultant for Skribit, usually in response to @Stammy saying something on Twitter along the lines of “Hey, git just did something totally nonintuitive and now I can’t figure out what to do next.” I’ve been using Git long enough to know the answer, usually, or at least to be able to figure it out, plus I still remember how people used to SVN think, which helps.
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China\’s internet \’spin doctors\’
“The practice of hiring these commentators was started a couple of years ago by local governments which found it hard to control public opinion.”
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ivan krstić · code culture » How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing
“A “short squeeze” sounds inconspicuous enough; you wouldn’t tell it by Bloomberg’s language, but Merckle’s Volkswagen bet lost out to one of the most masterful hacks of the financial system in history.”
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Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
The story of the 2009 war on piracy was best summarised by another pirate, who lived and died in the fourth century BC. He was captured and brought to Alexander the Great, who demanded to know \”what he meant by keeping possession of the sea.\” The pirate smiled, and responded: \”What you mean by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you, who do it with a great fleet, are called emperor.”
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The War Nerd: Hamas Ain’t No Hezbollah - By Gary Brecher
“What we have here is Hamas getting a very hard lesson in why it’s dangerous to pretend you’re Hezbollah when you’re not.”
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Lost Garden: The Princess Rescuing Application: Slides
“My talk was on building an application that rescued princesses. The goal was to give interaction designers some insight into how game design might be applied to the domain of more utilitarian applications”
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Flickr Embed
Thanksto Nicola D’Agostino, you now have Flickr Embed in Pressmark. Update your version from Github: http://github.com/alx/pressmark