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Pears
"Collect, test, and experiment with interface pattern pairings of CSS & HTML. Pears is an open source WordPress theme, enabling people like you to get your own pattern library up and running quickly."
wordpress  patterns  html  css 
15 days ago
Nychthemeron
"Nychthemeron is a period of 24 consecutive hours. It is sometimes used, especially in technical literature, to avoid the ambiguity inherent in the term day." from Wikipedia.
words 
20 days ago
Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic
"...clicking the like button 1 billion times will never give you an orgasm or a hug or a high five....Get on, make the most meaningful information and connections, and then get offline. Then, live purposefully towards happiness."
culture  happiness  psychology  technology 
20 days ago
Industrial Piping, Recycled Into One of a Kind Shelving
It's been years since I disassembled my iron pipe furniture. Now, for all the patient iron in the basement, my next project. [January 14 at 11:27am]
craft  project 
24 days ago
The Rise of the New Groupthink
"Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in." from NYT.
culture  ideas  creativity  education 
24 days ago
Blue Marble
"Taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP, this composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012." Original size: 8000 x 8000.
earth  photography 
24 days ago
Ellipsis
"The triple-dot punctuation mark is also called a suspension point, points of ellipsis, periods of ellipsis, or colloquially, dot-dot-dot." from Wikipedia.
typography  punctuation  writing 
24 days ago
Years
"A record player that plays slices of wood. Year ring data is translated into music, 2011." Bartholomäus Traubeck.
art  sound  music 
4 weeks ago
The Search for a More Perfect Kilogram
"Relative to the témoins and to the national standards, Le Grand K has been losing weight — or, by the definition of mass under the metric system, the rest of the universe has been getting fatter."
physics  science  standards 
5 weeks ago
Amazing Archive of High-Res Photos from NASA’s Gemini Missions
"The Project Gemini Online Digital Archive, released this weekend by NASA and Arizona State University, features high-resolution digital scans from the original Gemini flight films."
space  photography  digitization 
6 weeks ago
McGurk effect
"The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound." from Wikipedia.
audio  cognition  perception  psychology  visual 
6 weeks ago
Why Ignorance Is a Democracy's Bliss
"Nevertheless, this research helps to explain the importance of indifference in a partisan age. ...It's the people who don't know very much who make democracy possible."
psychology  research 
6 weeks ago
The Dangerous Effects of Reading
"In our personal lives we tend to optimize for one of two things: input or output. Reading or writing. Consuming or creating. The environment we live in – the prevailing culture – by default is optimized for consumption."
creativity  productivity  happiness  information  culture 
7 weeks ago
The Whole Fracking Enchilada
"I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time." from Orion.
environment  energy  climate  water  health  geology 
7 weeks ago
Nature's Spoils
"If they have a connecting thread, it’s their distrust of 'dead, anonymous, industrialized, genetically engineered, and chemicalized corporate food.'" from The New Yorker.
food  health  nature  gmo 
7 weeks ago
Anatomy Of An Idea
"The discovery process is remarkably social, and the social interactions come in amazingly diverse forms....People who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly."
books  ideas  research  methodology  internet  web 
8 weeks ago
Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong
"Chris Poole - founder of anonymous image sharing den 4chan - gave us a rousing and principled picture of what the big players get wrong about online identity."
internet  web  identity 
8 weeks ago
Mind vs. Machine
"As computers have mastered rarefied domains once thought to be uniquely human, they simultaneously have failed to master the ground-floor basics of the human experience—spatial orientation, object recognition, natural language, adaptive goal-setting—and in so doing, have shown us how impressive, computationally and otherwise, such minute-to-minute fundamentals truly are." from The Atlantic.
brain  mind  technology  human  hci 
8 weeks ago
Support Vs Optimization
"As more connected devices enter the landscape, it’s important to discuss how we as web creators are going to deal with the sheer number of devices, browsers, operating systems, and form factors. Moving forward we need to consider the difference between support and optimization."
web  mobile  browsers  futurefriendly 
8 weeks ago
Graham's number
"Indeed, the observable universe is far too small to contain an ordinary digital representation of Graham's number, assuming that each digit occupies at least one Planck volume." from Wikipedia.
math 
9 weeks ago
What I Learned About the Web in 2011
"Embrace change, complexity, and most importantly, the community." from A List Apart.
web  webdesign  webdevelopment  technology  trend 
9 weeks ago
Apps and web apps and the future
"I think instead that we’ll see a more tangled future. Native apps will use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript more. Web apps will appear more often on smart phones as launchable apps. Native apps will support linking in and out more. Web apps will move more processing to the client — they’ll be written more like native apps."
web  apps  api  mobile  linking 
9 weeks ago
Why apps are not the future
"The great thing about the web is linking. I don't care how ugly it looks and how pretty your app is, if I can't link in and out of your world, it's not even close to a replacement for the web."
web  apps  mobile  linking  hypertext 
10 weeks ago
Click consonant
"The essence of a click is a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism. However, in nasal clicks the nasalization involves a separate nasal airstream, generally pulmonic egressive but occasionally pulmonic ingressive. Similarly, voiced clicks also require a simultaneous pulmonic egressive airstream to power the voiced phonation." from Wikipedia.
language  mind 
10 weeks ago
China's Abandoned Wonderland
"In Chenzhuang Village, China, about 20 miles northwest of central Beijing, the ruins of a partially built amusement park called Wonderland sit near a highway, surrounded by houses and fields of corn."
photography  culture 
10 weeks ago
Planetary Landscapes
"In the last decade, the multimedia artist Michael Benson has staged a series of large-scale exhibitions of planetary landscape photography. He takes raw image data from deep-space missions run by NASA and the European Space Agency and digitally processes it to create large-format landscapes." from NYT.
space  photography 
11 weeks ago
The Extraordinary Syllabus of David Foster Wallace
"Wallace doesn’t accept the silent social contract between students and professors: He takes apart and analyzes and makes explicit, in a way that is almost painful, all of the tiny conventional unspoken agreements usually made between professors and their students."
education  literature  learning  thinking 
11 weeks ago
again with the post digital
"Post Digital was a suggestion that, maybe, we needed to get over that and start thinking about the next phase, the phase where it got integrated into the world. What will we do, I was asking, when we can take all this connectivity for granted? When it’s no longer special or interesting? What will we build then?"
technology  culture  future 
11 weeks ago
Move The Web Forward
"You love web standards. You want to give back to the community. Curious about where to start? We're here to help."
web  webstandards  browsers  webdevelopment  html5 
12 weeks ago
The Pummeling Pages
"They’re filled with ads and social-media sharing buttons — and more ads. And Google plus-onesies and Facebook likeys. And also more ads. Plus tweet-this-es. Plus ads. (And, under-the-hood, a whole cruise-ship-full of analytics. The page required well-more than 100 http calls.)"
reading  web  content  ux 
12 weeks ago
Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus
"'Octopuses,' writes philosopher Godfrey-Smith, 'are a separate experiment in the evolution of the mind.' And that, he feels, is what makes the study of the octopus mind so philosophically interesting." from Orion Magazine.
biology  brain  animals  mind  intelligence 
november 2011
Amblypygi
"...Amblypygids are also known as whip spiders and tailless whip scorpions..." from Wikipedia.
nature  biology 
november 2011
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
"I call this technology Pictures Under Glass. Pictures Under Glass sacrifice all the tactile richness of working with our hands, offering instead a hokey visual facade....Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It's a Novocaine drip to the wrist. It denies our hands what they do best. And yet, it's the star player in every Vision Of The Future."
design  future  interaction  ui  ux  body  hci 
november 2011
Space Ipsum
"Have you ever needed filler text, but wished you had more exciting options then the generic 'lorem ipsum' variations? If so, you are in luck! We’ve created this space themed random content generator that uses phrases from historic moments in spaceflight."
webdevelopment  fun  words  space 
november 2011
Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains
"Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how the brain creates the grace and agility of human motion."
brain  neuroscience  fitness  movement 
november 2011
Your Brain Knows a Lot More Than You Realize
"Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the processes and skills of the subconscious mind, which our conscious selves rarely consider."
brain  neuroscience 
november 2011
In conversation: Alison Gopnik
"On what’s wrong with the way we teach." Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.
education  learning  children  brain  philosophy  psychology 
november 2011
Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness
"Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your life."
culture  space  stuff  happiness 
october 2011
1197
"The first camera phone photo was taken on June 11th, 1997. In honor of that date, 1197 is a one-day conference dedicated to mobile & iPhone photography."
mobile  conference  photography 
october 2011
It’s the end of the web as we know it
"The promise of the open web looks increasingly uncertain...But all the things that matter will be controlled and owned by a very small number of Big Web companies. Your identity will be your accounts at Facebook, Google and Twitter, not the domain name you own."
web  social  technology  data  identity 
october 2011
the average font - a set on Flickr
"Every character from a to z is drawn using every single font with a low opacity."
typography  design  fonts 
september 2011
Being vegetarian a dangerous idea: Foer
''There are ideas that can literally put you in physical danger, which this one can,'' he says. ''There are ideas that are socially dangerous, which this one is. There are ideas that are dangerous because of their potential to change things in a dramatic way, which this one also is. So by most definitions, I would say that not eating animals is a dangerous idea.''
vegetarian  food  culture  ideas 
september 2011
Why the Impossible Happens More Often
"Connected, in real time, in multiple dimensions, at an increasingly global scale, in matters large and small, with our permission, we will operate at a new level, and we won't cease surprising ourselves with impossible achievements."
future  web  technology  culture 
september 2011
LukeW | Future Friendly
"Only reacting to what's happening today puts us further behind as new changes come quicker and quicker. We need to look to the future. Yet we don't know exactly what will happen, so we can't be future proof. But we can be future friendly."
webstandards  future  technology 
september 2011
ugEXPLODE Records
music  label 
september 2011
Future Friendly
"In today's incredibly exciting yet overwhelming world of connected digital devices, these are the truths we hold to be self-evident:"
manifesto  future  technology  webstandards 
september 2011
The Elusive Big Idea
"We have become information narcissists..." from NYT.
culture  ideas  history  technology  philosophy  innovation 
august 2011
Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby
a side-by-side reference sheet
php  python  perl  cheatsheet 
august 2011
20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web
"But how do our browsers and the web actually work? How has the World Wide Web evolved into what we know and love today? And what do we need to know to navigate the web safely and efficiently?"
browsers  html5  web 
august 2011
Food Sense
"Food Sense is a unique resource for thoughtful, food-loving eaters and home cooks who have a palate for plant-based eating."
food  recipe  wdi 
august 2011
The UX of Learning
"While roughly consistent with Bloom’s Taxonomy, her research yielded much greater insight into the sequential nature of learning and its implications on the digital environment." from A List Apart.
design  education  learning  usability  ux 
august 2011
#rorschmap
"Rorschmap is cartographic navel-gazing, a reframing of the map. It will not help you find anything."
map  fun 
july 2011
Content management, markup, and doing it wrong
"In short, I think that markup is too important to be left in the hands of the people who make content management systems. They all too often don’t care enough about it, and they can never know the context that you will be using it in, and so in my opinion they shouldn’t be trying to guess."
cms  markup  frontend  webdevelopment 
july 2011
Don’t use IDs in CSS selectors?
"Save IDs for fragment identifiers or JavaScript hooks."
css  bestpractices 
july 2011
Free WordPress Themes: 2011 Edition
from Smashing Magazine.
wordpress  theme 
july 2011
CSS1K
A demonstration of what can be accomplished with only 1 K (Kibibyte) of CSS.
css  design 
july 2011
loads.in
loads.in gives you the possibility to see how fast your (or any) website loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide.
web  performance 
july 2011
The Connected States of America
"The Connected States of America illustrates the emerging communities based on the social interactions through the use of anonymized mobile phone data."
map  interactive  data  visualization 
july 2011
Vehicular cycling
"Vehicular cycling (also known as integrated cycling, integrated traffic cycling, cooperative cycling, and bicycle driving) is the practice of riding bicycles on roads in a manner that is visible, predictable, and in accordance with the principles for driving in traffic." from Wikipedia.
bike  cycling 
july 2011
Google Swiffy
Swiffy converts Flash SWF files to HTML5, allowing you to reuse Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads).
html5  flash 
june 2011
Sprite Cow
Sprite Cow helps you get the background-position, width and height of sprites within a spritesheet as a nice bit of copyable css.
css  sprite  images  webtools 
june 2011
HTML Entity Character Lookup
entity  character  html  webtools 
june 2011
The Brain on Trial
"Neuroscience is beginning to touch on questions that were once only in the domain of philosophers and psychologists, questions about how people make decisions and the degree to which those decisions are truly “free.” These are not idle questions. Ultimately, they will shape the future of legal theory and create a more biologically informed jurisprudence."
brain  neuroscience  psychology 
june 2011
head.js
The only script in your <head>
html5  js 
june 2011
Dear Photograph
take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.
art  photography 
june 2011
Barn (unit)
The "inverse femtobarn" is a measurement of particle collision events per femtobarn. from Wikipedia.
science 
june 2011
Media Queries
a collection of responsive web designs
mediaqueries  design  css3 
june 2011
Google Web Fonts
"Google Web Fonts lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Web Fonts API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers."
fonts  webdesign  redesign 
june 2011
How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code
"It's tempting to generalize: If programming is best learned in this playful, bottom-up way, why not everything else?"
programming  learning  education 
june 2011
Naomi Klein on how corporate branding has taken over America
"Ten years after the publication of No Logo, Naomi Klein switches her attention from the mall to Barack Obama and discovers that corporate culture has taken over the US government."
culture  politics  marketing  branding 
june 2011
The Web and the Wisdom of Crowds
"I've got no larger point here, other than that this yet another reminder (at least for me) that we should be suspicious of large points, especially when it comes to the web. Like everything else, the internet remains a flurry of contradictions. It makes us stupider and smarter."
internet  psychology  technology  social 
may 2011
When We're Cowed by the Crowd
"And yet, while the Web has enabled new forms of collective action, it has also enabled new kinds of collective stupidity. Groupthink is now more widespread, as we cope with the excess of available information by outsourcing our beliefs to celebrities, pundits and Facebook friends. Instead of thinking for ourselves, we simply cite what's already been cited."
internet  psychology  technology  social 
may 2011
It's About The Hashbangs
"For the web apps that have made the jump already it’s too late but I urge you to think really hard about making the jump to hashbang URLs when creating new content or considering a switch from traditional URLs. There is a path forward in the not too distant future. pushState is coming to browsers at quite a rate."
js  url  web  hashbang  http 
may 2011
Long Live the Redesign
"The redesign disease is in full effect on the Web. It teaches us that it's quick and painless, and we can always redesign our problems away. And the cycle of meaningless design continues. It's time to stop this madness. Realign it, or refine it. Focus and attack the high priority issues that will cause little disruption and improve on the experience. Set up ways to measure and diagnose specific problems."
ux  redesign  usability 
may 2011
The Goldilocks Approach to Responsive Web Design
"However, if you base your entire design on this base font size (using ems), then as it increases or decreases, so will your design. Using ems allows your designs to be resolution independent."
webdesign  layout  mobile  ui  redesign 
may 2011
A design for strife
"Budd has a different name for it, 'loss aversion', but his explanation is very similar: 'People expect the pain of losing something to be greater than the value gained from its replacement,' he says. Consequently, new sites have to be significantly better than the old ones to overcome that initial subconscious recoil."
redesign  webdesign 
may 2011
Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert
"Wikipedia is the foreshock of an epistemological earthquake to rival the one set rumbling by Johannes Gutenberg ca. 1439....Knowledge is growing more broadly and immediately participatory and collaborative by the moment."
wikipedia  collaboration  knowledge  culture  authority 
may 2011
The 'Science' of Good Design: A Dangerous Idea
"'I confess that I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretence of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.'"
design  business  research  science 
may 2011
Sitting is Killing You
"As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, there is one thing nearly all modern Americans have in common: we sit all the time. Though our great shift towards computer-based work has done great things for productivity, it has, unfortunately, done terrible things for our health."
health  fitness  society  activity 
may 2011
FitText
"FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Use this plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element."
jquery  fonts  plugin 
may 2011
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