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Scrubbed
"Hypothesis: A cleanse will rid your body of toxins and boost your mood and energy."
health  food  nutrition 
may 2011
Building a Thinking Room
"Today, it turns out, the real cutting edge of architecture has to do with the psychology of buildings, not just their appearance."
architecture  psychology 
may 2011
Powerful New CSS Techniques and Tools
css3 
april 2011
Unusual software bugs
"There are several kinds, mostly named after scientists who discovered counterintuitive things." from Wikipedia.
programming  software 
april 2011
pyDropboxPath
dropbox 
april 2011
The Possibilian
David Eagleman and Mysteries of the Brain. "Time is a dimension like any other, fixed and defined down to its tiniest increments: millennia to microseconds, aeons to quartz oscillations. Yet the data rarely matches our reality." from The New Yorker.
brain  psychology  mind  neuroscience 
april 2011
FFFFALLBACK
"The bookmarklet will scan the CSS of the page in order to identify existing web fonts. Then, using magical unicorns and javascript rainbows, FFFFALLBACK clones the page and provides a tool where you can test and analyze different fallback font choices."
typography  design  fonts 
april 2011
Orbital Content
"...pointing us toward a future in which content is no longer entrenched in websites, but floats in orbit around users. This transformation of our relationship with content will force us to rethink existing reputation, distribution, and monetization models—and all for the better." from A List Apart.
web  content  publishing  strategy  mobile 
april 2011
Action for Happiness
"Action for Happiness is a movement of people committed to building a happier society. We want to see a fundamentally different way of life where people care less about what they can get for themselves and more about the happiness of others."
happiness  community  society  health  psychology 
april 2011
xgfx | vegan. gluten free.
vegan  food 
april 2011
Why We Need Storytellers at the Heart of Product Development
"The answer is simple: the process of identifying a product opportunity and value statement is not easy and the skillset required is still coming of age."
design  marketing  storytelling  ux 
april 2011
Is Sitting a Lethal Activity?
"Sitting, it would seem, is an independent pathology. Being sedentary for nine hours a day at the office is bad for your health whether you go home and watch television afterward or hit the gym." from NYT.
health  exercise  activity 
april 2011
Is Sugar Toxic?
"But we are also talking about things we can’t see — fatty liver, insulin resistance and all that follows. Officially I’m not supposed to worry because the evidence isn’t conclusive, but I do." from NYT.
food  health  nutrition  diet 
april 2011
Beyond the mobile web
"...think of it as an ecosystem of touchpoints, utilities, and conversations..."
mobile  content  webdevelopment  ux 
april 2011
320 and up
‘320 and Up’ is a device agnostic, one web boilerplate.
html5  mobile  webdevelopment  css3 
april 2011
Achieving Hunter-Gatherer Fitness in the 21st Century
"Suggestions for exercise mode, duration, intensity, and frequency are outlined with a focus on realigning our daily physical activities with the archetype that is encoded within our genome."
fitness  health  culture 
april 2011
Sweet Sounds of Science
"The radical, syndicated program 'Radiolab' creates striking sound effects to communicate big ideas. List to excerpts in this sonic gallery."
sound  audio  science 
april 2011
Experience Is What We Make It
"What these services do is facilitate the uniquely personal hacking, patching, and tying together of experiences that users are constructing on their own."
mobile  ux 
april 2011
The Open Graph Protocol
"The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph."
html  metadata  semanticweb 
april 2011
99% Invisible
"A tiny radio show that explores the 99% invisible activity that shapes the design of our world."
architecture  audio  design 
april 2011
How Necessary Is Stretching?
"In fact, the latest science suggests that extremely loose muscles and tendons are generally unnecessary, may be undesirable and are, for the most part, unachievable, anyway." from NYT.
exercise  health  running  fitness 
april 2011
Umwelt
"According to Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas A. Sebeok, umwelt is the 'biological foundations that lie at the very epicenter of the study of both communication and signification in the human [and non-human] animal.'" from Wikipedia.
cognition  evolution  environment  semiotics 
march 2011
What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?
From the World Question Center 2011.
ideas  science 
march 2011
Wall of Sound
"The iPod has changed the way we listen to music. And the way we respond to it." The following essay is excerpted from the latest issue of n+1 magazine. From Slate.
music  sound  culture 
march 2011
The Interpreter
"Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?" from The New Yorker.
language  linguistics 
march 2011
An Elixir of Reminding
"This is what is becoming in the world: the acceptance, only, of lived experience. I did not hear it if it did not scrobble, I did not see it if it’s not on Flickr, I did not say it if it is unpublished. Without Foursquare, I am not even there."
culture  theory  network  internet  mind 
march 2011
Food: Six Things to Feel Good About
"...but there are bright spots on our food landscape..." from NYT.
food  farming  environment 
march 2011
No Face, but Plants Like Life Too
"Yet a nakedly logical way to judge the value of one kind of organism over another — the rightness of a plant's death versus an animal's — seems, to me, out of reach." from NYT.
food  diet  morality 
march 2011
1000 journals
"One thousand journals are traveling from hand to hand throughout the world. Those who find them will add their stories and drawings, and then pass the journal along in an ongoing collaborative art form."
art  community  design 
march 2011
Why Preschool Shouldn't Be Like School
"While learning from a teacher may help children get to a specific answer more quickly, it also makes them less likely to discover new information about a problem and to create a new and unexpected solution."
education  play  children  psychology 
march 2011
The Virtues Of Play
"...unstructured play turns out to be one of the most important aspects of Pre-K education."
education  play  children  psychology 
march 2011
Resistentialism
Resistentialism is a jocular theory to describe "seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects." from Wikipedia.
psychology  culture  words 
march 2011
Bookworm ePub reader
A free platform for reading ePub books online.
ebooks  opensource  api 
march 2011
Hunter-gatherer diets—a different perspective
diet  evolution 
march 2011
Guide to Collaborative Consumption
"A new way of living, in which access is valued over ownership, experience is valued over material possessions, and 'mine' becomes 'ours' so everyone's needs are met without waste."
culture  society  community  lifehack 
march 2011
Context As A Content Strategy
Creating More Meaningful Web Experiences Through Contextual Filtering
content  strategy  web  resources 
march 2011
Kern.js
Make web kerning suck less.
js  typography 
march 2011
Changing Strings on your Upright Bass
bass 
march 2011
Why Are Easy Decisions So Hard?
"Their hypothesis is that my wasted deliberation...is a metacognitive mistake....I confuse the array of options and excess of information with importance."
cognition  brain  psychology 
march 2011
Salted Hash and Other Tasty Dishes
"You may think your web app’s profile is too low to worry about hackers, but attacks are frequently automated, not targeted, and a compromise of the weakest password in your system can often give access to the rest."
security  webdevelopment 
march 2011
The Mobile context
"Mind reading is no way to base fundamental content decisions."
mobile  design 
march 2011
Mobile First
"More often than not, the mobile experience for a Web application or site is designed and built after the PC version is complete. Here's three reasons why Web applications should be designed for mobile first instead."
mobile  usability  development  redesign 
march 2011
Interlink Web Design Conference
Interlink is a 3-day international web conference that brings designers, developers and strategists together to inspire each other.
web  conference 
february 2011
WordPress can do that?
wordpress  cms  redesign 
february 2011
humans.txt
We Are People, Not Machines.
web  social  human 
february 2011
Initializr
Initializr is an HTML5 templates generator to help you getting started with an HTML5 project.
html5  framework 
february 2011
Isotope
"An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts."
jquery  plugin  layout 
february 2011
STEM Footwear
barefoot  running 
february 2011
Rugged Maniac 5K - Greensboro, NC
race  running  fitness 
february 2011
ifttt
"ifttt puts the internet to work for you by creating tasks that fit this simple structure: if this then that."
webtools  api  productivity 
february 2011
audiograft
Oxford's festival of sound art and contemporary music
music  sound  art 
february 2011
How the Internet Gets Inside Us
"Once it is not everything, it can be merely something."
culture  information  internet  media 
february 2011
The Moral Crusade Against Foodies
"Gluttony dressed up as foodie-ism is still gluttony." from The Atlantic.
food  culture  agriculture  vegetarian 
february 2011
URL Design
"URLs are universal....They are the one universal syntax of the web. Don’t take that for granted."
url  design  usability 
february 2011
The Turtlenecked Hairshirt
"Fetid and Fragrant Futures for the Humanities"
digital  humanities 
february 2011
Hash, Bang, Wallop.
"We’re all building tools around information and real time communication, and it matters that it works as often as possible."
javascript  ajax  url  webdevelopment  bestpractices  hash 
february 2011
Ezz-thetics
"Reynell includes both improvised and composed music in this grouping and suggests in a note that 'the dividing line...has become progressively fuzzier.'"
music  sound  reviews 
february 2011
Breaking the Web with hash-bangs
"Such brittleness for no real reason or a benefit that outweighs the downside."
ajax  url  bestpractices  javascript  webdevelopment 
february 2011
Eyeo Festival
"eyeo brings together the most creative coders, designers and artists working today, and shaping tomorrow - expect an amazing three days of talks, labs, demos & events fueled by the people and tools that are transforming digital culture."
design  visualization  code  conference 
february 2011
30-Day Facebook Fast
communication 
february 2011
Constant Setting
Simply because the sun is always setting
photography  science 
february 2011
A Food Manifesto for the Future
"Here are some ideas — frequently discussed, but sadly not yet implemented — that would make the growing, preparation and consumption of food healthier, saner, more productive, less damaging and more enduring." from NYT.
food  health  diet  nutrition 
february 2011
Lettering.js
A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.
jquery  typography 
february 2011
HTML5 Reset
html5  css3  reset 
january 2011
Post Punk Kitchen
vegan  food 
january 2011
How Much CO2 Is Created By…
"Every action, every event, every person, everything emits a certain amount of carbon. This interactive visualization examines some of those scenarios." from GE Data Visualization.
environment  data  visualization 
january 2011
Kickstarter
"Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative ideas and ambitious endeavors."
business  community 
january 2011
Silk
Silk was created by Yuri Vishnevsky as an experiment in generative art.
art  web 
january 2011
As Alike As Trees
new sounds uncovered
music  sound 
january 2011
The American Fast Food Syndrome
"As long as the food industry continues to succeed at imbuing their products with a particular sense of American authenticity, and as long as Americans continue to buy this image, while rejecting the organic, sustainable, and local food movement as part of some liberal agenda, we will remain a country in the midst of a dire health and food crisis."
food  health  culture 
january 2011
Longreads
The best long-form stories on the web.
reading  articles 
january 2011
Less Framework 3
Less Framework is a cross-device CSS grid system based on using inline media queries.
css3  framework  mediaqueries  redesign 
january 2011
Shepard tone
"A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upwards or downwards, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower." from Wikipedia.
audio  music  sound 
january 2011
Calculating Color Contrast
"...two simple equations to determine if you should be using white or black text depending on the color of the background." from 24ways.
color  webdesign  accessibility 
january 2011
Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa.
iphone  mobile  html  css 
january 2011
Interaction Design 1
"In this course students will learn to use the principles of Interaction Design to define a software project..." from WaSP InterAct Curriculum.
design  education  curriculum  reference 
january 2011
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium
"That's when I tell them about the fundamental question of the web."
web  culture  community  redesign 
january 2011
The Importance of Vacation
"The basic premise of construal level theory is that things that feel close get contemplated in concrete, literal terms while things that feel far away allow us to think in more abstract ways." from Wired.
psychology  ideas  creativity 
january 2011
Why Criticism Matters: Translating the Code Into Everyday Language
“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.” from NYT.
literature  books  reading  criticism 
january 2011
Nowhere
"I took a trip once."
travel  magazine  writing  design 
january 2011
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