make that LOTS of rules (some contradictory!) about writing by writers.

mostly old mining towns and places ruined by war, but also 2 italian towns abandoned after earthquakes, and a city in the chernobyl zone. (C sez it was in one of his video games!)

Pretty, and for some reason makes me think of one of the characters in my nanowrimo project.

pretty. I'm starting to get that antsy feeling abt redesigning. :)

neat!

been getting a yen to redesign my site, maybe something more photorealistic. not that I have time, but here's the inspiration.

'tis the season for graduation speeches. I like this one as well. "For an adult there really only two things that matter, that deserve your essential focus: those are work and love. I’m an engineer, a computer programmer even, so I can’t possibly stand here and talk for ten minutes about love; perhaps I’d best stay mostly with the world of work."

"I’ve since drawn a larger lesson: throughout life you will encounter people in positions of authority over you whom you believe to be lunatics."

museum/gov't sites (I swear I remember a few crazy gov't pic sites in addition to these, like the dept of ag or something.)

"Now, a lot of modern websites have dropped the sitemap page, instead they place the sitemap in the footer area. I’m going to review 20 websites (from big corporation to small portfolio sites) who organized their footer cleverly to enhance usability." What was that ALA article about big footers?

slides & stuff. it was a good presentation

it's kinda simplistic, but I found it very helpful.

EPIC FAIL FTW? :P

some very pretty examples here.

found while looking for something else. I don't know what to do with it, but I desperately want to do SOMETHING. :)

too tired right now for any extra commentary.

fun with shiny!

beautiful!

I want to be a writer again.

"49 simple, clean, sometimes even minimalistic designs"

"With a design like this, I would almost venture to say that content doesn’t matter" -- seems like that's the problem, really, with that sort of design.

"A poster made for an imaginary aviation show in Iceland" - beautiful vintagesque goodness.

scroll down to Abduzeedo -- that's a *Drupal* site?!

expressed as color palettes. I particularly like Machu Picchu & Cichen Itza.

"Other people went rafting down the Ganges but I was here in Brooklyn reading about Unicode." Something comforting about that, honestly.

some things about this design that are inspirational for a current project.

omg so many logos. hours of fun...and I'm working on something where the inspiration will come in handy!

that's actually fscking INSPIRING, which sort of surprised me.

all kinds of wacky js effects.

a gallery of different styles popular now.

ooooh, shiny! (I'm using one of the designer's Stock.Xchng photos for a work project.)

very cool collection of screenshots!

it reminds me a lot of techniques around freewriting, which I have insane amounts of experience with. :)

via Dylan.

I'm really impressed by the design.

everything shiny, rounded, and shadowed

I like that look. keeping for inspirational purposes