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Some time ago I backed the Syrp Genie (estimated delivery July 2012), but today I learned of the Radian and Astro. Unlike the Radian and Astro, the Genie supports linear motion, but it’s also much more expensive, bigger, and appears to have more complex controls.

Here are the videos for all three projects:

[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/syrp/genie-motion-control-time-lapse-device/widget/video.html]

[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/207087339/radian-a-motion-time-lapse-device-for-everyone/widget/video.html]

[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1530895202/astro-time-lapse-motion-control/widget/video.html]

Russel Houghten‘s Open Horizon is part skate film, part time lapse, and mostly awesome.

Then somebody pointed to this Jimmy Plmer/Z-Flex video that shares a number of features with Houghten’s work, but is less ambitious in scope. At least they did a behind the scenes video that shows the sweet Red camera and rails.

What other sites share the same infrastructure with your site, or any other? Bing‘s IP search can answer. Do a search by IP number:

• ip:72.233.127.217
• ip:158.136.1.105
• ip:72.51.52.15

The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple compiled the following numbers for the time it takes various tech sites to load in a browser in late 2011:

• The Loop: 38 requests; 38.66KB; 1.89 secs
• Daring Fireball: 23 requests; 49.82KB; 566 milliseconds
• Macworld: 130 requests; 338.32KB; 8.54 secs
• Ars Technica: 120 requests; 185.99KB; 2.08 secs
• Apple: 46 requests; 419KB; 1.39 secs
• CNN: 196 requests; 269.41KB; 4 secs
• BGR: 368 requests; 2.74MB; 35.33 secs
• AppleInsider: 141 requests; 649.39KB; 5.64 secs
• Facebook: 137 requests; 993.54KB; 11.19 secs
• MacStories: 119 requests; 2.16MB; 2.13 secs

John Gruber started this by calling out The Next Web for it’s slow performance:

• TheNextWeb: 342 requests; 6MB; no time info

More benchmarks can be seen at Browsermob.

IMDBAPI.com

Twitter front-end guy Nicolas Gallagher likes both CSS and speech bubbles enough to want them unadulterated by images and non-semantic markup. The lesson from his many examples is that it all comes down to an :after pseudo element that puts the little triangle in there:

.speechbubble:after {
    content:"";
    position:absolute;
    bottom:-15px; /* value = - border-top-width - border-bottom-width */
    left:50px; /* controls horizontal position */
    border-width:15px 15px 0; /* vary these values to change the angle of the vertex */
    border-style:solid;
    border-color:#f3961c transparent;
    /* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
    display:block; 
    width:0;
}

More examples on Nicolas’ site.

• Schema.org NewsArticle
• hNews
• rNews (and the war between rNews and hNews)
• Google News Technical Requirements

Research by Robert E. Hall and Susan E. Woodward shows that 87% of venture-backed firms exit for less than $10 million (67% exit for less than $1 million). In a world where Instagram can exit for $1 billion with no revenue or monetization plan, anything less than $10 million is an implosion.

Marathon and Marathon 2: Durandal are available as iOS apps. The classic Marathon Spoiler Guides might be good companions.

From the FAQ on the AirParrot site:

What does AirParrot do?

AirParrot lets you AirPlay your Mac’s screen to a second or third generation AppleTV. What you see on your Mac’s screen will appear on the AppleTV, wirelessly!

How do I use AirParrot?

Once you’ve opened AirParrot, click on the icon in your menu bar. Select the AirPlay device (such as your AppleTV) and then select which screen you want to mirror. To stop mirroring, simply click on the same AirPlay device in the menu!

Listen in with RadioReference.com’s index of live police, fire, EMS, and airport radio feeds in San Francisco.

Mark Pilgrim’s overview of HTML 5 form elements includes the following:

• Placeholder Text
• Autofocus Fields
• Email Addresses
• Web Addresses
• Numbers as Spinboxes
• Numbers as Sliders
• Date Pickers
• Search Boxes
• Color Pickers
• Form Validation
• Required Fields
• Further Reading

Six years ago this month the Zend framework preview was released and Rasmus Lerdorf published a blog post titled “The no-framework PHP MVC framework” (italics added). R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah noted irony.