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Guest blogger Michelle Kemper Brownlow: I was listening to my 11-year-old daughter and her best friend talking while we were out shopping one day. "OMG, Snooki has one just like this!" the friend said.
Perhaps the issue is what you are allowing your daughter to watch? Maybe instead of blaming the issue on TV, blame yourself and other parents. You are responsible for your child, you do not have to allow them to sit in front of the television and watch these shows.
Wikipedia says Rainbow parties are an urban legend. However, I don't let my kids watch "reality" T.V.
Yeah, rainbow parties are an urban legend. Doesn't it just sound like some horny thirteen year old boy's fantasy?
Anyway, you don't have to let your children watch jersey shore. It's not like it's on every channel. If you bothered to put in the effort, you could find a lot better things to watch.
The point was…I DON'T let my children watch those shows…I was commenting on her FRIEND'S comment.
My children only watch TAME things on TV - even though they are both teens.
BTW, rainbow parties are NOT urban legend. I have a close family member who is a school counsellor and I can tell you without a doubt - you need to believe me when I say - THEY ARE REALLY HAPPENING! Don't be naiive!
Please, be nice and stop typing in all caps when you respond to people's comments. It make's you sound unreasonable.
i've been to a rainbow party…
sike! they're totally fake.
its useless. i don't think these programs should be shown to our children.
Where are you from?
Great info. Good to read. I've just got a small point to submit about t-shirts.
look im sorry ok i really dident mean to impregnate your daughter but hell she knew what she was doing dident know u were gona blame it on the tv
How about you spend more time watching out for the bad shows your kids are watching and less time complaining about it on the internet?
I agree, parents need to be more alert and responsible for their children. We parents need to set and enforce limits as to what our children watch, listen to and who they hang out with. That said, it seems almost futile when most other parents have way different values or do not impose boundaries. Although my kids do not watch these types of shows, they know all about them from discussion with their friends at school. Their friends know that certain topics are off limits for discussion at my home but I am not so naive as to think they do not just talk about the same things elsewhere…
As for "rainbow parties" I have a friend who works at a school and she walked into an "empty" classroom and busted 8 kids in the midst of one. It happens.


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Fic: Shatter The Walls For A New Sun {1/10}
Title Shatter The Walls For A New Sun 1/10
Rating PG-13 (will go up in later chapters)
Word Count 7,200/9,300
Summary AU in which Blaine was raised by highly religious parents and escapes to NYC with Quinn, moving in next door to Rachel and Kurt. (Alternately: Bible!Blaine meets NYC!Kurt. Shit happens.)
Notes Based on Blaine's outfit in 'Call Me Maybe' from 4x01. I posted the prologue on here a few weeks ago, and then went on vacation for ten days and sketched the rest of this out. I'm going to try to update this weekly, we'll see how that goes (this part is already over 2k longer than I planned and it was one of the shorter chapters). If you'd prefer, I'm updating this on LJ & AO3 as well.
Kurt wakes up early Sunday morning, going through his clothes to find the perfect thing to wear for coffee with Blaine and Quinn. He moves quietly as not to wake Rachel, though after living together in the loft for a year, they've grown accustomed to the open floor space and opposite schedules. He finally settles on one of his tried and true favorites just so he can jump in the shower before Rachel wakes and he has her to contest with. By the time he emerges, she's brewing tea, knowing they'll get coffee with their bagels, and he happily accepts a mug from her.
"Thanks, and good morning," he says with a smile, and she just smiles back, patting his arm in response and heading in the direction of the bathroom herself.
There's a knock on their door promptly at ten, and while Quinn looks bright eyed and well rested, Blaine looks a little bleary. They're dressed in almost exact replicas of the outfits they wore yesterday, Quinn in another sunwashed sundress and Blaine in another short-sleeved shirt (tight), cotton-blend slacks (also tight, there is a god), and a skinny tie. "You look like you could use some coffee," Kurt says in greeting, and then realizes, he doesn't even know if Blaine and Quinn drink coffee, though Blaine did suggest it. "Well, if you both drink it that is."
Quinn laughs, clear and bright, and shoves at Blaine's shoulder. "I stick to tea, but I think Blaine would mainline it if he could."
"Hey!" he protests, albeit a little belatedly. "I'm not that bad. I just have a few cups a day. I, um, need to pick up a coffee pot today, mine did not make the trip."
"Luckily, there are plenty of places that sell coffee pots in Bushwick," Kurt points out, before calling for Rachel, who teeters around the corner at the sound of her name.
The bakery is just down the street and Kurt and Rachel go on and on about their menu, as they've tried almost everything on it at this point. Kurt splurges on a mocha and an asiago bagel, telling Rachel his order before getting out of line to secure them a booth in the corner of the crowded restaurant, the bakery already bustling for a mid-Sunday morning.
"So, how was your first night in the new place?" Kurt hears Rachel ask as they head for the booth, Blaine balancing two bagels and two coffee cups in his hands. He offers one set to Kurt with a smile, which he gladly accepts.
"Good!" Quinn answers, sliding in across from Kurt, peeling back the paper wrapper on her plain bagel, already slathered with cream cheese. "We're almost completely unpacked, though I guess we didn't have much. We were able to leech off someone's wifi downstairs until we can get our own set up next week, and I slept okay - I don't think I can say the same for Blaine, though." She shoots Blaine a sideways glance and Kurt and Rachel exchange one of their own over their coffee cups.
"You really should take us up on our offer of the couch, Blaine! It's no trouble at all," Rachel says, reaching over to pat his hand across the table.
"Quick, we should get him to agree before his coffee has kicked in. I think that'll be easier," Kurt teases, his eyes twinkling as he winks at Quinn, and Blaine ducks his head bashfully, chuckling.
"It probably wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't been sleeping on couches already for a week," he mumbles, munching at his bagel, trying to ignore them all. "Okay, okay," he relents, holding up his hands. "You sure you don't mind me leaving you?" he softly asks Quinn, and she shakes her head.
"You'll be right next door." Quinn offers him a warm smile and wipes a tiny bit of cream cheese from the corner of his mouth. Blaine quickly grabs a napkin after that, and Kurt tries not to watch, but Blaine suddenly flustered is sort of endearing.
"It really shouldn't be too long," Blaine says once he finds his voice again. "I talked to the music director at our old church last night, and he gave me some leads on jobs to look into this week, so hopefully one of them will pan out."
"Well, for your sake, I hope you find something soon, but it really is no rush." Kurt locks eyes with Blaine for a moment, and he can tell how undeniably grateful he is.
It turns out in the midst of unpacking, Blaine and Quinn wandered around the neighborhood a bit last night, so they talk a bit about that, Kurt and Rachel answering the questions that pop up, like where the subway entrance is. Quinn mentions that she's going to head into the city to walk around Columbia that afternoon and try to get her bearings, and Rachel is headed to NYADA for for an extra dance rehearsal with a few of her classmates. She doesn't mind showing her the way, since the schools are fairly close.
"That just leaves you and me," Kurt quips with a grin, popping the last bite of his bagel in his mouth. "What do you have on the agenda aside from buying a new coffee maker?"
"Oh - nothing," Blaine stutters, almost spilling his coffee cup in the process. "I'm sure you have lots planned for the day, you don't have to -"
"Blaine," Kurt replies, laughing lightly. "I got all of my errands done yesterday afternoon. I have the whole day free. I can't think of a better way to spend the day than getting to know the guy that's going to be sleeping on my couch tonight."
It's Rachel and Quinn's turn to exchange a look, and he knows the girls will probably be talking about them the whole way in on the J train. "Oh. Well, when you put it that way …"
They head back to the apartments so Rachel can grab her dance bag and Quinn her laptop case and Kurt is back over at 3B ten minutes later asking Blaine if he's wearing comfortable shoes. Blaine glances down at his (stylish, if Kurt is being honest, worn in yet well cared for) black Oxfords and nods. "Yeah? Why, are you planning on taking me on a walking tour of New York or something?"
"Everything is a walking tour of New York, Blaine. You've never actually been here before, right?" Blaine shakes his head, and Kurt sticks his hand out, offering it to him (really, what is he thinking?). Blaine doesn't seem to think it's odd, just grins in response, placing his hand in Kurt's. Kurt marvels in the weight of Blaine's hand in his, how soft and strong it feels, opening his mouth before he can get caught up in his feelings too much. "Get ready to experience the greatest city in the world, Blaine Anderson."
Kurt babbles a lot once they're on the subway to break the ice, about Ohio and his dad and Carole and Finn and how he met Rachel and their years in glee club and McKinley. About how he ended up in New York and how he's coming up on a year at Vogue and how his internship is a twelve month contract, though they can keep him for another six months as just an intern, and he really, really hopes it turns into a permanent job there. How he knows his boss, Isabelle loves him (at least, he thinks she does, one can never be entirely sure), but it's not just up to her and he really hopes he doesn't have to wait around until March only to find out they're not keeping him.
Blaine listens with rapt attention, and Kurt realizes entirely too late that he's run his mouth their whole ride into the city. He tells Blaine this, feeling awful, to which Blaine replies, "Well, we have a return trip after all, don't we?"
He takes Blaine to Broadway first, delighting in the way his face lights up at the first marquee. "I always thought - maybe one day -" Blaine says, somewhat sadly, and Kurt's face lights up then.
"Blaine, maybe that's what you could do here! You could try out for NYADA next semester! I bet Rachel could put in a word for you -" but Blaine is shaking his head.
"I've never even been in a school play," he says, laughing somewhat sadly. "I've only watched performances on YouTube late at night with my headphones. I've never even seen a Broadway show, aside from the LA performance of Wicked. Quinn bought us tickets for my eighteenth birthday." Kurt stares at Blaine blankly for a moment … the way he's talking about watching Broadway performances sounds like the one time Kurt tried to watch porn, back when he was sixteen in his dad's basement.
Kurt's starting to wonder how religious Blaine's family actually is.
He squeezes Blaine's shoulder, figuring they should move on to Times Square. "Well, as someone wise once told me, dreams are always changing. That doesn't mean we should stop having them."
They head to Central Park after Times Square and sit on a bench to rest for a while, Kurt still enjoying watching Blaine take everything in. He wonders if he looked the same two years ago when he visited with the rest of New Directions and figures he probably did. He glances at Blaine, thinking about how New York City was always his plan and how Blaine mentioned it was a spur of the moment thing for him - he wonders what Blaine's original plan was. He figures Blaine will tell him eventually.
"How long have you known Quinn?" Kurt asks, breaking the silence, and Blaine snaps out of whatever's going on in his head to glance over at him.
"Forever," he answers with a chuckle. "She grew up down the street from me and our parents have always been good friends. We sort of grew apart in middle school, but these past few years have been rough for her - well, both of us, I guess, so, it's been good having each other."
"That's good," Kurt replies, deciding not to press for more. "As annoying as Rachel is sometimes - okay, most of the time, she really is a good person to lean on. It's good to have someone like that."
Blaine opens up a little more after that, talking again about growing up in southern California, how he has two parents that mean well but never actually come across that way and an older brother, who he calls Coop, which has to be a nickname for something. He went to small, private schools his whole life and he takes a deep breath before uttering the next sentence. "I'm … I'm gay. It's kind of why I'm here. I just thought you should know before I sleep on your couch, in case that changed things."
Blaine stares at his Oxfords and starts to curl in on himself, and Kurt just wants to wrap him in a giant hug. "Blaine, I am too," he says quickly, "and you don't have to tell me everything about why you're here right away. Rachel will just be happy to know you're not going to murder us in our sleep."
Blaine's head pops up, expression changing from wide-eyed shock to full out confusion. "I'm just joking," Kurt amends, laughing lightly and nudging Blaine's shoulder with his own. "But … I don't know. I thought maybe you were. That it might be why you were here, I mean. I didn't want to assume, but yesterday, I can't explain it, just the look in your face - it felt familiar. That's why I wanted to help."
Kurt looks up to find Blaine's grateful smile smiling down at him again. "You're a good person, Kurt."
He scoffs in return. "I don't know about that, but honestly, if you ever do want to talk, let me know."
They keep their conversations light after that, talk of the city and places Blaine read about or saw on TV that he wants to visit over the coming weeks. Their conversation flows and never falters and Kurt is pleased to find out he quite enjoys the man underneath the body he shamelessly lusted over yesterday, even if his first assessment is proving fairly accurate.
"I had a really good time today," Blaine says as they make their way up the stairs to the apartments late in the afternoon after stopping at a store to pick up a coffee maker for apartment 3B, his head lolling to the side a bit. "Thank you. For everything."
"Don't mention it," Kurt replies as they reach the landing. "Do you and Quinn have dinner plans?"
"We do, and I know you said it's not a problem, but I really don't want to monopolize all of your time. What time do you guys have to wake up in the morning? Do you have to go to bed early?"
Kurt pulls out his phone where he has Rachel's schedule for the semester built in for reference. "It looks like Rachel has to be on campus by nine, so she'll leave a little before eight. I don't have to be in quite as early since I'm staying late tomorrow - we're shooting a video for the website, so Isabelle gave me some errands to run, the last of which being bringing in lunch for the group, so I don't have to show up until about one. Rachel will probably start winding down around eleven?"
"I'll come over around ten-thirty to crash your couch then. I'm sure it'll be far more comfortable than the hardwood floor." They say their goodbyes and Kurt tries to quiet the fluttering in his stomach.
The fluttering doesn't go away when Blaine shows up at ten-thirty sharp, looking utterly adorable with damp hair in a plaid robe, complete with matching pajama pants, and a tight white shirt underneath, nor does it slow as Kurt tosses and turns late at night as he attempts to sleep, Blaine mere feet from him on the couch in the middle of the room.
Kurt suddenly regrets their open floor plan.
Since the following day is a rare day Kurt is allowed leeway to be lazy, he takes it, staying in bed until he hears the click of the door signaling Rachel's departure. It probably doesn't help matters that sleeping in the same room as Blaine didn't afford him a good night's rest. He stumbles to the bathroom, realizing belatedly he really hadn't thought this through - if you have a crush on someone, they shouldn't see you after you first wake up before you've actually slept together. That should be a rule somewhere.
Not that he really plans on sleeping with Blaine any time soon, he's not a complete idiot. He's fairly certain Blaine doesn't even like him in that way, and even if he does, if Kurt had a hard time finding someone to date in Ohio, he could fathom a guess Blaine would have had an even harder time finding someone where he's from. He pretty much screams inexperience from the rooftops. (Not that Kurt is one to judge. He's only had two semi-serious boyfriends himself since arriving in New York and can count the rest of his sexual encounters on one hand.) Plus, there's the point that he just met the guy.
(Still. The fact remains.)
He glances towards the couch before sneaking into the bathroom, and it looks as if Blaine is still nestled under the covers, a mess of bedhead himself - and okay, why is everything Blaine does adorable? Kurt's pretty sure his own hair looks like it's trying to take over his face - and sure enough, one look in the mirror confirms it. He spends a few minutes in the bathroom making himself look presentable before heading back out into the kitchen to make coffee. If Blaine's not already up, he's positive that's the way to wake him.
Sure enough, a few minutes later, he sees Blaine pulling on his robe and heading like a zombie towards the scent of the freshly brewed goodness. "Back towards the couch, sleepyhead," Kurt says, biting his lip so he doesn't laugh when Blaine almost runs into the corner of one of the cabinets. "Cream and sugar?" Blaine nods before heading back towards his makeshift bed and Kurt fixes them two mugs.
Kurt sits down on the couch next to Blaine, folding his legs under himself and offering Blaine one of them. Blaine takes a huge sip, despite it still being scalding, and sighs happily. "Thanks," he finally says with another sigh. "I'm not used to the time change yet. It's not even five am at home."
"Sorry -" Kurt starts to say with a wince, but Blaine shakes his head.
"No way, I've got to get used to it some time, right? And what better way to be woken up than with coffee hand delivered to you by … well, Kurt Hummel," Blaine finishes lamely, and Kurt wonders what he meant to say instead, but lets it slide since Blaine is so exhausted. He thinks he can see Blaine's cheeks blushing slightly, but he is downing hot coffee like it's going out of style.
"Did you sleep okay?" Kurt asks instead, changing the subject. Blaine simply nods, drinking more coffee, and Kurt continues. "I'm just glad we had a couch to offer you. We only got it a few months ago. We used to just have a bunch of throw pillows to sit on - we didn't want to break up the space, we used to say, but really, we were just cheap."
They both share a laugh at Kurt's comment, and Blaine says, "Well, I think the couch you did pick fits into your decor nicely, and it makes a pretty good bed too. Trust me, I've slept on like, five other couches this week."
They sip their coffee in silence for a bit, still trying to wake up, when Kurt finally asks, "What's the agenda for today? Going to follow up on those leads?"
Blaine nods, getting up to refill his coffee mug. "Yeah, hopefully I can set interviews up with some of them. They're aftercare programs at churches my music director had contacts at mostly, a few are ones looking for music director's assistants, but since I don't have a degree …" He trails off, stirring cream and sugar into his mug before returning to the couch. "I just want to make sure they're the right fit for me too. I, uh, don't want a job that'll require me to become a member of their church when they find I don't have an active membership anywhere. Quinn and I are sort of doing our own private worship until we can find a group of people whose beliefs align with ours."
"Oh!" Kurt says, because he's not quite sure how to respond to that. It's not as if he has any suggestions and it's the first time Blaine's put anything regarding his faith out there aside from the random mention of a church. Kurt doesn't want to act weird, because Blaine is his friend now, right? He knows Blaine needs friends right now, more than anything … even if said friends are atheist heathens who are probably going to hell in his mind.
"You're definitely right, an interview is just as much for you as it is for them. You don't want to be stuck in a job you hate. You have a smartphone, right? In case you get lost?" he asks, changing the subject. "You should probably grab an actual map too, because sometimes there's no cell reception."
"I do, Coop transferred my number to his plan right before I moved, just in case my parents decided to drop me." Blaine reaches for his overnight bag and pulls it out, swiping his fingers over the screen before asking nervously, "Can I - do you think I could get your number? Just in case I get really lost?"
"Blaine, of course," Kurt replies, grinning and taking the phone from his hands to enter his number. He sends a text from Blaine's phone to his before passing it back to him. "There, now I have yours too." He busies himself with saving Blaine's information to his phone when he looks up and sees Blaine holding the phone out in front of him.
"Smile!" Blaine says cheerfully, and oh no, he is not being saved to Blaine's phone with messed up hair before a shower, for goodness' sake. But Blaine seems serious, so he puts on his best smile anyway, and grabs the phone from him after. It's not awful, but still …
"Really? I can't just send you one to use where I'm not half asleep?" Kurt squeaks, and Blaine grabs the phone back.
"What are you talking about, you look adorable!" He grins and presumably sets it as Kurt's default picture, and oh, two can play this game. Blaine hasn't even looked in a mirror to see how his hair is curling up just so in the back of his head (and so what if Kurt thinks it's utterly charming; he somehow thinks Blaine would disagree with him).
"Well, well, well, Blaine, if you're going to insist, I think I do need a picture from you as well," Kurt says, faux-sweetness dripping in his voice, waiting for Blaine to look up from his phone and grin widely before snapping his own shot. Blaine pulls the phone from his hands the second the picture saves, nodding in approval and handing it back to him.
"I thought my hair would look way worse than that. Not bad." Blaine fiddles with his phone a little more before getting up and getting his things together. "I should probably head back so you can get ready for work and I can get ready for the day myself. Thank you again for the couch and the coffee, I'll bring your mug back tonight."
"I think I should keep a running tally of how many times you thank me, Blaine Anderson," Kurt says with a smirk, getting up to show him to the door.
"Just don't ask me to give you a dollar every time I do. Unemployed, remember?" He grins at Kurt one more time before waving and heading next door, and Kurt closes the heavy wooden door behind him. He opens his phone to the photos section to glance at Blaine's picture one last time before heading to the bathroom to get ready. His hair is just mussed enough to make Kurt grin and Kurt wonders how his eyes can be sparkling so much through a grainy iPhone photo in the dim lighting of their loft.
Even if they insist on taking new photos later, Kurt will be hard pressed to change his, he thinks, unable to stop grinning even as shuts off his phone and makes his way to the bathroom.
The week continues, Kurt far less talkative in the mornings when he has to leave the apartment before eight am instead of just waking up then, but he still tries to allow for a few minutes of morning chat with Blaine, sending him on his way next door slightly caffeinated but still half asleep. Blaine shows up on Wednesday night with a pound of coffee to replace what he's drank, and on Thursday morning, Kurt and Rachel's schedules line up where they can ride the train into the city together.
"So. Blaine," Rachel says as they collapse into the only two open seats they find as they fight their way through a car. "We've been busy and haven't had much of a chance to talk about him without him overhearing."
"What about Blaine?" Kurt asks, flattening himself up against the window, shifting so he doesn't wrinkle his outfit. "He's been a fine houseguest in my opinion."
"Of course he's been!" Rachel says, sipping from her travel mug. "He's very lovely, Quinn too. I'm glad they moved in next door. I think they'll become good friends."
Kurt stares at Rachel for a moment, knowing that she doesn't just want to talk about what wonderful friends Blaine and Quinn are going to make. "Out with it. Get to your point."
"Oh, nothing, I just thought you'd like to know that I think he's developed a little bit of a crush on you is all, in my honest opinion, of course. When you're not looking, his eyes definitely linger on you longer than necessary, and -"
"Okay, stop!" Kurt says, a bit too loudly, a few of their fellow subway riders not engrossed in their music collections turning to glance at him disapprovingly. He offers them an apologetic smile before dropping his voice. "Blaine's very cute and very nice, but he's got a lot on his plate, okay, and I haven't even known him a week, despite him sleeping on our couch for four nights, but honestly, the last thing he needs is all of this. You. And your … meddling."
Rachel gasps loudly, affronted at his accusation. "I was just trying to help," she pouts before returning to her travel mug of tea, muttering something else that Kurt can't quite make out.
"Thank you. For wanting to help," Kurt finally says, because she probably did mean well. "I just - what if he's never met anyone else gay before? What if what you're reading is merely fascination? No need to jump the gun, okay?"
"Kurt, you're not giving yourself enough credit," Rachel replies with a cluck of her tongue.
"Of course I am. I know I'm fabulous," he retorts instantly, and she giggles at that. "I just realize he could maybe use a few weeks to adjust, okay?"
"Okay, okay. For your sake, because you are my friend and you asked, I will stay out of it." Kurt smiles at her appreciatively, happy that he dodged that bullet early on.
New York Fashion Week starts the following week. Kurt is just an intern, so it doesn't mean he actually gets to attend any of the shows or parties associated with it, no, but it does mean he's at the Condé Nast building far, far later than normal formatting lists and blogs and vlogs with the information from the people who do get to attend to put up on the website. He barely sees Blaine, despite him still taking up permanent residence on the couch in 3A for eight to nine hours a night, though a few nights Blaine and Rachel decide to wait up for him, despite getting home after midnight, which Kurt finds utterly sweet.
The last show is on a Thursday afternoon, which means everyone is wrapping up their last pieces Friday morning (by Monday, anything relating to NYFW on the internet will be old news). Kurt is sitting at his desk, staring at his MacBook and counting down the hours until his precious, precious weekend that he so missed last week when Isabelle breezes by, telling him to cut out early, winking and shooing him with a file folder.
Kurt doesn't have to be told twice, gathering his things and trying to figure out what he should do first with his two and a half days of freedom. He wishes hotel rooms in New York weren't so expensive, because he could really kill for a bathtub right now, something their spacious loft does not afford. He checks his phone to see a missed call and a voicemail from Blaine and grins without thinking.
Hey Kurt! I know you're at work and I don't want to bother you, but I got some good news and wanted to share. I got one of the aftercare jobs I interviewed for! So I'll be off your couch ASAP! It was one of the jobs I had a really good feeling about, I think it'll be a good fit. I'm actually about to go out now shopping for a futon because Quinn finally sold the car and convinced me to split the cost with her, so as soon as they can deliver it, I'll be out of your and Rachel's hair. Hope your day is going well! Talk to you soon!
He checks the timestamp on the call and sees Blaine only called an hour ago. He quickly calls Blaine back to see where he is. "Hi Blaine, it's Kurt," he says when Blaine picks up. "Congrats on the job!"
"Thanks!" Blaine says, and Kurt can practically hear the smile through his phone. "I hope I wasn't bothering you at work -"
"No, I just got off, Isabelle actually let me go early. Where are you, exactly?" Kurt asks, because it sounds busy, so he's certainly not at home, nor is he someplace buying a futon.
"I'm - I'm getting off the subway? It sounds really silly now, because I came into the city because I didn't know any places in Bushwick to shop, but how in the world will I get a couch all the way back? So, now I'm here and I just - I have no idea what I'm doing." Kurt tries not to laugh because Blaine sounds so defeated and he just landed himself a job that morning, there's no room for that.
"Okay, here's what's going to happen, because I am literally just walking out of work now. I'm going to come find you and we'll go to lunch, because I'm starving, and if you've already eaten you can at least tell me about this amazing new job of yours. Then we'll go back to Bushwick and find you a futon a little closer to home, sound like a plan?" Kurt steps out of the building, slipping on his sunglasses and adjusting the strap on his satchel before walking out into the warm mid-September day.
Blaine sighs in relief. "I'd like that," he tells Kurt before trying to explain to him where he is.
It's nice to catch up with Blaine, hearing about his new job, which he just interviewed for on Wednesday. Blaine tells him a little bit about the other interviews he went on, and how he'd still like to find something a few mornings a week since the aftercare job is only thirty hours a week. He's thinking about asking the bakery. He asks Kurt about Vogue, and Kurt tells him a few stories from the week, trying not to bore him with too many details, but Blaine seems to enjoy his tales, asking questions and laughing when appropriate and - it's just all so easy. As if they've known each other far longer than three weeks, which shouldn't even count considering Kurt's spent the past week practically living at his internship.
Kurt asks about Quinn on the train ride back, and Blaine says she's enjoying her classes. She picked up a part-time job at one of the libraries, so she hasn't been around much either. He's able to fill him in about Rachel's week as well, since they've had dinner a few nights, being the only ones around. "I didn't mean to take over your life," Blaine jokes as they step out of the subway station at Bushwick. "Stealing your friends, sleeping in your apartment. What's next?"
Kurt just shrugs in response. "I don't know. Before you know it, I might actually be dressing like you," he says, the words slipping out of his mouth before he can think, and he sees Blaine's expression fall a little at his words. Oh shit. "Blaine, it was just a joke. While your clothes wouldn't look good on me, I happen to think they look amazing on you."
"Yeah?" Blaine asks, smiling slightly, though he still doesn't seem like he quite believes him, so Kurt reaches out for his hand.
"Definitely," and his voice keens a little high at that, which was totally unintentional and he can feel the blush rising in his cheeks. Blaine must notice too, because he glances bewilderedly at Kurt, so he clears his throat and drops Blaine's hand. "I mean, I am Kurt Hummel, self-proclaimed fashionista and Vogue intern, would I ever steer you wrong? Come on, let's go find you a couch."
They end up finding one at a store only a few blocks away and Kurt talks the salesman into delivering it with one of the other guys when they get off in a few hours for twenty bucks each. They head back to 3B to wait and Kurt realizes he hasn't been back to the apartment after Quinn and Blaine unpacked.
"Oh, wow," Kurt says, because for all of the time Blaine's spent in 3A over the past three weeks, it seems kind of foolish for him not to have seen how Blaine and Quinn have been making a home next door. There's still a lot of empty space, sure, but there's a tiny square table with four chairs pushed up near the kitchen area with Blaine's laptop set up on top of it, and Quinn's air mattress is made up like an actual bed with a dresser next to it, a lamp and a mirror on top. There are four mismatching bookcases pushed up against one wall, the bottom shelves filled with books - Kurt doesn't inspect the titles too hard, but he does notice a few worn Bibles - the top shelves decorated with picture frames and a vase with brightly colored flowers in it.
Kurt picks up one of the picture frames, a picture of a tiny Blaine and Quinn encased in it - they can't be more than six or seven, dressed in their Sunday best, Quinn in a ruffly white dress with a matching hat and lace-trimmed socks and white patent leather shoes and Blaine in an almost exact replica of what he's got on today, though far less tight, the tie much wider, and with penny loafers with brand new shiny pennies in them.
"You two were adorable," he says, setting down the frame, wanting to move on to the others, but Blaine comes up behind him and picks it up himself. He smiles and laughs a bit before walking towards the kitchen.
"I'm going to make some coffee. You're probably exhausted. You don't have to wait with me if you want to head home." Blaine's voice sounds different, and Kurt can't tell if he actually wants him to go, or he's actually ready to talk and is too afraid to ask. He takes the chance.
"Coffee actually sounds great," Kurt says, sitting down at the table. He waits for Blaine to join him, wondering if he should say something else, but then Blaine is standing next to him, offering him a steaming mug.
"Quinn … she's always been there for me," Blaine starts as he sat down across from Kurt. "She was the first person I ever told I was gay. I told her October of my freshman year of high school. I don't know why I told her, of all people, we really weren't as close as we were when we were kids. She was a cheerleader and I was really into choir and we just grew apart, but … I just knew she wouldn't judge me, like some people would. And then right after - she told me she was pregnant. She'd just found out, and hadn't told anyone either, so we had each other's secrets. She'd been seeing this guy from public school, her parents didn't even know she was dating someone and she didn't even know what she was going to do …"
Kurt's eyes grow wider because he hadn't seen that one coming. He takes a sip from his mug as to not interject and just let Blaine talk. "Her parents found out over Christmas break and wanted to send her to some farm in Iowa or something until she had the baby so no one would ever know, and she refused, so they kicked her out. She ended up living with Coop for the rest of the school year in LA, he had just sort of gotten started with his job and they found a really nice couple to place the baby with. She came back and her parents acted like nothing had ever happened, made up some excuse with the school like she'd gone on some 'spiritual retreat' with Coop's ministry, but there were rumors, and all of her old friends talked about her behind her back, and she quit cheerleading and joined the choir with me, and looking back, it probably was not the year to decide to come out." Blaine scrubs his face with his hands before taking a fortifying sip of coffee.
"So, it was you and Quinn versus the school," Kurt offers, drinking from his own mug.
"It wasn't just us," he amends, tracing patterns on the worn, wooden table with his fingertips, swooping lines back and forth. "We had a few other friends from choir, but the school was small, you know? There was this one kid, Andy, I honestly have no idea if he was gay or not, I don't know if he even knew yet - but either way, I think he kind of looked up to me. I was the head of the choir my junior and senior years and he was a year below me. At the end of my junior year, we were out on the quad, and we were holding hands, because we were praying, of all things, but this group of seniors thought, I don't know, that we were being too gay for them, so they just … beat us up. It was too close to graduation and they weren't going to not let them graduate, so they … all they did was suspend them for the rest of the year. I think they knew that too, like they'd been waiting all year to do it, they knew they couldn't get kicked out … I don't know. I don't think the school administrators believed we were praying either. Andy didn't come back the following year and Quinn graduated."
"Oh, Blaine, that's … awful," Kurt says, reaching across the table for Blaine's hand on instinct, not even thinking how different things are for him here, how that very act got him beat up in his old life back in California. He squeezes it tightly for comfort and he can see a faint smile curling on Blaine's lips.
"Quinn got into Columbia and she figured her parents would help her, but they refused since she wasn't going to one of the California schools, so she took a year off to save money and moved to LA and my brother got her a job working for him answering phones."
"Like a receptionist?" Kurt asks, bringing his coffee mug to his lips with his free hand.
Blaine's mouth twists into an odd smile Kurt can't place before continuing. "Sort of. It was expected that I go to Pinewood, since my grandfather and my dad and Coop all went there, it's this Christian college out in California, so it's the only place I applied, and I got in. I was going to major in music and hopefully become a music director at a church one day, because I've always had a great relationship with the music director at ours. Theo's always been a mentor to me, and his sister is bi, so he's always been someone I felt I could be honest and open with. I don't think he's going to last too much longer at our church, sadly." Kurt watches Blaine get lost in his head a moment, and there's another story there, but he doesn't dwell on it and surges forward.
"Anyway, my dad sits me down over spring break to tell me that Pinewood isn't going to tolerate the gay stuff, so I better man up and pretend for four years. I didn't know what to say, so when I got upstairs, I did some research, and they actually kick openly gay students out. It's against their honor code. I don't know why I didn't look into this before I applied, I just thought - I obviously wasn't."
"So, you're here instead." Kurt tilts his head and smiles sadly and clasps his other hand on top of the two that are already joined together. "I have to say, I think this is a much better deal, though I'm probably being a bit selfish here." He scrunches up his nose as he says it and Blaine laughs.
"Quinn convinced me to come with her, even though I'm pretty sure my parents have disowned me, and I really, really, have no idea what I'm doing, which you've probably figured out by now and I think I sound like a broken record because I keep mentioning it. There will be a lesson at the end of it all, I'm sure."
"See, that's what I don't get," Kurt banters back, narrowing his eyes. "You people are always looking for the lesson in life. Sometimes life just sucks. Sometimes there's nothing to learn from an experience other than the world is a cruel, cruel place."
"Ah, but that itself is a lesson," Blaine teases, eyes bright as he grins before turning serious. "I want you to know, Kurt, just because I believe in God and a lot of people who do believe in God think I'm a horrible person for being gay, I don't think that for a second. The God I believe in loves everyone no matter what and it frustrates me when people don't realize that."
"Well, good," Kurt says quietly. "You're a good person, Blaine, and it would make me very sad if you hated yourself, even a little bit." They fall into a comfortable silence, Kurt noticing that Blaine's free hand has ended up on top of his, all four of their hands in a pile in the middle of the kitchen table, each of them feeling far heavier than they should, the giant, spacious loft feeling suddenly small and warm, and the silence is shifting to something far less comfortable.
Blaine breaks contact first, clearing his throat and pulling back a hand to wrap around his coffee mug, taking a sip to further clear his voice as Kurt helps untangle the rest of their hands. "I'm really glad you and Rachel ended up being our neighbors, Kurt. You've been a good friend." Blaine's smile is soft, but genuine, though Kurt's sure there's not a disingenuous bone in his entire body.
"I'm glad too, Blaine." Who knew out of all of the eccentric people he'd meet in New York City, small-town Blaine Anderson from California would be the one to grab Kurt's interest the most?

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We are currently renovating this room which was part of the original farmhouse. I placed a vase of daffodils in the window and with a little Photoshop magic – changed day to night!
How beautiful, very creative photo!
Thank you so much Ellen – so glad you liked it! xxx
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beautiful work,,, well done
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this is beautiful Angela
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Good to hear from you my friend! xxx Glad you liked it – this is one of the windowsills that Jasper loves to sit and watch the world from – think I am going to have cushions there instead of flowers to keep him happy! lol xxx
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QUESTION: Due to climate change, organized crime and fraud, the price of these is at an all time high! In fact it can be 4 time more expensive per ounce than gold?
A: Truffles, Gold is currently $1616/ounce at 3.3 pound truffle sold for $330,000…that's $6150/ounce. (low summer rainfall in Europe, criminal activities including robbing truffle prospectors of their crops and dogs and the fraudulent importation of low quality Asian truffles, the price for truffles has skyrocketed.)
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Zony Gordon And Cecily Willis Present Their Watercolor Art At Fast Frame [1]
Santa Clarita Artists' Association [3] members, Zony Gordon [4] and Cecily Willis [5], presented their watercolor artwork at Fast Frame [6] in Valencia on Saturday, June 8th. Their exhibition is titled "Two For the Road" and will be on display until June 30th. Gordan's work is inspired by Santa Clarita's nature and the community, while Willis enjoys being able to pursue her passion for watercolor after retiring from a long career as a graphic designer. All of the work at the exhibition was done in watercolor. A live artist demonstration will be on June 22.


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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Missing A Play A Pie and A Pint? Not to worry... We have an evening theatre show on here at Oran Mor on September 2nd.
[ neh - see -ens ] written by Gabriel Robertson
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. When a terrorist attack rocks Glasgow's bohemian West End, the impulses of two men take over.
Friday 2nd September
Doors 7pm, Show Starts 7:30pm
Tickets £7 from Ticketweb at this link
or from the main bar at Oran Mor.
I popped along on impulse to see this, without knowing much about it. I frequently visit Oran Mor for their play, pie and pint plays, so I thought at worst, it's be ok.
To say I was pleasantly surprised is an understatement.
The play was totally different from what I was expecting, with a strange take on the usual 3 act structure. Light shows, sound only portions and only a second act that consisted of actors was as fresh as it was intelligent.
Not knowing any of the names involved turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Paul Cassidy as John was great, Scott Campbell as Mark was mesmorizing and the script was multilayered with tension, drama and at times outright hilarity. The direction of the play was sleek and composed; why have I not heard of this guy?
I will eagerly look out for anything involving the guys from now on and highly recommend you do the same!
5 stars!
Agreed. Didn't know much about the play, but had seen one of the actors before. Still though, what a fantastic play. My only criticism; it was too short!
Really enjoyed it. Highly recommend if it comes back.
I also saw this play on Friday. I really enjoyed the show however I felt that it could have done with another weeks rehearsal. The performances were fine, however one of the cast looked a bit lost at times. Sitting at the back I wasn't able to hear a lot of the dialogue, and at times I could only hear Scott Cadenhead who seemed to be the only one able to use his voice and project. and for me he stole the show with wonderful comedic moments. I hope this show gets another chance and that we get to see this play again. Can't wait to see the season of plays at Play, Pie and a Pint, I wish they'd put some of those plays on at night.


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The Modern.ie Virtual Machine Images – VMs used for testing several versions of IE – are now also available as vagrant boxes. Here's the list:
Use it like one would normally add & init & up a box:
$ vagrant box add {title} {url}
$ vagrant init {title}
$ vagrant up
Full independent control of Shutter, ISO, White Balance, Focus, Exposure Bracketing
In Computer Science, it can be hard to explain the difference between the easy and the virtually impossible
One of the things I miss in cPanel is a way to mass delete forwarders. With the current version of cPanel you need to click the delete link next to each forwarder. Above that you don't actually delete that forwarder upon clicking, you are taken to a confirm page where you need to click "confirm" in order to actually delete it. Deleting 100 entries can therefore take up quite a lot of time.
To speed things up I've knocked up a little JavaScript which:
Usage would be something like this:
(You might need to allow popups in your browser for your cPanel URL though)
A common occurrence I have noticed in MySQL apps is that MD5 values are stored as 32 byte values rather than 16. Just to 'rehash', an MD5 value is a 16 byte hexadecimal value, typically used as a unique fixed-length signature of a string, useful for identifying unique strings or one-way encryption of passwords. The binary representation takes 16 bytes (e.g.
BINARY(16)), though a human readable hexadecimal version takes twice as many (e.g.
Same goes for IPv4 address, which can be stored as
UNSIGNED INT (4 bytes) instead of
VARCHAR(16) (16 bytes)
var heatmap = h337.create({
container: domElement
max: 5,
data: [{ x: 10, y: 15, value: 5}, ...]
A Google Maps plugin is also available
heatmap.js – Dynamic Heatmaps for the Web →
Gmaps Heatmap Layer Plugin →
Are you reading A Song of Ice and Fire for the first time? Have you heard that volumes four and five – A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons – cover the same time period but split up the characters, so that most of the people who appear in Feast don't show up in Dance and vice versa? Are you interested in recombining the two halves of the story in hopes that it'll make for a more satisfying reading experience? Here's how you do it!
A new reader–friendly combined reading order for A Feast for Crows & A Dance with Dragons →
(Hat tip, Michel)
Before you develop your app, it's important to become familiar with the technical, content, and design criteria that we use to review all apps. We've highlighted some of the most common issues that cause apps to get rejected to help you better prepare your apps before submitting them for review.
58% of all rejections are linked to only 10 reasons.
A definition of a card (on the web) by Khoi Vinh:
A card is a single unit of content or functionality, presented in a concise visual package. More advanced cards use that form to surface content or functionality from other apps, and allow users to interact with that content or functionality directly in the context of where a user encounters the card.
Think embeddable tweets for example. Speaking of: those Twitter Cards just got taken to the next level as it's now possible to make a purchase directly from within the card (pictured above)!
A term to remember:
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
Betteridge's law of headlines →
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A sublime plugin complete with ionic framework snippets
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The PHP Coding Standards Fixer tool fixes most issues in your code when you want to follow the PHP coding standards as defined in the PSR-1 and PSR-2 documents.
If you are already using PHP_CodeSniffer to identify coding standards problems in your code, you know that fixing them by hand is tedious, especially on large projects. This tool does the job for you.
POV and vehicles on Wes Anderson's cinema.
Map Glyphs has hundreds of scalable vector map icons of the world, continents, globes, countries and states.
Something like 90% of websites that use SSL encryption use an algorithm called SHA-1 to protect themselves from being impersonated. This guarantees that when you go to green lock for facebook.com, you're visiting the real Facebook and not giving your password to an attacker.
Unfortunately, SHA-1 is dangerously weak, and has been for a long time. It gets weaker every year, but remains widely used on the internet. Its replacement, SHA-2, is strong and supported just about everywhere.
Google recently announced that if you use Chrome, then you're about to start seeing a progression of warnings for many secure websites
Why Google is Hurrying the Web to Kill SHA-1 →
Check your site for weak SHA-1 certificates →
Hyperlapses are a special kind of time lapse where the camera is also moving. Capturing hyperlapses has traditionally been a laborious process that involves meticulous planning, a variety of camera mounts and professional video editing software. With Hyperlapse, our goal was to simplify this process. We landed on a single record button and a post-capture screen where you select the playback rate. To achieve fluid camera motion we incorporated a video stabilization algorithm called Cinema (which is already used in Video on Instagram) into Hyperlapse.
Hyperlapses are a special kind of time lapse where the camera is also moving. Capturing hyperlapses has traditionally been a laborious process that involves meticulous planning, a variety of camera mounts and professional video editing software. With Hyperlapse, our goal was to simplify this process. We landed on a single record button and a post-capture screen where you select the playback rate. To achieve fluid camera motion we incorporated a video stabilization algorithm called Cinema (which is already used in Video on Instagram) into Hyperlapse.
Funny short, featuring Walt & Jesse from Breaking Bad, to promote the upcoming Emmy awards.
The Denny has integrated brake lights and turn signals, a no maintenance belt drive instead of a chain, and a removable handle bar that doubles as a bike lock. Sensors tied to a microprocessor can detect if the cyclist is struggling up a hill and automatically downshift or upshift to make an easier ride. The technology is also tied to an eAssist battery-powered motor in the front hub that kicks in when the bike is going uphill.
jQuery plugin which anticipates on which element the user is going to hover/click
Cool idea! Experimental/buggy though.
A UX Idea: I know where you are aiming! →
jQuery.aim source (GitHub) →
jQuery.aim examples →
Click the icon marked with the pink-ish circle to open Device Mode. Click the icon marked with the red circle to activate the Media Query Inspector. One can quickly choose a device and also throttle the network using the blue and orange dropdowns at the top.
You might have to enable Devtools Experiments in Canary via
chrome://flags/#enable-devtools-experiments to see all this.
The ISEE-3 was launched to study the Sun in 1978, but ended up redefining space flight. Now it's on a new mission to become citizen science's first spacecraft, with data accessible by everyone.
Very cool mission, with a very neat website. A must watch.
We present a method for converting first-person videos, for example, captured with a helmet camera during activities such as rock climbing or bicycling, into hyperlapse videos: time-lapse videos with a smoothly moving camera.
Microsoft Research: First Person Hyperlapse Videos →
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When clicking an item, Waves injects a
<div> on top of the clicked item, yet at
scale(0). Using a transition, the growing effect is achieved after – via JavaScript – setting a new scale value.
Critical CSS opens a page in a browser from the command line, sets the window width to a specified width and height (default is 1200 x 900), and analyzes which styles are applied to elements that fall within the visible portion of that viewport. It then writes those styles to a file that you can include inline in any page.
Entirely written in Javascript. Free. Modular. Hackable.
From a technological point of view I find this very impressive. Interesting first use experience, explaining how it works. Uses Chromium as its rendering engine. Tagline should be A browser from the HTML5 era though, I think.
With LiveShare PS you can now broadcast any Photoshop document to as many people as you want through an instant LiveShare meeting. If you make a change to your Photoshop document, they'll instantly see your changes in the LiveShare meeting—you don't even have to hit the save button!
Want to do this kind of stuff on a website? Use the aforementioned TogetherJS
Ionic offers a library of mobile-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Built with Sass and optimized for AngularJS.
Whilst Sass is just an extra (you don't really need it), the true power is the fact that Ionic's logic is built on top of AngularJS within a Cordova environment:
Ionic utilizes AngularJS in order to create a framework most suited to develop rich and robust applications. Ionic not only looks nice, but its core architecture is for serious app development, and AngularJS ties in perfectly.
It really does tie in perfectly. Most of the Ionic JavaScript UI Components either ship with a delegate or provide a controller which you inject as a dependency, AngularJS style:
angular.module('LoadingApp', ['ionic'])
.controller('LoadingCtrl', function($scope, $ionicLoading) {
$scope.show = function() {
template: 'Loading...'
$scope.hide = function(){
Having fiddled with Cordova and having built an AngularJS app before (with ngRoute, ngResource, etc.), the transition to Ionic went absolutely smooth. In under 24hrs time – excluding some preliminary research in which I converted my previously built AngularJS app to an Ionic flavored version – I went from no app to having an Ad Hoc distribution of the EV-Point.be iPhone app.
EV-Point 0.0.4 screenshots
The app, in its current state, allows one to:
You can see the app actually perform such a remoteStart/remoteStop in this video I made last night:
Here's how it works, in case you're interested: The app sends an XHR request to the EV-Point API. After validation of all data and tokens, the API instructs the Central System to send a RemoteStart OCPP-J request to the Charge Point. After acknowledgement of that request by the Charge Point, the Charge Point will actually start the transaction and notify the Central System that it has started. Concurrently, the app will long poll the Central System to detect the change in connectorstatus (from available to occupied), and update the UI accordingly. I also wrote the mentioned API and Central System for this (still ongoing) project.
Please note that action in the video was performed using a testplug, just imagine an electric vehicle being connected to the other side of that small cable.
If you're a frontend web developer wanting to dive into app development, I'd really recommend Ionic. It smoothly allows one to create a native-like app, in a very short period of time, without the need to learn a whole pack of new stuff. If you know AngularJS, you already know Ionic. Next to the ease of use, a big plus of Ionic is that it ships with excellent documentation and a lot of interactive examples for one to learn from. Above that the community (Forums, GitHub, etc.) are thriving.
Ionic Framework →
Ionic Framework Docs →
Ionic on CodePen →
Learn Ionic →
JavaScript countdown (or up) script with split-flap flip effect. Used it in a recent project and works like a charm. Only downside is that it's
px based, but that can be overcome. Be sure to also click that "Developer API" link on the site, as the main page itself does not hold all needed information to tweaking it.
Related: Two years ago a few students of mine experimented with actual splitflaps. You can see the result here.
FF Franziska is a typeface suited for long text: discreet, functional and modern, but with real personality. To give you lots of flexibility in your design and production, FF Franziska provides not only good legibility in the body text, but also interesting characteristics in larger point sizes.
Lovely typeface, with a lovely site covering its design process.
Navdy is a breakthrough HeadUp Display (HUD) aftermarket car console that allows drivers to access their smartphone's apps while keeping their eyes on the road. Navdy combines a high quality projection display with voice and gesture controls to create a safer, highly intuitive driving experience. Combining advanced display technology with touchless controls means drivers no longer need to fumble around with their phone to navigate, communicate or control their music.
That's a referral link above. If you pre-order one, I'll get a $30 refund.
Behind the scenes at The British Government Digital Service (GDS):
Lots of people ask me what our design process is like at GDS. I thought I'd write some of that down in a place I can point to. It's worth saying that we don't follow this slavishly. We're flexible and we optimise for meeting user need and for delivery. Consistent not uniform. None of this is revolutionary and it's probably how lots of you work. But people ask, so broadly, this is how we work.
What's the design process at GDS? →
The people at GDS really know their stuff: See these Design Principles Worth Noting and this excellent We're not 'appy. Not 'appy at all.
I'm always interested in the development details of other products, particularly their styleguides and approach to CSS. Given my penchant for the otherwise inane CSS details, I decided to write a bit about GitHub's CSS.
Always great to see how a company organises its code. It's an honest piece, also covering stuff that should improve.
Related: Did you check out Github's Styleguide yet?
Every single CEO of any IT company wants to build software faster. Time is the most expensive and valuable resource. You can't waste it on re-work, refactoring, meetings, physical activities. Right? It depends…
Many companies grow up, slow down, and die. Good development pace is essential for surviving.
Unfortunately options 1 (Extreme Sprint) and 2 (Moderate Sprint) described sound awfully familiar and remind me of some of my previous employers. Luckily I encountered option 2 first, making me act swiftly when I encountered option 1 — After only 3 months I quit the employer that was in constant extreme sprint and required of me to do the same (which I did not).
If you're wondering what it is to be a lecturer in a domain that is in constant flux: it's the fourth option described, but with bigger spikes. We constantly alternate between moderate sprints (and sometimes an extreme spring, hoping to get my course materials finished in due time), followed by a lengthy period of relaxation during summer recess.
Speed in Software Development →
Want to know more about my job as a lecturer web? Here you go: On Web Development and Education →
Quite a simple technique: use
:before and
:after to inject two colored panels, each taking up 50% of the height. Then lay your inverted icons on top of them, and presto.
Icons Filling Effect →
Icons Filling Effect Demo →
If you like this, you'll definitely like these too:
Neat installation which projects a map onto tiles, and then morphs those tiles to make the installation resemble the actual changes in altitude of the map projected.
Windows Phone 8.1 Update includes hundreds of Internet Explorer 11 enhancements that greatly increase compatibility with the mobile web.
We updated the User Agent string in IE on Windows Phone to increase the number of sites that would correctly deliver the best mobile content.
In Windows Phone 8.1 Update, we added a mapping of popular webkit-prefixed APIs to the standards based support already part of IE11. This means that sites that only send WebKit code are translated into standards based code as the page loads.
Unfortunately it's us, web developers, that have forced the Internet Explorer team into doing this. Let's just we hope we don't make the same mistakes again.
Forward to the 16:00 mark to get a good overview of how browsers go from receiving a tad of CSS to actual pixels on screen, a process known as the rendering pipeline:
If you like reading more than watching a video, a write-up is also available: Pixels are expensive →
Note: If you've been reading the posts here on bram.us tagged performance, you'll most likely already know this stuff. It's a good refresher nonetheless.
Human helps people move almost twice as much in six weeks. Every day, people track millions of activities with our app. We visualized 7.5 Million miles of activity in major cities all across the globe to get an insight into Human activity. Walking, running, cycling, and motorized transportation data tell us different stories.
The site sports some very neat maps, generated per type of activity (walking, running, cycling, …). Take this cycling map of Amsterdam for example:
sudo hcitool -i hci0 cmd 0x08 0x0008 1E 02 01 1A 1A FF 4C 00 02 15 B9 40 7F 30 F5 F8 46 6E AF F9 25 55 6B 57 FE 6D 00 0C 00 17 C5 00
iBeacons are really really simple devices. [...] Cloning prevention is hard to implement, as there is no connection happening between client and device that would allow the device to uniquely identify each mobile phone, or the other way round.
Google's "Material Design" recreated using Keynote. Wasn't even aware of the "magic move" effect Keynote sports. The
.key file itself can be downloaded right here.
Note: Ever since last year we've been seeing quite a lot of these type of animations being sported on websites. Be it animations linked on the current scroll position, animations triggered at a specific scroll position, or interfaces that transition from one state to the other. Recent developments such as velocity.js are accelerating the spread of motion design on the web, yet – still – I'm eagerly awaiting the (very powerful) Web Animations API. Luckily a Web Animations Polyfill already exists.
This visualization displays the data for one random NYC yellow taxi on a single day in 2013. See where it operated, how much money it made, and how busy it was over 24 hours.
There are filmmakers we love and then there's Michael Bay. Even if you dislike him (as I do), Bay has something valuable to teach us about visual perception. This is an exploration of "Bayhem" — his style of camera movement, composition and editing that creates something overblown, dynamic and distinct.
Watch this if you – like me – are a movie fanatic.
Neat 3D – WebGL powered – music video: one side contains the actual song/videoclip, other sides of the cube contain separate channels: vocals, bass, etc. Depending on how you rotate it, you can create your own mixdown of the song.
Related: Over the Hills →
Quickstart to working with the aforemetioned Velocity.js.
Faster UI Animations With Velocity.js →
Sidenote: Motion Design is a required skill for designers, see Material for example.
PunchClock is an in/out tracking app for iOS 7+. It uses a combination of a geo-fence and iBeacon tracking, plus a simple Sinatra backend hosted at Heroku.
See who's in the office and who's not … automagically. By the folks over at Panic.
PunchClock Source (GitHub) →
PunchClockServer Source (GitHub) →
PunchClock: Fun With iBeacons →
Just ike the score: Hallucinatory. Just watch that spike in tweets after the fifth goal (17:30 on the timeline).
Warning: Experimental stuff. Demos will only work in Chrome Canary (for now)
The CSS3 Grid Layout Module has changed quite a lot since it's incarnation when it shipped with IE10. At Responsive Day Out 2, Rachel Andrews gave an easy to follow practical talk of the current implementation (as it appears in Google Chrome Canary). The slides of this talk are embedded below:
The key thing to keep in mind when working with the Grid Layout Module is that you – when specifying stuff using
grid-column and
grid-row – target lines of the grid, not the columns of the grid. Using
grid-column: 1/3; for example will span an element from the first line to the third line of the grid, ergo it will span 2 columns.
.wrapper {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 200px 40px auto 40px 200px;
grid-template-rows: auto 1fr;
.content {
grid-column: 3 / 4;
grid-row: 2 / 3;
The CSS3 Grid Layout Module shows its real power with Grid Template Areas: Just assign an element to a
grid-area and then lay them out using
grid-template-areas on the wrapping element. Combine the latter with media queries and you can very easily implement various layouts, no matter what the order of the source code.
.mainnav {
grid-area: nav;
.subhead {
grid-area: subhead;
.quote {
grid-area: quote;
.content {
grid-area: content;
.feature-image {
grid-area: feature;
@media only screen and (min-width: 980px) {
.wrapper {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 200px 40px auto 40px 200px;
grid-template-rows: auto auto auto;
". . subhead . ."
"nav . feature . quote"
"nav . content . quote";
Really, this module gets me very excited, as it's something I'm in dire need of. Take the screenshot below of a soon to be released project for example. It has CSS Grid Layout written all over it. Had to resort to JavaScript to place all blocks properly on screen: each block is given a
data-colspan and
data-rowspan attribute. The script translates those to a resulting width/height, after which it tries to find an open spot in the grid where the block will fit into. The block is then placed at that spot using absolute positioning.
CSS Grid Layout: getting to grips with the Chrome implementation →
CSS Grid Layout →
The Cloud is an interactive lamp and speaker system, designed to mimic a thundercloud in both appearance and entertainment. Using motion sensors the cloud detects a user's presence and creates a unique lightning and thunder show dictated by their movement. The system features a powerful speaker system from which the user can stream music via any Bluetooth compatible device. Using color-changing lights the cloud is able to adapt to the desired lighting color and brightness. The cloud also has alternative modes such as a nightlight and music reactive mode.
Arduino powered.
Gov.uk won the Design Museum Design award of 2013. It's certainly not the prettiest website. Some people even call it boring.com.
So why was it awarded? Because it disrupted the way government communicates with it's citizens. Because it's user centred, user focused. Because it has one of the best copy's ever written. Because it's extremely usable. Because it solves million of problems. Because it saves millions of pounds. Because it reduces clutter. Because it changes the way governments talk to people. Because it completely disrupted the industry and set a benchmark for all to come.
That's experience design.
That's good design.
That's design.
So please, the next time we talk about design, let's go beyond visual design.
Related gov.uk posts:
Emmet Re:View is a small Google Chrome extension that finds responsive design breakpoints on your page and creates view for each breakpoint.
Stylus is great, but… where's my Compass/Bourbon?
Kouto Swiss offers an answer to that as it'll make lots of handy functions and mixins available to you. Take this Kouto Swiss provided
font-face function for example:
font-face( "Roboto", "./fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont", normal )
Which will render into this:
@font-face {
font-family: "Roboto";
font-weight: normal;
src: url("./fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.eot");
src: url("./fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.eot?#iefix") format("embedded-opentype"), url("./fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.woff") format("woff"), url("./fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.ttf") format("truetype"), url("./fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.svg#Roboto") format("svg");
Looking back at my own code I wonder why I haven't bundled my often used Stylus functions and mixins into one bundle before.
Creating a styleguide is not a new practice in the industry. During our recent relaunch of FontShop we decided to use one, too. Read on to see how it helped us, how we did it and what we could have done better.
Whilst I like the grouping of components based on the site of them, I do find there's on big thing missing from the generated styleguide: the HTML of the example shown. If you look at Mailchimp's Pattern Library for example you'll get to see the HTML code next to the result. By the looks of it, that should be perfectly possible with the generator used (KSS) to generate the styleguide.
Now this is how you promote your single: using a neat WebGL/AudioContext experiment.
One of the key differences between our new beta site and the current Guardian site is the way we approach content curation and presentation.
From the outset we knew we wanted to create a modular system. However we were wrestling with how we could maintain a consistent hierarchy of stories across desktop, tablet and mobile whilst still allowing a rhythm and pace as you move through the site, something we felt was lacking in other responsive sites. Initially just a rough sketch on a whiteboard our definition of a container became the following:
- A container is a full width horizontal element which contains a collection of content.
- Pages hold a series of containers which are stacked on top of each other, the most important at the top and the least important at the bottom.
- Containers are self sufficient -and as a result can easily appear in multiple locations in a variety of combinations.
- As the screen size gets smaller or larger, the content inside adjusts to the width of the screen.
I was fortunate to see Oliver Reichenstein (from iA) talk about this at the recent Responsive Day Out 2.
The container model and blended content – a new approach to how we present content on the Guardian →
The Guardian Beta →
Meetings are where ideas go to die.
— Nic Haralambous
Such a good quote (extracted from the previous post here on bram.us) that I'm giving it a separate place here, to honour it properly.
I recently turned 30. For some very odd reason I've not warmed to the idea of it just yet. However as I began to evaluate my 20s I realised how many mistakes I've made and things I've learned in a decade of life.
Wish I'd read this 10 years ago.
It seemed as if the entire world stopped to watch the World Cup match against Belgium.
Twitter released a map shortly after the game that pretty much backs up that notion, with geotagged tweets mentioning key World Cup terms surging and falling as they were sent during the match. As the match approached extra time with both teams scoreless and one on the verge of elimination, all hell broke loose.
Lovely visualisation!
(via Mashable)
Fun Google Maps based quiz. Just drop the pin at a location to answer. Keep playing until you run out of kilometers.
A configurable captcha solution, focusing on accessibility & simplicity whilst maintaining security.
Not too sure on the accessibility part though, as the presented options to choose from are not accessible by keyboard (issue here).
Web Component wrapper to the Web Speech API, that allows you to do voice recognition (speech to text) and speech synthesis (text to speech) using Polymer.
Really nifty! Thanks to Polymer you'll be provided with two extra elements you can use:
<voice-player> for text to speech and
<voice-recognition> for speech to text
<-- text to speech -->
<voice-player autoplay text="Welcome to the jungle! hahaha just kidding!"></voice-player>
<-- speech to text -->
<form id="recognition-form" class="pure-form">
<textarea id="recognition-input" readonly=""></textarea>
<button id="recognition-submit" class="pure-button pure-button-primary">Start!</button>
<voice-recognition id="recognition-element"></voice-recognition>
var form = document.querySelector('#recognition-form'),
input = document.querySelector('#recognition-input'),
element = document.querySelector('#recognition-element');
form.addEventListener('submit', function(e) {
element.addEventListener('result', function(e) {
input.textContent = e.detail.result;
WebIDE helps you create, edit, and test a new Web application right from your browser. It lets you install and test apps on Firefox OS devices and simulators and integrates the Firefox Developer Tools for seamless debugging and inspection across those devices. This is a first step towards debugging across various platforms and devices over WiFi using open remote debugging APIs.
Here's a video of WebIDE in action:
AirDog is a small, agile, foldable quadcopter, especially designed for filmmakers and action sports enthusiasts who use GoPro cameras.
Like its canine namesake, AirDog automatically follows you wherever you go, whatever you do. It's not bothered by pelting rain, freezing temps, massive waves, or freaking insane places. AirDog doesn't say "no." It just follows, flying right along.
An interface component to give your site/app Medium.com style commenting.
How does Super Mario Bros teach you to play purely through level design? Game Designer Dan "OtherDan" Emmons breaks down the mechanics and offers a lesson in game design techniques.
Whatever you do: you'll get the mushroom.
From now on, rebeccapurple means #663399.
A great tribute to a great man and his daughter who was passed away at the age of just six. Every time Eric blogged about Rebecca's condition and how it changed over time it tore me into pieces. This is the right thing to do, just as
#663399Becca was.
A hue angle of 270 degrees, a saturation of 50% and a lightness of 40% →
A short film about large scale Forging of special steels at Firth Rixson in Sheffield. Part of the Steel Stories project in collaboration with Arts and Humanities, The University of Sheffield .
The sound design and audio mixdown of this video is just perfect. Love the atmosphere created.
(That's a presentation embedded above. Use your left/right arrow keys to navigate through it. You might need to click it first in order to focus it.)
Whilst we, JavaScript developers, are nowadays spoiled with tools, frameworks, build systems, etc. we might tend to forget some of the core things contained in the JavaScript language.
Think of some core language things such as variables, variable types, functions, closures, IIFEs, etc. — these are all things that one should know as they can explain some of the — at first — odd looking behavior JavaScript has.
Yesterday, at a #fronteersbe meetup, I gave a talk just about that. The presentation is embedded above.
<div style="display: grid;">
<div style="grid-row: 1; grid-column: 2;">item 1</div>
<div style="grid-column: span 2;">item 2</div>
<div>item 3</div>
grid-auto-flow to different values will change the way blocks are placed
From the same creator as the aforementioned – and genius! – Limbo. Expected early 2015, debuting on Xbox.
These are the slides for a presentation I gave on the 28th of May for UX Beers Antwerp. This presentation is an explanation of HTML prototyping, a common workflow we use at Wolf's Little Store to design software in a better way.
On the 28th of May I did a small talk about HTML prototyping at the monthly UX Beers event. You can find the slides in an HTML version here.
There's going to be a new series of workshops in the Fall including a workshop about HTML prototyping — next to the classic responsive design workshop.
{transform: 'translate(' + snowLeft + 'px, -100%)'},
{transform: 'translate(' + snowLeft + 'px, ' + window.innerHeight + 'px)'}
], {
duration: 1500,
iterations: 10,
delay: 300
Glad to see this one land
Web Animations –
element.animate() is now in Chrome 36 →
module.controller('PictureCtrl', function($scope, $cordovaCamera) {
$scope.takePicture = function() {
// See all the possible Camera options from the Camera docs [1]:
/// https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-camera/blob/master/doc/index.md#cameraoptions
}).then(function(imageData) {
// Success! Image data is here
}, function(err) {
// An error occured. Show a message to the user
ngCordova is a set of AngularJS extensions on top of the Cordova API to make it easier to build, test, and deploy Cordova apps with AngularJS.
Without Classy:
['$scope', '$location', '$http',
function($scope, $location, $http) {
// ...
With Classy:
name: 'AppCtrl',
inject: ['$scope', '$location', '$http'],
As designers, we may want to style something in a certain way, but sometimes end up having to go to war with HTML, CSS, and JS to get it done. And even then, the results can be weighty, hacky, and unsemantic. Shadow DOM might be able to save us from that, giving us a fresh place to use whatever HTML we need without exposing that mess to the actual DOM
Yes, that's just a default
<input type="file" />, pimped using the Shadow DOM and the
template element.
Related: All posts tagged shadow dom here on bram.us, contains some good introductory videos.
Hi God,
Thanks so much for the latest round of work. Really coming together. Few points of feedback:
1 – Really liking the whole light thing but not totally sure about the naming system. "Day" and "night" are OK but we feel like there's more we can do here. Thoughts? Definitely need to nail this down ASAP.
2 – Re: the "sky"… not really feeling the color here. Would like something that pops more. Please send additional options.
3 – Appreciate the work on the sea and ground, but …
All the clients, all the time. Be sure to read the entire post
Client feedback on the creation of earth →
Related: Client Feedback
The PlayCanvas Engine is a JavaScript library engineered specifically for building video games. It implements all of the major components that you need to write high quality games:
- Graphics: model loading, per-pixel lighting, shadow mapping, post effects
- Physics: rigid body simulation, ray casting, joints, trigger volumes, vehicles
- Animation: keyframing, skeletal blending, skinning
- Audio engine: 2D and 3D audio sources
- Input devices: mouse, keyboard, touch and gamepad support
- Entity-component system: high level game object management
Comes with an in-browser editor to build your games and can also host your projects:
360 degrees roller coaster ride. Nauseating.
There are lots of clever one-liners for generating random colors:
Unfortunately, this code naturally produces lots of greys and browns and murky greens.
randomColor generates attractive colors by default. More specifically, randomColor produces bright colors with a reasonably high saturation. This makes randomColor particularly useful for data visualizations and generative art.
The result pictured above is generated using this code:
randomColor({hue: 'red', count: 18});
You might think that math doesn't have a lot to do with writing stylesheets, but you can actually do some amazing things with a little math in CSS. Math (particularly trigonometry) can help you model the real world. You'll need it if you want to do something complicated with 3D transforms. And it can be a lot of fun if you just want to impress your friends.
The author, Ana Tudor, also talked about this at CSS Day 2014. Unfortunately I could not attend, due to being in Ireland at the moment.
ScanLAB Projects are the UK's leading provider of large scale 3D scanning, capturing precise, beautiful digital replicas of buildings, landscapes, objects and events.
We provide quality 3D Scanning Services, 3D Publishing and Pointcloud Visualisation.
Damn impressive! Be sure to check out some of the works shown on their website.
<script src="path/to/vlex.js"></script>
<div id="vlexContainer" style="width:100%; height:100%;">
<svg id="vlex" width="100%" height="100%" onload="VLEX(vlex)"> <!-- call VLEX inline -->
<circle r="100" vlex="cx:{$cX};cy:{$cY}"></circle> <!-- use vlex attribute -->
SVG is deemed to be the holy grail for graphics in resposive web design! But are they really?!
In situations – where you want layout inside a SVG – it is quite frustrating. Of course, there is this
viewboxthing, that can help sometimes, but most of the time drives you crazy.
VLEX is the attempt to overcome this SVG shortcomings. It is a damn small script (5 KB with a lot of comments; 750 bytes (!) minified and gzipped) that allows, once added to the SVG, a declarative layout.
Just call the main
VLEX function onload, and it will adjust all properties defined in the
vlex attributes of your SVG components. In the example above the
cx and
cy values of the
circle are kept up-to-date whenever one resizes the window (viz: it is always centered).
VLEX – Vector Layout Expressions →
(via @joggink)
perfect-scrollbar is very tiny but perfect jQuery scrollbar plugin.
Looks great: highly configurable, respects the mouse, respects the keyboard, etc.
perfect-scrollbar demo →
perfect-scrollbar source (github) →
Layouts where content hugs the boundaries of illustrations are common in print and rare on the web. One of the reasons non-rectangular contour-hugging layouts are uncommon on the web is that they are difficult to produce.
They are not difficult to produce anymore.
And once again I have a flashback to (the now offline) The Box Office, a project I made a long long time ago (2005) to mimic some of the stuff one can do with CSS Shapes
Swift Cheat Sheet and Quick Reference →
Sidenote: I cannot stop laughing at this sentence that made it onto the Apple site introducing Swift.
Swift is the result of the latest research on programming languages.
Namespaces and closures; ORLY?
This is a short film about how my mom became the owner of a motorcycle. More deeply it is about how people use objects to connect with times, ideas, and people.
The one word that – to me – stood out was not "giving" but "Authenticity".
Friendlier HTML form controls with a little CSS magic. Designed for IE9+, as well as the latest Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.


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As support to President Aquino's call for transparency, the Department of Agriculture launched its open data portal called DAAN (Department of Agriculture Accountability Network) website which aims to promote public awareness of its community-focused projects and activities nationwide.
The portal provides a library of the agency's on-going and completed projects nationwide. It also details their fund allocations and cumulative disbursements, completion period, percentage of accomplishment and other relevant data, including regularly updated photos, which were provided by the attached agencies, corporations and regional field units of the Department of Agriculture.
In addition, as part of its efforts to enhance the portal, the agency has also started mapping the projects through GPS.
Mapped projects include farm to market roads, irrigation, post-harvest facilities, production support facilities, market related infrastructure, post-harvest equipment and machines as well as other major projects nationwide.
Furthermore, users are encouraged to post their comments on the projects so as to help the agency improve its project management activities.
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A coffee mug is better used as a meat mallet? Cups as rolling pins? Ordinary kitchen items are more useful than you think...
Susannah Locketti of Next Food Network Star goes green and saves money by transforming these kitchen items into useful gadgets.
Recycle and reuse caps to make inexpensive measuring spoons. The cap of a water bottle is about 1 tablespoon. The cap from vanilla extract is a great built-in teaspoon measure. If you're one for constantly washing dishes, keep a little baggie of caps on hand in case your measuring spoons are dirty.
Mugs hold your morning coffee, but they are also a fun serving dish for pudding with whipped cream, or an ice cream sundae for the kids. Mugs work well for crushing cookies or crackers in Ziploc baggies. Get a workout and save electricity when making graham cracker crusts, or cracker toppings for seafood. Or, use a mug to pound chicken out when you can't find a meat mallet.
|Tall Cups
The taller the better! Tall, sturdy plastic cups are a sweet stand-in for a rolling pin. Be sure the cup is uniform all the way around for even rolling. Dust it with flour as you would a standard rolling pin. You can also invert a cup or glass and turn it into a cookie or biscuit cutter instantly.
|Empty Jars
When spices run out, strip the jar of its label and wash it. Empty jars are perfect for storing small items (like frosting tips). They're also great for storing custom blends of dried herbs from your garden or homemade bread crumbs. Use larger jars to store leftovers, or as waterproof food containers when packing the cooler for the beach.
Spray Bottles
Fill a clean spray bottle with your favorite vinegar or oil. These bottles are a great way to lightly dress a salad or mist a hot pan with oil. Spray bottles are also convenient when your kids have bed head. While they're eating their breakfast, squirt their hair with water and comb. You can also boil water with fresh lavender sprigs and make homemade scented ironing water. The spray bottles mist laundry perfectly.


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|Look up global in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Global means of or referring to a globe and may also refer to:
- Global (Paul van Dyk album), 2003
- Global (Bunji Garlin album), 2007
- Global' (Humanoid album), 1989
- Global Underground, music label
- Bruno J. Global, human captain of the SDF-1 Macross in the anime series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
Companies and brands[edit]
- Global (cutlery), a Japanese brand
- Global Aviation Holdings
- Global Benchmarking Network (GBN)
- Global Crossing, telecommunications company based in Bermuda
- Global Radio, British commercial radio company
- Global Television Network, in Canada
- Global BC, on-air brand of CHAN-TV, a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Global Okanagan, on-air brand of CHBC-TV, a television station in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
- Global Toronto, a television station in Toronto
- Global Edmonton
- Global Calgary
- Global Montreal
- Global Maritimes
- NTV, a television station in Newfoundland, similar to the Global network
- Global TV (Indonesia)
- Canwest Global Communications Corp., a Canadian media conglomerate
Math and science[edit]
- Global field, in mathematics
- Global serializability, in data management
- Global symmetry, in quantum field theory
- Global variable, a variable in computer programming that is accessible in every scope
- GNU GLOBAL, a source code tagging system part of the GNU project
- Global governance, in international relations
- Global Greens, political Green party network
- Global politics, study of political and economical patterns of the world
- Global F.C., a professional Filipino association football club, established in March 2000. Currently plays in the United Football League Division I.
- Global citizenship
- Global city, an especially important city
- Global Map
- Global war, World war
- Global warming and global dimming, in environmental studies
See also[edit]
- Globe (disambiguation)
- Globalization, ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated
- Globalism
- Earth
- Cosmopolitanism, ideology that all kinds of human race belongs to a single community, based on a shared morality
- Worldwide (disambiguation)
- World (disambiguation)
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