An 11 minute animation that explains the financial meltdown better than anything else I’ve come across. I realise 11 minutes is a long time in internet time, but it is well worth it. The animations-slash-infographics also reminds me of my other favourite infographics – the Hitchhikers Guide book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy film.
Check out The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis in full HD glory on Vimeo.
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Today something amazing happened on the Norwegian interwebs. Finn.no, Norway’s largest classifieds-site, is displaying a tip on their homepage to all IE6 users, encouraging them to upgrade their browser. Not only so, but they have initiated a campaign, prompting several of the most visited Norwegian sites to follow suit. This all started within 140 characters, when Erlend Schei, web-developer for Finn.no challenged everyone in control of mayor Norwegian websites.
To everyone with control of mayor Norwegian sites: What about a spring cleaning to get rid of IE6? One week of encouragement on our homepages?[Read more →]
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Having spare time has unexpected consequences. Such as plowing through an entire book in one sitting. Last night I finally picked up my copy of Everything you know about CSS is wrong. A daunting title indeed, but the book is just over 100 pages, so it’s a quick read. And what you learn is basically that there’s a thing called CSS tables, which allows you to layout web-pages in wonderful ways.
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The other day I was producing a whole lot of pdf’s hitting print as pdf for each page of my Gmail. They off course ended up as a big bunch of separate pdf’s, although having them as one file made more sense.
I don’t have Adobe Acrobat, and don’t want to fill up my hard-drive with something which amounts to bloatware to me. So I fired up Automator. Automator is a handy little app which will make workflows for you by simple drag’n drops. Like making an AppleScript without any coding. It can do a lot of cool stuff, and usually if you think “Wouldn’t it be great if..” then Automator might be the answer for you.
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I’ve been looking forward to this week for some time now. I’m going to meet some people from twitter, port80 and a lot more. It’s conference time! I’ll be warming up with the monthly port80 meeting at Velvet Lounge tonight, my second time there. Seems like a lot of people will be coming today too.
Tomorrow is Edge of the Web conference day. There’s so much to choose from, but at the moment my day looks like this:
Friday is workshop day. For me the first half will be theoretic with Donna Spencer talking about Information Architecture, after lunch it’ll be hands on javascripting with Cameron Adams.
After all that I might just take the weekend off.
Tags: conference · Edge of the Web · port80 · WebJam2 Comments
What an amazing feeling it is to win something that you actually want.
Just got a tweet saying I won SitePoint’s new book Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong. That is the one CSS book that’s come out recently that I feel any need of reading. As it is, I’ve done my fair share of CSS, not that I mind, not at all. I’ve long reached the point where I know which browsers has which bugs and how to combat them without my brain exploding. Most of the time anyway.
So I’ve finally taken the plunge into JavaScript. I know, it’s like starting a blog in 2008, but better late than never, right? And literally as I’m going through the last pages of Jeremy Keith’s DOM scripting (friendly lent from Man With No Blog) Twitter tells me they’ve picked a winner, not mentioning who the winner is. Easily distracted as I am I follow the link, read the whole post, and don’t realize I’m the lucky one until I read my own name towards the end. Never mind that they’ve screenshotted my twitterbadge all over the top. I just thought that was some new integrated twitter API thing displaying that I’m logged in. So in one word – yay!
Looks like I’m getting some visitors via the SitePoint blog and my twitter profile. Hi guys and girls!
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The design is part of a greater branding, showing the company as a whole. XHTML, CSS and javascript templating by me. Built with Drupal.
The site is live at schjodt.no
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Just a quickie for Technorati. As my abounded blog on wordpress.com gets about 10 times more traffic then I do here I figured it’s time to take some measures to redirect people. I like stats just as much as the next guy or girl.
Ladies and Gentlemen: I hereby present my Technorati Profile.
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Email thread 1 at work:
From Administration secretary:
The new venetian blinds for the meetingrooms have arrived. The remotes are lying in the windowsill.
Reply from boss who spends 99% of his time in clientmeetings:
... and I promise you that it’s really fun – have been running the blinds up and down for 30 minutes. This is cool
1 Translated from Norwegian.
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