LINKS FROM August 2005
"This is a website written by a guy who likes to complain about the small fiddly parts of things."
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Pioneering programmer Joshua Dvis works with a star pupil: his software.
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When You Are Your Own Client, Who Are You Going To Make Fun Of At The Bar?
"The minute we saw this equation from the other side we knew what we had to do. Without realizing it, we had already built the audience, now we needed to create a product for it. “If they come, you will build it.�"
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But Is There Intelligent Spaghetti Out There?
"Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design?"
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"Just click any element on this page, for example the banner, and a box will appear that will allow you to set various styling options."
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"Smart, intuitive, and highly configurable, Daikini Photon gives you the power to manage your Movable Typeâ„¢, TypePadâ„¢, Blojsom and WordPress photo-blogs in the familiar surrounds of Apple iPhoto."
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McSweeney's: "Camus is boring. I find Karl Jaspers's philosophy much more enlightening."
"Information and experience are like food for the creative process. It's raw substance. Information needs to be digested to brain-fat so it can re-immerge as mature creative energy."
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"Joshua Davis is a New York based artist, designer, and technologist producing both public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions."
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How to handle an emotional conversation
"If people worked like web browsers (thank god they don’t!) you could just check the “history� button or look at the log files and figure it out. Since people are biological beings (thank god they are!), you need to take a more biological approach."
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Searching for a fake word in the New Oxford American Dictionary
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Boing Boing's $250,000 Intelligent Design challenge (UPDATED: $1 million)
"We are willing to pay any individual *$250,000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster."
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"The all-Target New Yorker is the product of more nakedly mercenary world where advertisers no longer need conceal their aims."
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"Join a distinguished panel of guests as they discuss the possibilities and limitations of blogging as a guerilla marketing device."
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The cumulative genius of Overheard in New York.
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Content Stripped Bare: Death of design; reign of content?
"Design, too, is stripped bare. With content playing first fiddle to the world of digital applications, design (or the kind of design that encompasses album art, book jackets, editorial illustrations, and even websites) becomes less and less important."
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"MailTags is a plug-in for Apple's Mail.app 2.0 (Tiger) that enables you to go way beyond folder filing for organizing mail by enabling metadata tagging."
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Structuralist Collective: The Stifling Effects of the Formulaic Approach
"Using the same approach over and over for projects, just because it's worked before or because it's comfortable, can be detrimental to your creative well being. In fact, it can be devastating."
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"The SeeSS Widget is a quick and handy reference sheet for 140 CSS (1, 2 & 3) properties (proprietary extensions are not included)."
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10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company
"1. Solve the smallest possible problem (that is still big enough to matter) for the user and know exactly what problem you're trying to solve. "
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Creating a Star Rater using CSS
"Can you create a star rating using only CSS. I’m talking the kind that when you hover over the 4th star, there are four stars that show up on the hover state."
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"Ajaxify is a series of BigPAPI plugins that adds various javascript and AJAX widgets into Movable Type's interface."
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Dan Dickinson recorded a song Ted Leo had written the morning of the South Street Seaport show
"Looking at the Google logo, it says to me, "Hi! I'm not very bright and I love looking directly at the sun!""
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Street art around New York, all being released to the public domain
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"At XPLANE we measure five dimensions of quality for any customer engagement. The dimensions include the quality of the output as well as the process"
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" A small, lightweight application timer for OS X. It keeps track (in increments of five seconds) how long you spend in each application."
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WYSIWYG under Movable Type 3.x
Using FCKeditor to implement WYSIWYG in MT
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GUIdebook: "Welcome to the interview with John Gruber, author of Daring Fireball Link points to external site and long-time critic and observer of Mac OS X interface."
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MySpace: Is 'ghetto' a design choice?
"From a design perspective we have to look at it as a failure, but obviously it's not. Why is that? Why hype ugliness?"
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"Available exclusively in Amazon.com's Apparel & Accessories Store, Necessary Objects for The O.C. is the first branded women's fashion collection for The O.C."
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Photo Gallery Templates available
Stopdesign: "Without putting too much fanfare into this, I’m proud to inform anyone interested that the MT version of my Photo Gallery Templates are finally available for download."
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An Overview of Current CSS Layout Techniques
"Over the last several years I’ve been asked by many web designers and developers about how to best get started with building web sites using CSS and standards . . . This overview is sort of my penance.
GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?
Kottke riffs on the idea of a web operating system
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"Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world."
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An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design
"To make better sites  sites that are functional, beautiful, and "usable"  we have to break our design problems up into small independent chunks based on the real issues within our requirements."
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"Welcome to guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them."
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Make tables that can sort without refreshing
"On a landscape that seems to be transforming itself with every new technology, marketing tactic, or investment strategy, businesses rush to embrace change by trading in their competencies or shifting their focus, altogether."
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" A piece about memories, seasons and using the elements of the textual representation of the memory to create an interactive one."
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Scans of the ads in the New Yorker issue that Target completely bought out
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300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have
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"Approximately 1800 web sites later, I have this collection of 300 of the most interesting, unique, and beautiful formations of pixels to display."
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Christian Marc Schmidt designer
"Christian Marc Schmidt designs web sites, user interfaces, books, publications, videos, exhibitions, typefaces, wayfinding and identity systems."
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The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems
"In this paper we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects."
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" Wordcounter ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Use this to see what words you overuse (is everything a "solution" for you?) or maybe just to find some keywords from a document."
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Customer Service Phone Numbers & Email Addresses
Including Amazon.com (1-800-201-7575)
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"This fountain is connected to money currency rates on the internet. It is realtime! Refreshed every five seconds."
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Industries that Don't Seem to Understand the Web
"While there are plenty of businesses that don’t seem to understand that the web can do amazing things for them, there are some cases where an entire industry seems to not understand the full potential of the web."
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Five Mistakes Band Label Sites Make
43 Folders: "Admittedly, this is well off our usual fare, but please indulge me in a public service message on behalf of music fans across the Internetsâ€â€five mistakes that band and label sites make (and a few tips on how to fix them)."
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SFist bitches out the Blog Business Summit PR department
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"Use Protopage for quick access to web sites, and to keep sticky notes"
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Seven Band Names That Would Be Impossible to Book.
McSweeney's: "Canceled Due to Fire"
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"There have been a lot of excellent posts and articles this week about APIs, the Web as Platform, web sites as software companies, and so forth. Here's my own mash-up of some of the highlights"
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"A nasty hangover is Mother Nature's way of telling you, "Fool, I thought I told you not to drink so much. Now you gonna pay." (Don't ask us why Mother Nature sounds like Mr. T.)"
Guy Breaks Up with Girlfriend Using PowerPoint
Last years viral PowerPoint was rediscovered thanks to some helpful people at Ask Metafilter and reposted for everyone's enjoyment.
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"advanced task and priority management for busy, ambitious individuals"
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Late night legend. Wild animal beast. Who will win?
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"et's see: Flown into New York? Check. Booked at the Regency with outrageous demands? Check. Waited on hand and flipper with lavish room service? Check."
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"The elements of design discuss the components of the composition itself, and provide the designer with a basic set of tools to begin working with."
"We focus on the fact that it is Web design and push aside core design conceptsâ€â€concepts that can that make any project stronger without interfering in the more technical considerations later on."
Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet.
" What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user’s precise location?"
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Physics of Passion: The Koolaid Point
Creating Passionate Users: "Forget the tipping point--if you want to measure passion, look for the koolaid point."
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Five California cities that sound kind of dirty
"Fawnskin"
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Hey DJ - Web 2.0 and remix culture
"If the value of the content is created by we the people, then we the people should be able to take that content back and build new things with it."
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Developing web-sites, exploring own imagination (CSS, Color Tools, SEO, Usability etc.)
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"So we let web designers view screenshots of their pages in different browsers, at different screen resolutions and with different plugins. We're trying to make this service easy to use, open for all (including access to the source code) and 100% free, as
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"Shaun Inman is the designer/developer responsible for Designologue, Mint and IFR. Originally from the Boston, Massachusetts area, he now resides in Baltimore, Maryland"
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"The Web celebrates its 10th anniversary and it's still a pain to use -- clunky, slow and unresponsive. But thanks to creative small companies like Chicago's 37 Signals, the Web is finally becoming as fun and flexible as your favorite software."
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"Here's a quick number on how to produce a box with rounded corners using only one image, and off-setting that image for each corner."
Interdisciplinary People vs. Teams?
"Creativity by committee can be doomed to fail if the groups themselves are not chosen carefully by some who knows the talents and the personalities involved."
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"Generate a custom packing list for any journey!"
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"As the stories in the Book of Jobs tell it, the iPod is only one of an entire species to come from the hand of this incredibly Intelligent Designer."
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"First Comprehensive Study of the Actual Online Behavior of Blog Visitors Now Available"
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Interaction Design & Written Language
"Leading users through a narrative requires maintaining enough context and information to communicate current status as well as enough interest and clarity to get them to the end."
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Acts Prohibited by the U.S. House of Representatives' Proposed Flag-Burning Amendment.
McSweeney's: "Assuring the flag that you consider it a really good friend, and then pressuring it to sleep with you."
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37signals: Part 3 and my coffin is being prepared
Whitespace: "Many of us have gotten to the point of where we either give a website a 10 or a 0. Why can't we see what's good and not so good (see that sounds much better than "bad") about websites/apps?"
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SimpleBits: "Here’s a quick look at the methods and techniques I used to create an icon from the Overcast set."
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"These are the celebrity victims of the new-economy bust."
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Getting Real: The problem with preferences, interface design, and the customer experience
"And that’s the point I want to make. One of the hidden dangers of highly customized software, and products flush with preferences, is that it becomes very difficult to craft an ideal customer experience."
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AttentionTrust.org Explained Better
"You want to leverage your valuable attention/time/spending power so you get what you deserve. That's what AttentionTrust.org is championing."
An interview with flickr's eric costello
Jesse James Garrett interviews Eric Costello, the Client Development Lead for Flickr and a prominent web developer.
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Why do Americans love it so much?
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An Open Letter to My Doppelgänger.
McSweeney's: "I'm not sure what my rights are vis-à-vis the doppelgänger contract, but in the interest of maintaining my (our?) reputation, I wonder if we could establish some ground rules."
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Strongspace is a secure place to gather, store, back-up and share any type of file with your co-workers, friends and family. You can upload, download and manage your files over SFTP (Secure FTP) or with any modern web browser.
McSweeney's: "There Are Plenty of Mohicans"
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Rushkoff: "But cable television is not the place to launch the great interactive media experiment for the 21st Century. The great cable TV revolution already happened with CNN and MTV."
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"I think that the new Apple mouse could be really nice. However, I feel that Apple's choice of cartoon mice could have been better."
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ChangeThis: "Everyone is always wondering what kids are thinking. DK gives you view into the complicated and sometimes contradictory world of today's teens."
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"CSS files can be included on the fly, so for example the user can switch to his/her prefered stylesheet without reloading the page. Neat! "
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Drunkey Love - part of el73.be
"Drunkey | Love is the home of free to use resources created by Kevin Wetzels of el73."
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On Cory Doctorow's Apple/Trusted Computer rant: "Doctorow is clearly ascribing deviousness onto Apple, without a single shred of evidence to back it up."
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Wired takes a look at just how A9 pulled off block-view
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"We voted, we sorted, we yelled, we cried, we took a little nap and eventually this is the list we came up with -- our Top 100 Games of All-Time, at least for this year."
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Art prankster sprays Israeli wall
Secretive "guerrilla" artist Banksy has decorated Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side.
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"When the Marx Brothers were about to make a movie called "A Night in Casablanca," there were threats of legal action from the Warner Brothers, who, five years before, had made a picture called, simply, "Casablanca""
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"Current RSS users are predominately male, 66 percent are adults and 65 percent in the 12 to 21 youth age group."
"If you could only buy 6 fonts, what would they be?"
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"These come from years of being frustrated by useless meetings and a true desire to help people get the most out of their work day."
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Apple introduces two-button mouse, a collective silence falls over all those who make the argument Apple sucks because there's no right click.
Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel?
"My data is my life, and I won't keep it in a strongbox that someone else has the keys for."
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"Flickr labs have been hard at work creating a way to show you some of the most awesome photos on Flickr."
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"We believe both web applications and learning about how to create web applications can always be better."
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Interview With Niku Banaie, Director Of Innovation At Naked
"Over the course of a 2 part interview IF discusses with Niku Banaie, the director of innovations, about advertising, Naked and their approach to creativity."
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"Klosterman sat down with SPIN.com to talk about New York, the state of rock criticism, and -- what else -- Foghat."
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Viral Advertising is A Response, Not A Strategy
"He says it can't be planned and is a response, not an intent, to a piece of work that happens to be worthy of passing along."
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"This site was designed as a place for me to convey some of my ideas and keep a record of my thoughts. If it helps people code better websites, then that will make me happy."
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New Yorker: "She’s petite. And I was over in the big run and . . . I am in love. I can’t be cool."
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NYTimes: "A backpack! Has a more ordinary, more benign, more ubiquitous accouterment of modern life ever taken on such a sudden connotation of darkness?"
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A list of good (and bad) musicians' websites
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Gore's Webby TV Network Debuts
"With its debut Monday, Current TV will be judged by the same mundane standards as other networks -- on whether its programming can hold a viewer's interest."
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Essential Resources for Creativity (163 techniques + 30 tips + books!)
"Techniques (163 of them!) by Mycoted should help you with creative thinking - those are the toolbox for you when you get stuck on developing your ideas."
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Innovation: Throwing Design Rules Out The Window
"Sometimes rules should be thrown out the window. Often the most valuable lesson in art and design schools is ignored."
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When the Decemberists' instruments were stolen, their fans clubbed together to buy them some more. How does a band inspire such loyalty?
Types of Stories My Mother Tells
As it begins, you’re pretty sure you’ve heard this one before. Wait, no, maybe this time it’s different. Maybe this time it’ll have an extra nugget of sage advice. Maybe? A catalog of favorite themes.
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