2012-01-19 (Thursday)
Links
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FitText - A plugin for inflating web type
“Use this [jQuery] plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.” Nice. (via @simonw)
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Imperica - The future of the future
Leila Johnston and Chris Heathcote discuss (in text) visions of the future, and advertising’s representation of the future.
Tweets
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@benhammersley As an observer of both, @GOVUK feels like it's BBC News Online 15 years ago. Doing something important and doing it right.
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I’m really going to have to set aside some time to find StackOverflow questions I can answer. I owe the hive mind.
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@cuica Blimey, congrats! I hope you cope well with life outside the Guardian after so long :)
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Impossible diagrams: A chart showing how many companies founded in, say, 1880 were still running in every year between then and now.
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“git push really firmly”
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@denisewilton Designing things that were pretty and wishing they were doing something useful. Now they think they’re doing something useful.