theCHIVE - Funny Photos and Funny Videos – Keep Calm and Chive On Top 5 Pens — The Pen Addict (Updated 10/14/2013) I get asked what my favorite pens are all of the time. While that is generally an easy question to answer, what the reader often means is "what pen should I buy?" That is a much more difficult question because of the sheer number of variables involved. With my Top 5 lists, I try to capture what pens I am currently using the most in each category. Use these lists as guidelines. Top 5 Pens - Overall (Updated Oct. 2013) TWSBI 580 - Hard to beat the value and versatility.Sakura Pigma Micron - My go-to Field Notes pen.Uni-Ball Signo DX 0.38 mm - Vibrant, smooth, and consistent.Ohto Graphic Liner - Still amazed how good this pen is.Uni-Ball Jetstream - The pen of the people, and me if it is 0.5 mm. Top 5 Micro Gel Ink Pens (Updated Oct. 2013) Uni-Ball Signo DX 0.38 mm - More consistent than the Hi-Tec-C.Pilot Hi-Tec-C 0.3 mm - The finest, crispest lines going.Zebra Sarasa Clip 0.4 mm - Super sharp lines, great clip. Top 5 Pens In The Store Top 5 Plastic Tip Pens
DRUDGE REPORT TaxProf Blog LLC Working Vocabulary: Responsive Grid Behaviors Responsive web design needs a vocabulary: a set of terms to describe how interfaces flex, transform, and adapt across displays. While prototypes demonstrate complex behaviors, designers working on the responsive web don’t have a common language to discuss and critique those behaviors outside the code. Perhaps you’ve heard comments like these: “This thing needs to […] Maintaining Trust in Coworking Settings While coworking can mitigate some issues surrounding working remotely, it also comes with its own risks. Where’s My New Prototype? Compared to wireframes, HTML prototypes – especially for first-timers – can take more time to generate an initial set of ideas. The Power of Sketches: How We Sold a Huge Project Shift with 5 Index Cards Last year, EightShapes was engaged by The Heritage Foundation to create a publicly accessible online version of their published book, The Guide to the Constitution. 6 Tips for Organizing Sketched Artifacts
9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask The United States and allies are preparing for a possibly imminent series of limited military strikes against Syria, the first direct U.S. intervention in the two-year civil war, in retaliation for President Bashar al-Assad's suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians. If you found the above sentence kind of confusing, or aren't exactly sure why Syria is fighting a civil war, or even where Syria is located, then this is the article for you. What's happening in Syria is really important, but it can also be confusing and difficult to follow even for those of us glued to it. Here, then, are the most basic answers to your most basic questions. Read award-winning novelist Teju Cole's funny and insightful parody of this article, "9 questions about Britain you were too embarrassed to ask 1. Syria is a country in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Syria is in the middle of an extremely violent civil war. 2. 3. 4. 5. Oh man, it gets so much worse. 6. 7. 8.
The Superficial PrawfsBlawg Visual.ly Blog Content alone does not make a great video; you need a great video design that make a visual statement combining design and data visualization to deliver a story. Designers often get a little excited and put too much fancy design to fill in the space. The best content marketing brands are the ones that know how use content to drive conversions and pushing the boundaries. Keep in mind, quality = attention span. “Bosch Envision 360 VR” – Bosch Auto Parts The new Bosch Envision windshield wiper blade sharpens night visibility and offers extreme weather safety. “Morton Salt Girl’s 100th Birthday” – Morton Salt For 100 years, we’ve celebrated life’s moments with the Morton Salt Girl — from birthdays to holidays to the everyday. “Autodesk Forge” – Autodesk Autodesk came to Visually to help translate the features of their new Forge platform into vignettes with fantasy machinery... keep reading
Your Labor Day Syria Reader, Part 2: William Polk - James Fallows Many times I've mentioned the foreign-policy assessments of William R. Polk, at right, who first wrote for the Atlantic (about Iraq) during Dwight Eisenhower's administration, back in 1958, and served on the State Department's Policy Planning staff during the Kennedy years. He now has sent in a detailed analysis about Syria. Polk wrote this just before President Obama switched from his go-it-alone policy and decided to seek Congressional approval for a Syrian strike. Overview of Developing Applications with Visual Basic Express On Startup When you first open Visual Basic Express, you see that most of the IDE is filled with the Start Page window. The Start Page contains a clickable list of your recent projects, a Getting Started area with links to important Help topics, and a list of links to online articles and other resources. Figure 1: Solution Explorer Across the top of the IDE are a menu bar and a toolbar. Design Mode When you open or create a project, the appearance of the IDE changes into design mode. Figure 2: IDE in Design Mode In design mode, the Start Page is covered by another window known as the Form Designer, which is basically a blank canvas that represents the user interface for your application. Run Mode When you run or debug your application, the IDE changes into run mode. Figure 3: Visual Basic form in Break mode Additional windows for watching the value of variables, viewing output, and other debugging tasks can be viewed at run time by selecting them from the Debug menu. Other Important Windows
Mirror of Justice Internet Industry 30/10/10 “Golden Ratio” – WollyTech Funnel (also known as Conversion Funnel) is one of the basic concepts of Internet industry, it means that 100 people passing through your site, how many people you can put them into loyal customers. Generally the most basic e-commerce Funnel probably in five steps: 100% – Traffic 20% – Email subscribers (or Facebook Fans) 10% – Join 3% – orders 1% – repeat purchase You can see in front of every step I have added a number, so you get some of the concept for this funnel (these numbers are roughly grasped, each company is different because of its business model). If it is a free smartphone App, the Funnel is about this: 100% – Click Admob / Adsense / iAd Advertising 20% – Download 6% – Open once 2% – Reuse Noted that each site will not have only one Funnel, traffic from different places, often have different first and second conversion rate, for example: SEM (keyword advertising) conversion rates tend to be more higher than SEO (Search engine optimization).
They’re Taking Over! by Tim Flannery Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean by Lisa-ann Gershwin, with a foreword by Sylvia Earle University of Chicago Press, 424 pp., $27.50 It’s become fashionable to keep jellyfish in aquariums. Box jellyfish have bells (the disc-shaped “head”) around a foot across, behind which trail up to 550 feet of tentacles. In 2000 a somewhat less venomous species of box jellyfish, which lives further south, threatened the Sydney Olympics. Most jellyfish are little more than gelatinous bags containing digestive organs and gonads, drifting at the whim of the current. The Irukandjis are diminutive relatives of the box jellies. It’s now known that the brush of a single tentacle is enough to induce “Irukandji syndrome.” It’s difficult to know how many victims the Irukandji have claimed. The box jellies and Irukandjis are merely the most exotic of a group of organisms that have existed for as long as complex life itself. Jellyfish are among the oldest animal fossils ever found.