Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV)
via youtube.com
This is really pretty amazing when you think about it – especially for 1970.
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10/GUI : Multitouch Hotness
via 10gui.com
Multitouch tech really will require a totally new approach to computer operating systems interfaces. While this approach is probably a good intermediary stage – it still relies on many conventions that will probably need be totally re-thought. But that’s a good thing.
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Sass – Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets
Beauty
Sass does away with the unnecessary brackets and semicolons of CSS. Properties are nested beneath selectors, and each property gets its own line.
// Sass h1 height: 118px margin-top: 1em .tagline font-size: 26px text-align: right/* CSS */ h1 { height: 118px; margin-top: 1em; } .tagline { font-size: 26px; text-align: right; }
via sass-lang.com
This seems like an interesting idea. As a language, CSS certainly lacks many useful functions that are common to other coding languages. My only concern with Sass is that it adds an additional layer of complexity to the styling process – a process that has become second nature for me. If I can figure out a way to streamline Sass into the normal CSS workflow (code, browser refresh test, iterate) then I can see it becoming quite useful.
If I get some time to experiment with this – I will certainly post a review as well as a tutorial to help any developer get started.
HT: Nathan
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Internet Uttered First Words 40 Years Ago Today
Below is a record of the first message ever sent over the ARPANET. It took place at 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969. This record is an excerpt from the “IMP Log” that we kept at UCLA. I was supervising the student/programmer Charley Kline (CSK) and we set up a message transmission to go from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer. The transmission itself was simply to “login” to SRI from UCLA. We succeeded in transmitting the “l” and the “o” and then the system crashed! Hence, the first message on the Internet was “lo”! We were able to do the full login about an hour later.
via cs.ucla.edu
A good day to celebrate!
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Tribute to the fall of Geocites: xkcd- HOSTED BY GEOCITIES
via xkcd.com
Outstanding throwback. Under Construction gifs, Email Me, Marquee Text, Broken Image tags, the BLINK tag… The only feature missing are several animated gif torches.
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CryEngine 3: Beauty, Speed, And Interaction – Cryengine 3 – Kotaku
via kotaku.com
Could somebody develop a fun game with it…? 
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SynergyKM – Share your input device with multiple computers
Of all the neat little applications there are out there to enhance your workflow – Synergy is absolutely on my top ten list. For folks out there that use more than one computer on a consistent basis – Synergy let's you control multiple machines with one keyboard and mouse. Control is passed in the same fashion that having multiple monitors connected to one machine: Simply by moving your mouse out of your current screen – and onto your other computer.
Bonus: If you are using a Mac – there is a handy GUI version of Synergy (the regular version of Synergy is a command line application) called SynergyKM. SynergyKM is great because it easily lets you position where your other computer is physically (e.g. to the right of the main machine) using a graphic interface.
Download SynergyKM here for free: http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergykm/
If you use more than one computer – this app is a must have. Feel free to leave a comment if you need a little help setting it up.
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Curious about CSS?
Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started « Smashing Magazine 
Whether you are a total n00b, or teh 7337 h4XX0rz – this is a great intro article covering most of the basics of Cascading Style Sheets.
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jQuery Visual Cheat Sheet
Awesome JQuery resource. Hat-Tip to Dave Merwin for picking this up! (Also for tipping me off to Posterous)
Making happy designers and developers…
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Sequel Pro — MySQL database management app for Mac OS X
via sequelpro.com
I have been working with this App for several weeks now and am very happy with it. It has a simple GUI interface for interacting with your MySQL databases. Worth giving a try!!
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