Gorgeous site for Yang Rutherford. HTML no less.
Bonus points for making your scroll wheel move the page horizontally.
Note: Also gorgeous on iPad, but not optimized for phone.
via siteInspire

I only watch a few shows regularly—Mad Men and Top Gear and both of these shows have been off the air for at least a year. Suffice to say, I haven’t been watching too much TV lately.
So I’m excited Mad Man is coming back April 7th.

Taken from The Combustion Chamber

On Google’s big earnings day, Google+ is a no-show
Has anyone told Google+ that MySpace and Friendster are having a party down the street and they should really go check it out?
No? Well, someone should.
Update: Sergey Brin is in the subway and already on his way. He’s dressed as a jewel thief from an 80’s movie and ready to rock.

John Hodgman says persistence trumps talent in all creative endeavors.
This is true.
Most people are allergic to Persistence and it’s sibling, Hard Work. Or as Chris Rock would say, Hard Work is like Kryptonite to most people.
If you persist and work hard at what you create, it further distinguishes you from those who might copy you. It also makes it harder for imitators to reach to level of quality you achieve in your creations.

This past October I applied WD-40 to my iPhone 4’s home button because it was barely registering clicks (or double clicks) anymore.
I’m happy to report after over 3 months, my home button is working better than ever.
For anyone who was suspect of this technique, I think the coast is clear.

Microsoft Might Kick In $1-$3 Billion To Help With The Dell Buy Out
$3 billion to keep Dell going?
It’s like supporting a horse carriage company during the golden age of automobiles.
If I were Michael Dell, I would give the money back to the shareholders (it never gets old).

What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers?

Agency : No, we can only take on clients who know how to drive the cars we stock. We find it’s safer that way. There are so many little differences between cars, we just don’t want to take a chance.
Applicant : I have a drivers license. I know how to drive. I’ve been driving all kinds of cars for 15 years, I am sure I can adapt.
Agency : We appreciate your position, but we can only take exact matches. Otherwise, how could we ever know if you could drive one of our cars?
I’m a sucker for a good car analogy.
via Hacker News

Taken from The Combustion Chamber

The Icarus Deception from Squarespace on Vimeo.

Window Seat is an amazing series of photographs by Julieanne Kost.
via Flavorwire

Looks like Group94 is relaunching their site next month:

Assume nothing, question everything. Group94 stands for highly tailored work. In an industry tending to standardization, offering more of the same, this appears to be an approach that works.
Developing in HTML5 nowadays did not change that…
Indeed every project starts from a clean slate, the goal is to make it fresh and innovative yet well thought out and usable, it must be fast and to the point and of a highest order from a technical point of view.
Can’t wait. I’ve been a fan of their work for years.

I apologize if you’ve been inundated with old posts on the site and in your RSS feeds.
Last week a third-party plug-in was causing my Movable Type administration area to crash. In turn, I tried to fix the problem and I made more work for myself than I needed to (It had to do with Twitter Tools and and what I think was a conflict with a Perl module upgrade by my hosting provider). I learned some things. Good news is, the site is running better than ever.
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Daily Exhaust is back online.
The main lesson I learned is Movable Type is not getting better with age—at least in my experience with it on a shared-server environment (I’m not the only one). Part of what took me so long to get this site back up was installing and testing multiple dot-releases of Movable Type 5. As of this writing, the latest release is 5.2.2 and it ran exponentially slower than the version I had previously installed, 5.02. Luckily MT includes the install version number in the HTML Head section.
I’m not interested in exporting everything over to WordPress because WordPress doesn’t have static publishing like Movable Type does. Despite the broken links and embedded video objects from the last 7 years, static publishing gives me a complete archive that isn’t contingent on backend server to work.
At the end of the day, Daily Exhaust is about publishing words and images and Movable Type does that well. No it’s not as advanced as platforms like Squarespace (which I use over at The Combustion Chamber), but it doesn’t need to be.