Kristina Just

alle klicheer om afrika passer her, der er trommemusik overalt og folk dasker og klapper og råber msungo, hver gang de får øje på en ikke-afrikaner

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Morten Just

ha, hvad betyder det? “hvid”?

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Kristina Just

ja eller asiat, mest hvid tror jeg

msungo, sister, how aaare youuu

nogle gange vil de gerne sælge noget, men for de meste vil de bare gerne sige hej

ugandere elsker at hilse

jeg stod i kø til en ATM og hver gang der kom en ny i køen, vendte alle sig og hilste på den nye person

efter tre gange begyndte jeg også at sige hej til de nye i køen

Det er Claus. Han laver laser om natten, når månen er.. osv.

Your iTunes library sucks and you head off to the mp3 blogs for inspiration. But they only play one track at a time. Enter the Y! Player as a bookmarklet:

That’s clever. I used to like minimalistic del.icio.us Playtagger, but this one surely takes clicks off your back. Of course, to do the same trick, you could go ahead and get the Firefox for music, Songbird, but it’s just not as elegant as this.

Here’s how to put the player on your own site.

By the way, isn’t the lead singer in this song the guy from The New Pornographers?

While we’re dreaming about it,

The Japanese are using it
(via koolhunting.dk)

This is how an irreversibly bricked Chumby looks. It now serves as my backlit Koolhas EU flag.

How I bricked it? Simply updated its software. “If it’s an alpha unit, you will not be able to use it again”, the help person told me last night. I went to bed, and the Chumby did not wake me up this morning.

I hoped they would make an exception to their US-only policy because I did own one already, and didn’t get a “you upgrade, you brick” warning. No luck.

UPDATE: As Steve points out in the comments: This is an officially non-supported alpha unit that I got for free years ago. Current Chumbys can of course handle updates. I just miss mine, that’s all.

I was in a long meeting yesterday. Two hours, felt like four, clock reported just one. But one sentence kept popping up: “it’s the death of the dumb icon”.

Not being spectacularly novel in itself (I mean, look at your iCal icon, it shows the date, a PDF icon shows the file itself – which is annoying, but still), it had me thinking. An icon is not an additon to an icon-based interface, and everyone knows how to use it. But tiny simple changes can hint or even message a calculation done by supercomputers on a space station, or species. Such as DNA icon.

How much is it used today? Let’s look at my dock.

(click to enlarge)

Out of 27 icons, in my current view, four are not dumb.

Adium shows new messages (but not the face of the latest sender), iCal shows today’s date (but no indicator if I have events), next to the recycle bin, the Downloads folder shows a) that there is more than one, and b) the latest is a PDF, and the recycle bin shows that it is not empty.

Contracts have been signed. In 2012, the net will look look this

according to these guys.

Nice, isn’t it? This is one of those things you never get around to because what you have will do for now. Now, what you have will do, and look good, too. It’s available in PNG, PDF, SVG, Visio, and the Omnigraffle even comes with an installer.

Yahoo Design Stencils

Here’s what it looks like in OmniGraffle

Yahoo’s answer to Google Gears is BrowserPlus

Both are browser plugins allowing websites to do more with the user’s computer.

The thing that makes my heart pound faster is that Google recently announced that they’re building in location using Skyhook (iPhone and Loki) so that websites finally will have a chance knowing where the user is – down to street level.

Let’s hope Yahoo wants to do at least the same with BrowserPlus. Until then, check out the Upload to Flickr demo. The main page also mention interaction with Wii remotes, IRC clients, and JSON inspectors.