Charles Ying has made use of Apple’s CSS Visual Effects extensions by detailing his CoverFlow (zflow) demo, a part of his new open source endeavor CSS-VFX. If you have an iPhone, try out the CoverFlow (zflow) demo live with a live Flickr feed. The experiment is still a little jumpy but it brings forth the endless potential that the iPhone platform is capable of.
In my quest to avoid anybody ever using my credit cards to make malicious purchases, I’ve never actually signed my cards. Instead, they have written in the back with a black Sharpie the words “See ID”, with the assumption that whenever I hand over my card to a cashier, they would do their job of asking for identification to verify proper ownership. Unfortunately that’s not always the case, which makes my whole concept of not signing inneffectual.
So in spite of this situation, from now on whenever I’m prompt to sign for a purchase and I haven’t been ask for ID being that the card is not signed, I write absurd names or comments such as Napoleon Dynamite, Cartman, Screw you or Do Your Job.
ObamaBats: Jeff has released an incredible collection of 24 high-quality dingbats featuring Barack Obama and various design elements! This collection is completely free for download, upload, distribution, use and modification. Use these dingbats to start creating your own Obama paraphernalia today!
I woke up this morning to find out about Obama’s amazing win not by conventional media but by the addictive and dynamic community of Twitter. Basic instinct took over in me wanting to get the results quick and to the point without all the verbiage from CNN and I was astound as much as any other American seeking for change by the results. Jeff best describes this historic moment in what all this means as it relates to race and future generation:
…we, as a nation, have once and for all moved past our deplorable history of slavery and racism in the most symbolic of ways. That doesn’t mean there is no racism — of course there is, and there may always be — but as a country, we can now stand up and say, “we’re past all that.” And when we tell kids of all races, “in this country, you can be anything you want to be,” we can finally say it with conviction. #
With record turnout expected, Expedia announces new web page with travel tips for inauguration-bound travelers. The page will bring together the tools needed to plan a patriotic visit to the nation’s capital during inauguration week by reserving hotels, airline tickets and admission to various activities and tours around the D.C. area. I’m considering it.