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30+ Eye-Opening Web Development Screencasts

We’ve all felt that haze that forms around your eyes when you’re trying to study lines and lines of code from a written tutorial. After an hour or so, you’re eyes simply become too weakened to continue reading. That’s why I’m such a huge fan of video tutorials. You can sit back and learn at your own pace. I’ve compiled a list of over thirty screencasts that are guaranteed to help you.

WSJ: How Detroit drove into a ditch

Great article from the Wall Street Journal's Paul Ingrassia that summarizes how and why the US auto industry fell to pieces. My favorite part was this telling excerpt:

In Detroit, amid worker alienation and the "blue-collar blues," Chevies, Fords and Plymouths rattled, rusted and rolled over -- and those were the good ones. The Ford Pinto's gas tank was prone to explode into flames when the car was hit from the rear, making the Pinto the poster product for corporate callousness.

Optical Disc Poster - Alex Broadhurst

Alex Broadhurst just informed me that he just released this gorgeous poster. Printed white on A1 240gsm holographic mirri. Edition of 50 posters. The design celebrates 50 years of the optical disc whilst paying homage to Gottlieb Soland’s 1957 grammo-grafik poster.

Printed by K2 screen
£35 inc p&p (UK only)

19-year-old Commits Suicide on Justin.tv

In a striking display of the power of live video, Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide on Wednesday while broadcasting himself on video site Justin.tv. As we understand it from various forum posts, the 19-year-old Floridian was apparently egged on by commenters on Justin.tv and fellow forum users on bodybuilding.com. Biggs overdosed on pills while on camera and appeared to be breathing for hours until watchers realized he might be serious, at which point they alerted the police.

The Faces of Mechanical Turk

When you experiment with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, it feels like magic. You toss 500 questions into the ether, and the answers instantly start rolling in from anonymous workers around the world. It was great for getting work done, but who are these people? I've seen the demographics, but that was too abstract for me.

Making Attachments Appear Across Translations

Drupal 6 supports translation of content with the core Content Translation module. So you can create a page in English, then translate the page to Dutch.

But what if you attach a file to the English page? It does not show up on your Dutch translation. And what if you are using CCK and FileField? That's the case that I want to cover in this article.

Bush snubbed at G20 Summit



Rick Sanchez on CNN showed this video of world leaders at the G20 Summit refusing to shake hands with President Bush.

Kim Høltermand Photography

Starkly quiet architectural imagery. Not recommended for manic depressives. Via AisleOne.

more finalists in international criminal court competition


proposal by ingenhoven architects

we announced yesterday that schmidt hammer lassen architects were among the three shortlisted firms
to design the new international criminal court in the hague. however we didn’t show you the designs by
the other two finalists ingenhoven architects and wiel arets architects & associates who will also move
into the final round of judging.

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