Jason Cosper

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  • Go Duck Yourself

    Following Ben Brooks’ lead, I’ve decided to replace my site’s search engine with DuckDuckGo. But all of the solutions he’s linked up have been a little fiddly and require editing your theme files. And while I’m okay with doing that, I realize a lot of folks probably aren’t.

    So I pulled together this little bit of form code:

    All you need to do is change “example.com” to your domain and drop the code in a text widget. Like this:

    Easy, right? Now nothing is stopping you from using DuckDuckGo as your WordPress site’s search engine!

  • Y’all Reddle For This?

    Like the new theme? Want to play with it on your site? Well, it’s not in the WordPress theme directory just yet. But it is in Automattic’s SVN repository…

    Grab Reddle via SVN and give it a whirl. And if you want to see what it’s capable of (or I’ve managed to change my theme) check out the demo at WordPress.com.

  • Hello

    I’m just going to go ahead and leave this here. You should probably watch it when you have a minute… (Thanks Sarah!)

  • You Are Exactly Where You Need to Be

    I need to remind myself of this sometimes. Especially when life gets complicated and I’m feeling overwhelmed.

    Thanks for making that, Morley.

  • Swissted

    I really wish these posters from swissted were real. Swiss design and punk rock are two things that I love like crazy.

    To be honest, if I had the opportunity, I’d probably buy way too many of them. So maybe it’s a good thing that they’re just images on the internets… [via]

  • Further Adventures in Ipsum

    Huh. A little Hipster Ipsum made it into Android’s Design Pattern documentation.

    P.S. Can’t find it? Look here. [via]

  • Shut Up and Play the Hits

    SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS Trailer (2012)

    There was talk that LCD Soundsystem was eventually going to release the footage from their three and a half hour long final show on DVD. And while I was pulling for that (and a decently mastered audio version) I’m almost more excited that it’s getting the documentary treatment with Shut Up and Play the Hits.

  • None More Blackletter

    Tim Denee has put together this really beautiful, free PDF calendar for 2012. If you’ve got a ream of A3 paper sitting around your office, don’t hesitate to print it off and hang it up. [via]

  • Check Yr Head

    I just found out about head.js, but it definitely seems like something I’m going to have to play with really soon. Fortunately, somebody has already made a WordPress plugin that leverages it — so I guess that I don’t really have much of an excuse for not looking into it now, do I? [via]

  • Plimpton & Hemingway

    He keeps track of his daily progress—“so as not to kid myself”—on a large chart made out of the side of a cardboard packing case and set up against the wall under the nose of a mounted gazelle head. The numbers on the chart showing the daily output of words differ from 450, 575, 462, 1250, back to 512, the higher figures on days Hemingway puts in extra work so he won’t feel guilty spending the following day fishing on the Gulf Stream.

    Reading these bits about Hemingway’s process from George Plimpton’s interview in the Spring 1958 edition of The Paris Review are fascinating. I mean, homeboy had a standing desk!

    A working habit he has had from the beginning, Hemingway stands when he writes. He stands in a pair of his oversized loafers on the worn skin of a lesser kudu—the typewriter and the reading board chest-high opposite him.