Informational

/ Don

Making a Bobble Head

With the tradition of “Making a…” photologs on [d]online, Mike and I decided to try making our own Papier-mâché Halloween Bobble Heads.

The process was pretty straight-forward:

  1. Create a form with chicken wire
  2. Cover the form with masking tape
  3. Cover that with papier-mâché strips
  4. Build up the details with more papier-mâché
  5. Paint with spraypaint
  6. Cut out the mouth and add teeth
  7. Detail with tempora paint

I think it came out pretty nice. You can see the skull for my skeleton and the pumpkin for Mike’s Headless Horseman costume.

I’ll let you know how the neighborhood kids receive it after trick-or-treating on Friday evening.

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/ Don

Trello Bookmarklet

Trello

Prefer the previous linear layout of Trello cards over the new layout? You can use a bookmarklet to inject styles into the DOM, reverting the layout to one wide column. Just create a new bookmark in your favorite browser’s bookmark bar and paste the following code for the link.

javascript:(function(){var style = document.createElement('style'); style.innerHTML = 'header ~ div[class] { display: block; overflow-y: auto !important; } header ~ div[class] main, header ~ div[class] main div, header ~ div[class] aside, header ~ div aside div { max-width: 100% !important; width: auto !important}'; document.head.appendChild(style);})();

 

/ Don

Clean URL Bookmarklet

Remove UTM tracking parameters from Chrome addresses before sharing.

Sick of manually removing the UTM tracking parameters from links you copy and paste in Chrome? Here’s a nifty little trick to automate the process.

In your Bookmarks bar, click “Add Page” and enter the Name (e.g., “CLEAN”). Then paste the following code into the URL:

javascript:(function(){let u=new URL(location.href);['utm_placement','user_id','utm_source','utm_medium','utm_campaign','utm_term','utm_content'].forEach(k=>u.searchParams.delete(k));prompt('Clean URL:', u.toString());})();

This will copy the URL and strip out the UTM parameters and present a prompt of the cleaned URL for you to copy and paste into messages, emails, or social media without the tracking data.

Pretty cool, eh?

/ Don

Speaking American, by Josh Katz

Josh Katz - Speaking American
Fireflies vs Lightning Bugs

Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can reveal where you grew up? In December 2013, Josh Katz released an interactive dialect quiz in the New York Times that became the most viewed page in the paper’s history. Now a graphics editor, Katz harnessed the overwhelming response to that quiz to create Speaking American, an extraordinary and beautiful tour through the American vernacular. Read more