Tomorrow, In a Year [The Knife]
In collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock.
electronic  music  knife 
november 2010
VimRoom
Distraction-free Vim. Hahaha.
vim  writing  software  command  line  plugin 
october 2010
The Art of Fiction No. 206: Michel Houellebecq [Paris Review]
Michel Houellebecq, The Art of Fiction No. 206 interviewed by Susannah Hunnewell.
author  writer  houellebecq  fiction  interviews  from instapaper
october 2010
Gradual engagement boosts Twitter sign-ups by 29% [LukeW]
Luke Wroblewski talks through the changes in the Twitter sign-up process and how it improved their engagement measures.
forms  twitter  usability  ux  design 
october 2010
Are the financial markets turning on climate? [Paul Gilding]
According to @paulgilding more money was invested in renewables in 2008 and 2009 than in fossil fuels.
climate  change  fossil  fuels  renewable  energy  capacity  tipping  point  global  warming  from instapaper
october 2010
Annette Stewart: biography of Barbara Hanrahan [The Book Show]
Annette Stewart talking to Peter Mares: Hanrahan writes of “people possessing other people.”
author  writing  books  novels  fiction  interview  psychology 
october 2010
Tip: Use Universal Feed Parser to tame RSS [IBM DeveloperWorks]
Uche Ogbuji on how to configure the Universal Feed Parser.
resources  tips  feeds  rss  atom  server  howto  python  parser 
october 2010
Displaying and optimizing ALT text in popular email clients [Campaign Monitor]
Ros Hodgekiss on how major desktop and web based e-mail clients handle alt text for images.
email  clients  accessibility  usability  marketing  images  reference 
october 2010
Organic egg scorecard [The Cornucopia Institute]
Listing of rated and verified farms that raise hens using healthy and humane methods.
eggs  food  sustainability  farms  production  ratings  reviews 
october 2010
What ‘Like’ buttons mean for web traffic [Mashable]
Jolie O’Dell on the effect of adding the Facebook Like button to your site.
facebook  social  metrics  analytics  engagement  marketing  media 
october 2010
Shake the blues by overriding Yahoo! Mail’s default link color [Campaign Monitor]
Ros Hodgekiss on how to overcome the blue link problem with HTML email on Yahoo! Mail.
html  email  yahoo  mail  howto  design  css 
september 2010
5 Facebook privacy tips you need to know now [AllFacebook]
Nick O’Neill’s overview from before the simplified settings still has a lot of good information especially on the fine-grained Custom settings.
privacy  facebook  information  security  howto 
september 2010
The Facebook places privacy settings you need to know [AllFacebook]
Nick O’Neill with suggested settings for the new Places feature. Most important thing here is probably to prevent other people from being able to check you in to places.
facebook  places  privacy  howto  reference  information  security 
september 2010
A new way to embed YouTube videos [YouTube API Blog]
New Flash/HTML5 embedding method for YouTube vids.
web  youtube  html5  video  mobile 
september 2010
Fluid - an open-source software community
From the site: Fluid builds user interfaces, designs commonly used interactions, teaches others how to build good user-centred designs, and works with other software projects to integrate our solutions into their applications. Fluid is a project of the Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University, funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
accessibility  design  ui  usability  ux  interface 
september 2010
Über-zombie cookies give us the fear [The Register]
John Leyden on the use of redundant cookie storage methods that make deleting cookies very difficult.
cookies  security  privacy  browsers 
september 2010
Web service models in higher education
List of references to higher ed web policies, guides, service pages and accessibility statements.
higher  education  accessibility  policy  standards  web  service 
september 2010
Developer Release [Diaspora blog]
Diaspora is now available as a developer release.
webapps  startups  social  media  networks 
september 2010
Premailer: pre-flight for HTML email
By following the principles of JFGI, I present the holy grail of HTML email authoring.
html  email  authoring  css  inline  gmail  clients  utilities  from twitter
september 2010
Cordless Dog: Stay
Utility for keeping application windows in place.
mac  osx  software  windows  utility  independent 
september 2010
Pixel patterns for photoshop [Naomi Atkinson Products]
For use as background textures in web page design. Via Dan Cederholm.
design  pattern  patterns  photoshop  textures  resources 
august 2010
Call for Papers: Settler Colonialism [arena]
New issue of Arena Journal will focus on settler colonialism.
colonialism  journal  arena  criticism  culture  indigenous 
august 2010
Mac OS X Automation: Services
Quick overview of Services in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
mac  osx  automation  scripting  howto  video 
august 2010
Antennae galaxy photos [Chandra X-Ray Observatory]
Composite image from NASA’s Great Observatories shows Antennae galaxies collision.
space  stars  galaxies  photographs  nasa  telescope  observatory 
august 2010
All my bikes: 5, GT Interceptor [chrispiascik.com]
Check out the “All my bikes” series by , especially the shin murderer detail…
illustration  bikes  artist  from twitter
august 2010
Harmony Website Management
Hosted content management system build on rails.
cms  design  development  tools  rails  ruby  hosting 
august 2010
Horizontal and vertical centering using CSS [Noobcube]
Details various methods and browser differences.
css  design  layout  tips  howto 
july 2010
Padlicious
Information on automatically building iPad web apps using a Mac.
development  ipad  osx  automation  content  mobile 
july 2010
Local Harvest
Search tool for local farms and farmers markets.
food  local  farms  search  tool 
july 2010
Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 [W3C]
Emotion Markup Language 1.0, second draft includes some interesting discussion, for a W3C spec.
markup  language  eml  emotion  representation  specifications  standards  theweb  from twitter
july 2010
CSS3 Generator
Works for Border Radius, Box Shadow, Text Shadow, RGBA, @Font Face, Multiple Columns, Box Resize, Box Sizing, Outline, Selectors and Gradients.
css  css3  tool  generator 
july 2010
Net Index by Ookla
Ranks various locations (from cities to countries), and service providers, on Internet bandwidth.
bandwidth  broadband  data  international  internet  speed  performance 
july 2010
Autoresponders are here! [Campaign Monitor]
Campaign Monitor’s post introducing their new autoresponder feature gives a good overview of the functionality, pitfalls, benefits and strategies.
bulk  email  marketing  communication  subscrition 
july 2010
Unicorn [W3C]
Unicorn - “W3C’s Unified Validator”
theweb  markup  language  validation  html  css  standards  utilities  tools  from twitter
july 2010
EWG’s 2010 Sunscreen Guide
Locate a sunscreen that won’t poison you.
environment  health  sunscreen  ingredients  toxins 
july 2010
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