Elsewhere, 10/11

In Rainbows, Radiohead
The official “In Rainbows” artwork

If you’ve downloaded Radiohead’s latest, In Rainbows, and are looking for some potential cover art, Darren has you covered.

It’s been a decade, but there is progress on the new Portishead album: “Portishead Album in the Mixing Stage, Says Band Blog”.

Blender has compiled a list of “The 40 Worst Lyricists In Rock”.

The latest version of OS X — “Leopard” — comes out later this month, and AppleInsider has been publishing a series of “Road to Mac OS X Leopard” articles that looks at some of the new features. The latest installment looks at “Spaces”, Leopard’s implementation of virtual desktops. Apple’s website has more information.

I’m not a WordPress user, but I do love the free themes that Design Disease has been cooking up, especially Illacrimo and Smashing Theme.

Lisa Wess continues her exploration into ExpressionEngine with an articles that focuses on one of my favorite EE features: custom fields.

Nathan Smith has put together “jQuery Crash Course”, a nice introduction to my fave JavaScript library: “I tend to think of jQuery as a universal translator of sorts. You know what I mean — the magic lapel pin that miraculously translates every alien dialect on Star Trek into intelligible English. jQuery is not unlike such a device. It is small, lightweight, and facilitates a common dialog among modern browsers. As long as you can logically formulate what you want to say, jQuery understands your intentions and will interpret for you regardless of which user agent is listening in.” Love the analogy and the example that Smith uses.

The “Mass Effect Alien Primer” is the latest bit of news to come out concerning Mass Effect, BioWare’s upcoming epic sci-fi RPG. And like every other bit of info that comes out for this game, it makes me want to play it right now!

I can’t help it: I love the trailer for Juno.

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