Danielle Sucher › Jailbreak the Patriarchy: my first Chrome extension A Chrome plugin that does its best to gender-swap the internet. For some it'll be eye opening. For some, it'' raise blood pressure. For others, it might even lower it. In any event, it's an interesting experience – go play.
[this is aaronland] the unbearable finality of pixel space If this matures a little, I'll be a happy man. Right now, it's a complete pain to get working out of the box, unless you're starting from a position of installing everything from scratch on an Ubuntu box, but if someone turns out a quick version that'll run on a basic PHP/MYSQL/Apache install on my webhost, I'll be a happy man. (Yes, I could spend a day or two making it run myself, but my photos are already well backed-up, ta, so my incentive to do it is limited. I quite want an easy minimalist portfolio site, but not enough to spend days building it.)
A List of Things That Plugins Don’t Work With Look seriously, if you're building a website, and thinking "Hey, I know, we'll do this bit with a plugin" – and it doesn't matter which one – Flash, Sliverlight, fuck, even Quicktime – then really stop, and think again. They're broken, and they don't do anything you can't do with modern web-standards based technology.
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design This is utterly brilliant. It very neatly skewers several big flaws in that Microsoft vision-of-the-future thing, and actually suggests several interesting possibilities for transformative technologies, if anyone can figure out how to do them. It also makes me think of a whole new spectrum of problems for people with certain disabilities that will need solving. If you give even a little shit about how you interact with the technology around you, this is a must read.
Apple Exiles A Security Researcher From Its Developer Program For Proof-of-Concept Exploit App – Forbes This is, frankly, idiotic. Yes, he violated Apple's TOS, but there is no evidence that he did it with malicious intent, beyond proving that it's possible to get a dangerous app onto the App Store. I expect the security flaw he's exposed to be patched relatively swiftly, but the deeper issue of shooting the messenger is what really needs addressing here.
ASHES: A graphic novel by Alex de Campi & Jimmy Broxton Been meaning to link to this all week. Old chum Alex de Campi, who you may recall did the rather excellent comic SMOKE some years back, is looking for backing to produce a sequel, with art by the superb Jimmy Broxton. I can confidently predict that this will be absolutely brilliant, and you should fork over your cash at once. (I would have already done so, but Kickstarter hates me, and will not let me pledge. So I encourage you all to do so instead, because I really want to read this.)
Whisky Marketplace Somebody has finally made a whisky shopping site that I can get excited about – it'll let me filter by age, price, and other characteristics so I can actually explore looking for something interesting, new and in-budget, rather than having to know what I'm looking for. Nice.