ShaunInman.com // plus Elsewhere

Art Space Tokyo

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:03:00 GMT

A gorgeous guide to twelve intimate art spaces around Tokyo (designed by Craig Mod, most recently of Everymoment Now). I purchased my ticket to Ghibli this morning. ●

The Future of Japanese Food

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:40:00 GMT

No doubt exacerbated by the aforelinked Quarter Pounder and its kin of “gourmet” versions of familiar Western chains. ●

Quarter Pounder

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:44:00 GMT

McDonald’s serves up gaijin-size Quarter Pounders (and Double Quarter Pounders—and that’s it) sans branding. Intriguing. Of course, it’s still just a Quarter Pounder. ●

wp-Hyphenate

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:47:00 GMT

A clever Wordpress plugin that embeds soft-hyphens and zero-space entities in your text providing browsers with the cues necessary to successfully hyphenate words. hyph-n.com has a dingus to try it out if you don’t use Wordpress. ●

Making Web Fonts Work

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:45:00 GMT

Jon Tan on the current state of embedding typefaces. It never occurred to me that @font-face might incur a delay before rendering text (a common complaint against sIFR). And I had completely forgotten how rubbish ClearType is. Until anti-aliasing discrepancies between platforms can be resolved I don’t see even a standardized approach being accepted by discerning designers. Looks like we’re in for another four years of flash replacement. ●

The State of Font Embedding

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:26:00 GMT

Mark Wubben, the maintainer of sIFR, thinks out loud about font embedding and the various stop-gap alternatives. ●

The Listenings

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:30:00 GMT

Richard over at Diesel Sweeties is following up on the Thrillening (a synchronized, distributed listening of Michael Jackson’s Thriller in its entirety) with a listening of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars using Twitter as a backchannel for the event. ●

Giving geometry a bad name

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:20:00 GMT

The new Pepsi logo just doesn’t add up. There’s no point flaunting your geometry if the finished piece comes across arbitrary and unbalanced. ●

Huffduffer

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:53:00 GMT

Says creator Jeremy Keith, “is like ffffound for ssssound.” ●

typeface.js

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:45:00 GMT

Text replacement using the Canvas element instead of Flash. Dear type vendors, please save us from these convoluted stopgaps. Legally, The Internet (via email) ●

Physics Invader

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:46:00 GMT

Space Invaders plus gravity (and the carcasses of fallen enemy ships). (via) ●

10tees

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:31:00 GMT

Sweet tees from around the web grouped into themed collections of ten. ●

CSSHttpRequest

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:44:00 GMT

A clever alternative to JSONP that uses CSS rather than raw JavaScript as the delivery mechanism—which means a compromised third-party JSON provider is unable to run malicious code in the context of the requesting page. (via) ●

OMS!!!1

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:24:00 GMT

Oh. My. Science. Another barnacle app. This time we’re replacing “god” and “jesus” with “science.” Asimov would be proud. (via) ●

Classics

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:15:00 GMT

A dedicated book app for the iPhone for presumably public domain classics. Looks sweet. (via) ●

Front to Back: Ben Folds Five

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:58:00 GMT

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner performed live in its entirety by a temporarily reunited Ben Folds Five (plus Ben’s dad). Yes, I’m linking to MySpace. Blame Ryan. ●