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Trees around the world and environmentalists will rejoice with Xerox’s latest news announcement – they have successfully developed a way to make prints that have a one-day expiry date. This means the paper it is printed on can be used over and over again. Although the technology might be in its primitive state, think about the implications of such a quantum leap when it is perfected. Most of us often take a glance at printed material before filing it away somewhere, only to forget about it a few days later. This could spur a whole new generation of office workers who practice the Just-In-Time policy, printing what people need at that very moment and forgetting about it. Recipients of the printout could always scan the printed copy and let the paper “reset” itself the next day.

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[Via Coolest-gadgets]

Wouldn’t it be cool to have a simple plastic camera that could morph two photos together? That is possible with the Split Cam and the final photo result can be seen on the following link:

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[Via Uber Review]

Two years after winning her first iF Design Award, Marike Andeweg (28) now wins two iF Design Awards! She receives this ‘Oscar of the designworld’ for her renewed designs of the washbasin C7 and the Add collection.

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[Via Design Spotter]

It’s no secret that users prefer faster web sites. I work in a dedicated team focused on quantifying and improving the performance of Yahoo! products worldwide. As part of our work, we conduct experiments related to web page performance. We are sharing our findings so that other front-end engineers join us in accelerating the user experience on the web.

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[Via YUI Blog]

Last month, I posted some video taken from one of Douglas Crockford’s presentations on frontend engineering (Video: Douglas Crockford, “An Inconvenient API: The Theory of the Dom”). Those who enjoyed Douglas’s deep-dive into the DOM may be interested also in his “Advanced JavaScript” presentation, now publicly available on Yahoo! Video. In this presentation — the third of a three-part series he has been teaching at Yahoo! — Douglas looks closely at code patterns from which JavaScript programmers can choose in authoring their applications. He compares familiar constructs like the Pseudoclassical Pattern with more unique patterns like the Parasitic Pattern that (he argues) run more “with the grain” of JavaScript. When Brendan Eich spoke at Yahoo this summer he described Douglas as “Yoda of lambda programming and JavaScript”; after watching “Advanced JavaScript,” you may have a clear sense of where that sentiment comes from.

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[Via YUI Blog]

Acredito que um dos maiores feitos alcançados pelos blogs nos últimos anos no mundo é a capacidade de descentralizar a informação da mídia tradicional. Mesmo que a quantidade de brasileiros conectados à internet ainda seja relativamente pequena, o poder de alcance que um bando de blogueiros conseguem juntos obter é tamanho. Talvez estejamos iniciando a época em que o blog seja mais poderoso que a caneta, porque a caneta já é mais que a espada há muito tempo. Mais vale uma palavra escrita em um blog à la WordPress e Blogspot do que um texto em um pedaço de papel. Acreditas que revoluções poderão nascer nos blogs? Danton que se cuide. E se depender do cenário brasileiro, logo logo será necessário ir a bastilha (leia-se congresso nacional) cavalgando em nossos blogs e aguardar os processos chegarem. Tudo isso porque não faz muito tempo que um blog recebeu uma execução sumária da UOL a pedido do senador do Amapá, José Sarney (ou seria o TRE?), pela publicação de uma charge. Essa aqui ao lado. Outro por causa de um comentário de um autor.

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[Via Revolução ETC!]

There’s been plenty of talk about screen resolutions and browser window sizes in the last few months, the latest being Cameron Moll’s Optimal width for 1024px resolution? and Should all sites be fluid?. It’s a good (and neverending) discussion to have, and people tend to have a pretty strong opinion on the matter.

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[Via 456 Berea ST]

Further proving you don’t have to be in orbit to be weightless, the Gravity Chair from Norwegian baby products maker Stokke can sit upright as an office chair, function as a rocker, and lean way back for that serious contemplation your boss told you to stop doing. See it in its variety of unusual permutations, after the jump.

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[Via Gizmodo]

It’s the battle of the ages, played out with a new generation of hardware that, for the first time, appears to leave all but the most high-end gaming PCs in the dust. Opinions about Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 vary, but it’s pretty clear that both devices kick serious butt from a technical perspective. Looking over the specifications, and listening to representatives of both companies, however, I’ve come away with a few general thoughts.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/xbox360_vs_ps3.asp

Recado do Vinicius K-Max, que largou o submundo de meliantes do Orkut para organizar festas maneiras (vai rolar no próximo sábado, dia 2), mas que continua ligado nas falhas que rolam por lá:

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[Via Cocadaboa]