I love 99% of everything on cathyshive.net
Unique books of digital art displaying renderings of real time data feeds. Totally bad ass.
Written Images (by d_effekt)
The Joy of Mirror Making Mel Bartels Introduction A telescope mirror is the most accurate tool made by man or machine. Its precision is on the order of one part in twenty million. Making a telescope mirror is one of the great joys for human beings, the intelligent tool maker. Our experience begins with the varied sensations through the hands during grinding and carried through to the cerebral challenge of figuring the mirror to perfectly reflect light. Our experience both ends and begins using the mirror in a telescope to contemplate the mysteries of the universe and the meaning of life. (via Joy of Mirror Making: Introduction)
This person provides links to some good sheet music, including What’s This from Nightmare Before Christmas.
Arcade Fire’s HTML5 based interactive film with personalized Google Earth integration is one of the coolest web experiences I’ve ever seen.
In normal conditions (*), in iPhone OS 4.0, when Home is pressed, your app will go to the background but will NOT be kept running. It’ll be suspended, then resumed whenever the user gets back to it (whether via the Home screen, a URL being opened, or the new task switcher).
(*) Normal conditions are:
* You’re on iPhone 3GS or iPod touch 3rd gen or (presumably, but not Apple-announced) iPad when 4.x for it hits the scene this Sept.
* Your app is linked against (read: the Base SDK setting is) 4.0 or later.
* You haven’t opted out of backgrounding by adding the UIApplicationExitsOnSuspend key to Info.plist and setting it to boolean YES.
* You haven’t requested any particular background service. (See below.)