Designing User Interfaces For Business Web Applications at Smashing Magazine (tagged: webdev design ui usability ux prototyping work todo ) Ten rules for writing fiction(part two) via B² – …and 2 of 2. (tagged: writing inspiration ) Ten rules for writing fiction via B² – Inspired by (and including) the ten rules from Elmore Leonard. […]
Op-Ed Columnist – The Fat Lady Has Sung at NYTimes.com — $300 911 calls and: C-Span is just ESPN with only two teams. (tagged: politics economy ) What really happens when you navigate to a URL (tagged: webdev tutorial tech network http ) Coconut & Lime: Asiago & Crab Macaroni & Cheese (tagged: recipe ) […]
Souders blasts off 5 in a row at Ajaxian (tagged: html performance javascript css webdev work todo ) Over Fifteen Pounds of Book!!–Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King at Omnivoracious — looks pretty awesome (tagged: art wishlist ) Comcast enters rebranding territory at The Boston Globe (via /.): W2 Group’s Weber said such a […]
While I was reading this, I liked to imagine that I was at university and that Douglas Crockford was the insanely popular genius professor that showed up late for lectures, and then either spoke too fast or else mumbled a lot, and then locked himself in his office refusing to answer the door during office […]
Building Web Applications With Apache Ant at Julien Lecomte's Blog (referenced in Zakas' Professional JavaScript for Web Developers) (tagged: webdev tutorial javascript css ant build performance todo ) Medical journal recants 1998 study linking autism to vaccine – The Globe and Mail via Slashdot: Ten of Wakefield's 13 co-authors renounced the study's conclusions several years […]
geuis’s helium-css at GitHub (via Ajaxian) — scan your page for unused CSS (tagged: css javascript webdev todo ) Realism in UI Design at ignore the code (via @brown_MINI) (tagged: design ui usability ux icons essay ) Internet Explorer 8 document and browser modes at NCZOnline (tagged: webdev IE8 work todo ) Data URIs explained […]
Super Dress Up Morgan Freeman at Jay is Games (via woot.com) — w? t? f…? (tagged: illustration surreal games blog ) Poor, Poor Child. You have no idea. "It's OK to suck at math; you won't be using much anyway." (tagged: blog software humor programming coding essay ) A Form of Madness at Dive Into […]
Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces At Flyosity (via JR) – re: “what exactly is button?“ (tagged: ui ux Essay todo ) What storytelling risks could Avatar have taken? at B² – having had about two weeks to unpack it now, I must say that I feel similarly. I hope to put together a more […]
35 Google open-source projects that you probably don’t know at 0x1fff — quite a few things to check out here… (tagged: webdev google opensource todo ) Simulating single-payer by Paul Krugman at NYTimes.com (via lawnczar) (tagged: politics HCR Krugman essay ) Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity at The Endeavour (via […]
In-wall USB charger is as cheap as it is ingenious at Engadget — so cool (tagged: USB power charger energy blog ) One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik at BLDGBLOG (via B²) — re: Yucca Mountain (great images and interesting discussion) (tagged: design science future history environment nuclear energy architecture […]