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Posterous Theming: It's here, it's live, and it's time to make your site yours!
Posterous is proud to announce the ability to change the look and feel of your Posterous blog! It's been a long time coming, and are we ever excited about releasing this feature to you guys today.
Choose from five built-in themes
Including one designed by theme creator Bill Israel. And we've got a whole ton more on the way. We wanted to get this in your hands ASAP, and we'll be releasing more into the system as soon as we create them.
Be able to upload header images
Customize your blog by creating a custom blog header in your favorite image editor. Then just upload it and see it at the top of every page on your blog. No coding experience necessary.
And choose new colors
Want to change the link color? Switch something up? Use our color picker and you don't have to code a single line of HTML.
For people who want to customize to the max...
If you're an advanced user, designer, or engineer, now you can totally change the CSS and HTML layout of your site.
Not only that, Posterous Themes are Tumblr-compatible. We built the Posterous Theme Engine to work great with the thousands of existing Tumblr themes out there! Just drop the theme code into the "advanced mode" editor. Want to add commenting and favoriting? It's just a couple lines of simple HTML away. Read more about it in our theming docs.
Some examples of Posterous Themes in the wild...
Check out what Posterous super-themer Cory Watilo has built with full CSS / HTML customization:
Our friends at Mugasha, Vidly, and Tweetvite have all chosen Posterous to host their company startup blogs. Dustin Curtis is liveblogging his 30 day flight on JetBlue on posterous too!
So what are you waiting for? It's enabled on your Posterous blog now. Go to your Manage page, and click Edit Settings > Theme and Customize to get started.
How Apple brainwashes us: Just amazing neurolinguistic programming
via fakesteve.net
Oh my god, they should teach this in B-school if they don't already!!
Easy, incredible, and amazingly great, beautiful, stunning and awesome.
When I'm feeling down, I'm just going to turn off all the lights and watch this on repeat. It's like a mantra that can induce a trance-like product design state where one can create anything and obliterate any design obstacle!
Where's the pony?
A father... on Christmas Eve puts into one son’s stocking a fine gold watch, and into another son’s, a pile of horse manure. The next morning, the first boy comes to his father and says glumly, “Dad, I just don’t know what I’ll do with this watch. It’s so fragile. It could break.” The other boy runs to him and says, “Daddy! Daddy! Santa left me a pony, if only I can just find it!
via theatlantic.com
What a beautiful life
via youtube.com
Music by Gui Boratto, music video by Cadú Datoro. I've been really digging Gui Boratto and The Field lately -- very atmospheric, ambient, but with a driving beat.
An "Intel Star" TV ad -- Sponsors of Tomorrow
via youtube.com
I think this is pretty much how i got Kate.
HD video: San Francisco Cable Car ride from Powell St to Fisherman's Wharf, in 2 minutes
On Saturday we took the San Francisco cable car from the Powell St stop, where it turns around, all the way to Fisherman's Wharf. I shot the entire ride in 1080p with my Canon 5D. I'd never done the cable car ride before but now I highly recommend it. Make sure you are sitting in the front, or hanging off the side. It's a great way to see a lot of the city.
Check out the rolling fog over Alcatraz towards the end of the video. Very cool. Make sure you click to full screen the video, HD is on.
The Powell St station is also where the cable car turns around.
Details on the video: Canon 5D Mark II 1080p H.264. Edited on Final Cut Pro with ProRes 422. 1000% speed across the board. Exported to H.264 and then uploaded to Vimeo. The exported H.264 video still looks flawless on my machine, but Vimeo definitely added a lot of encoding artifacts. Boooo. You can click to download the quicktime video on the Vimeo page.
No, I'm not going to stop complaining about flash video. Get over it.
Yann Tiersen - J'y Suis Jamais Alle (Smoku Remix)
J'y Suis Jamais Alle (Smoku Remix) by Yann Tiersen
A recent love of my life. Big fan of Yann Tiersen, and this blew my mind.
Colletto Fava
Colletto Fava is a hill in the northern Piedmont of Italy. In 2005, Viennese art group Gelitin created a massive pink stuffed bunny on the side of the hill.
The bunny is about 200 feet in length and 20 feet high lying down. Other than being a work of art, the bunny is also a place for visitors to climb and relax on the top.
The bunny, named Hase, is expected to last until 2025.
