LINKS FROM September 2005
Google refused to let TextDrive renew their Urchin license, so a bunch of passionate, smart, geeks are gonna go ahead and build their own stats program.
Tags: statistics google passion posted
The Guardian's New European Look
"It can take months before the full potential and strengths of a newspaper redesign become apparent. A paper is an instrument and its editors and designers have to learn how to play it to perfection."
Tags: design newspapers typography posted
The DH Interview With Phillip Bouchard, Creator of Oregon Trail
Finally, an interview with the man behind the game I remember most from my childhood.
Tags: games history youth education posted
"Flickr Backup is a utility that allows you to download the pictures you have uploaded to Flickr back down to your computer for personal backup or restore."
A more robust method of positioning a footer
"Recently I've been asked to code up a few sites that require the Web page footer to be positioned either at the bottom of the browser window or at the bottom of the Web page – whichever is visually lowest."
"A young person is constantly taking risks as a means to improve him or herself; an older person feels that he or she has taken enough risks already and is sated with his or her point of development."
Tags: simplicity youth aging posted
"I would like to talk about some blogging approaches I have here on Google Blogoscoped to help make sure, years from now, this blog makes a good archive – maybe it inspires a thing or two on your own blog!"
Tags: blogs design lists tips posted
Why we're releasing our latest album for free on the Internet
Harvey Danger is giving their latest album, Little by little . . . away for free. No catch. They're hoping it will get the music to the people. They are right.
A good story of the final logo Paul Rand designed.
Tags: branding logos design posted
"Web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting & project management software for the part-time independent contractor."
Tags: business free projectmanagement
Visual simplicity: Steve Jobs does it again
"But I think we all can learn a lot by observing Jobs and being mindful of his natural interaction with the audience and his visuals as he tells "his story.""
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BugMeNot requires registration for any "employee, partner, affiliate or legal representative of any site which enforces compulsory user registration" with some great questions.
Tags: funny culture productivity posted
A cognitive analysis of tagging
" "Or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular"
Tags: branding tags interface science usability posted
Subvert from Within: a user-focused employee guide
"Here's my little unofficial guide to creating passionate users for those working in Big Companies."
Tags: business change management passion organization posted ux
"This week, an Esquire editor invited Wikipedia users to edit an article that will appear in the magazine. Wikipedia users reacted strongly, with over 500 edits to WP:ITAAW before the article was frozen."
Tags: magazines wiki writing posted
"Slawesome lets you send emails with your voice. That rules."
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It's not what it is, it's what it enables
"Let me state the obvious: the real value of blogs and wikis is not the tool itself. It's what the tool enables. Sadly, many advocates overlook this simple fact."
Tags: blogs communication posted technology
Penny Arcade pokes a little fun at the Delta SkyMall catalog
Tags: funny posted consumerism
"Get a full local backup of your remote web server with some basic command-line interaction and rsync. Bonus for OS X users: clickable icon backup goodness."
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"It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico."
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"A growing, collaborative resource that describes, tracks and explains culture, commerce, politics, media, sports, brands – everything possible, really – through design."
Tags: design collaboration wiki nicedesign posted
"Googlers from across the company contribute knowledge and opinions which are aggregated into a forecast by the market."
Tags: business emergence predictions technology posted
How Would You Change The 'New York Times'?
An AdAge article in which a few designers think about how to fix the New York Times
Tags: design nytimes newspapers posted
"I see the entire world as a market. To fill this niche I present you Indie Fantasy League. Um, I mean, capitalism sucks."
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"So with that said, we present: HTMLstamps for Adobe Illustrator CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS1, Adobe Photoshop CS2 (as brushes), Adobe InDesign CS2 as well as Macromedia Fireworks and Microsoft Visio."
Tags: design webdesign illustrator
Sometimes a Logo Is Just a Logo
"Quark's new logo is strikingly similar to several others. Is it theft? A global conspiracy? Or a failure to follow basic design principles? Gene Gable gives you the dirt, including ways you can sidestep the same type of predicament."
Links to lots of great cheat sheets including Illustrator, Photoshop, CSS, PHP, MySQL, etc.
Tags: design webdesign lifehacks reference posted
Lifehacker's guide to weblog comments
"Good blog commenters add to the discussion and are known as knowledgeable, informative, friendly and engaged."
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"Hand coding your pages gives you unprecedented control over where each element appears on the page. You control where each element goes. You control how your code is formatted. You have the power."
Tags: design webdesign writing posted
Mobile phones are more than just phones in China
"All this suggests a lot of room for growth, for China at least, in presumably the same "advanced services" that only 17% of UK survey respondents use on a daily basis"
Tags: research mobile china internet posted
Hasbro Toy and Game Product Instructions
Instructions in PDF for every Hasbro game
Tags: games instructions
Stories of how street artists got their names. This installment includes: WK, Elboe-Toe, Klutch, Geo, Spazmat, and Dr. D.
Tags: streetart graffiti art posted
Nokia Phone Hacks, Security, Mod Chips, Discussion, Cellphone ring tones and hardware!
An impressive collection of posters from the Cuban revolution
Tags: art design politics cuba inspiration posted
The humble screw has changed little in 2,000 years, until a stubborn engineer at Illinois Tool Works came up with a fascinating new twist.
Tags: creativity design innovation posted
"We love this idea. What is HSBC using these VW vans for in New York City?" The BankCab gets some PSFK love.
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More coverage of the Guardian's redesign
Tags: design typography newspapers posted
20 courses I didn't take in design school
Kottke: "As part of the conference within a conference for students, Michael Bierut listed 20 courses he did not take in design school (I think I got all of them)"
Kidsbeer proves hit suds for minors
"Kidsbeer, a nonalcoholic brew aimed at children, is catching on with young drinkers and is posting monthly shipments of 75,000 bottles, according to maker Tomomasu Co"
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"MyGoogle PageRank was created to enable webmasters to easily know and post PageRank on their pages without any Toolbar."
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And this time around it will be built by you
"delineate is a community driven visitor tracking service that tells you who your visitors are and what they want from the web."
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The designer behind the I Love New York logo amongst other iconic designs
Tags: design interviews posted
Simplicity: The Goldilocks Rule
Good design gives users just enough, but not too much, information -- once knowledge is gleaned, attention moves easily on to a larger task
Look what I clicked on ... Snoop on the world's top secret sites from your desktop
"Google Earth, irritatingly, won't allow you to type in "top secret military installation" and then provide a handy list of sites to look at."
Tags: google maps privacy security politics posted
Gillette unveils 5-bladed razor with two lubricating strips
"Gillette has escalated the razor wars yet again, unveiling a new line of razors on Wednesday with five blades and a lubricating strip on both the front and back."
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades
"If two blades is good, and three blades is better, obviously five blades would make us the best fucking razor that ever existed. Comprende?"
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" These bits of inspiration are culled from interface designers, architects, authors, jazz greats, and more. What brings them together here is their affinity to our design philosophy."
Tags: design interface quotes usability posted
"The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. It's primary role is to make web designer's or web developer's life easier."
Tags: design typography webapp webmastertools posted
"Onlife is an application for the Mac OS X that observes your every interaction with sofware applications such as Safari, Mail and iChat and then creates a personal shoebox of all the web pages you visit, emails you read, documents you write and much more
Tags: apple free search software visualization productivity posted
"Media allegiance spells limitation. Think first, then choose what tools to use."
Tags: art design business tips lists process brainstorming posted
What's new in the latest beta version of Quicksilver?
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"Ads of the World (AotW) strives to be an advertising library and community site."
Tags: advertising design marketing photography posted
Flash game in which Helvetica and Arial duke it out. Helvetica to Arial: "We don't need your type here."
Tags: art design flash fun typography posted
Methods Other Than Song by Which One Can Be Killed Softly.
McSweeney's: "Chinchilla attack"
"In design, and particularly logo design, the pessimistic axiom that “everything has already been done� is becoming more and more true"
Tags: branding business design logos tips posted
Revolution Controller, Revolutionary
"Imagine it as a virtual light saber that you wiggle, turn, jab, etc... And you can pick two up in akimbo for some two-handed action."
Tags: videogames design innovation posted
"that is why I believe that nano is the new turbo, another technical term appropriated by marketing people and applied in so many ways as to make it meaningless."
Tags: marketing apple technology language posted
Comparing two of New York's best burgers
"The winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003 was JONATHAN IVE, senior vice-president of design at Apple whose innovations include the iPod and iMac."
Tags: apple art design internet ipod technology innovation posted
" Design engineers face the challenge of making consumer products smaller and simpler without sacrificing detail or functionality"
Tags: gadgets ipod small usability design posted
Photo of a note Bush was writing while at the UN saying he has to pee
Tags: funny politics photography posted
A series of Cynthia Greig photos of common objects in tiny proportions
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With RSS
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Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer
Garrett Dimon: "After the popularity of my previous going solo article, I thought I’d lay out some more specific ideas on how to become a freelance web developer."
Tags: business design freelance lists productivity tips posted
"FONTSMACK is a repository of sIFR fonts along with TrueType and PostScript fonts."
Tags: design font free typography
9 Lessons from 9 Years of Interface Design
"As a result, I’ve always approached design as a learning experience rather than a production process of applying guidelines and set processes."
Tags: business design interface learning ux tips posted
The top 10 most offensive religious jokes (as well as the 10 funniest). Both are very questionable lists.
Oddjack Cultural Oddsmaker: O.C. Season 3
"Seth suggests hiding in Sandy Cohen’s eyebrowsâ€â€500/1"
Tags: funny television gambling posted
Questions democrats should ask Roberts: "Would you consider instituting a casual Friday dress policy on the bench?"
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Most people will, at some point, have played "six degrees of Kevin Bacon", the game that challenges you to link the prolific film star to any other in five steps. But Bacon's own thoughts on the game will finally be published next month in a new book.
Tags: fun games movies posted celebrity books
"So, the real value of communicative technologies like social software is that they re-enable and enhance our ability to use a time-tested means of information processing, i.e. the conversation, in new and interesting ways!"
Tags: communication internet posted
Interview with Paul "Scrivs" Scrivens of 9rules
"Paul "Scrivs" Scrivens is barely 25 years old and already has a productive entrepreneurial effort underway building a loose network of high quality blogs under his "9rules" banner."
Tags: blogs business interviews posted
Honey, he shrunk the iPod. How Jobs and his team of Apple innovators created this season's must-have gadget
Tags: apple design innovation ipod music posted
Friendster's Flattening and the Participation Generation
"If Jonathan had instead of found a way to accommodate hundreds of thousands passionate users who were doing a ton of free work on his behalf, I don’t think we would have ever heard of MySpace."
Tags: socialnetworking youth posted friendster myspace
"Need icons for your new website or web application, at the best price there is (free!)? Try one of the following sets"
Tags: art design free icons internet posted webmastertools
"The idea is simple: to try and make $1m (US) by selling 1,000,000 pixels for $1 each. Hence, 'The Million Dollar Homepage".:
Tags: business marketing internet advertising posted
The modern rules of advertising?
"He has drawn up a list of seemingly unwritten rules which, he concludes, might as well be the Advertising Bible."
Tags: funny advertising culture stereotypes lists posted
"This Web site is an invitation to people from all walks of life to share stories and evidence of how they use design in their everyday lives."
"Structure your life as the smart designer does the page. Leave space. Make it vital."
Tags: lifehacks design tips posted
New Approach From Gap to Cut Down on Clicks
""A lot of this was borrowing metaphors from the store experience," Mr. Lenk said."
Tags: ajax interface internet shopping fashion posted
Assessing the new Guardian, with brief nod to the avant-garde (aka Grazia, Heat and The Sun)
A very long look at the Guardian's print redesign by cityofsound
Tags: design newspapers typography posted
Why Google's Print Ad Experiment is a Really Big Freakin' Deal
"Google gets to know response rate, all in one place; they can even (ready for this?) charge based on it."
Tags: advertising google newspapers magazines future posted business
Top Ten Things You Can Do To Get Blogged
Some recommendations companies can follow to help them get blogged
Tags: blogs business marketing productivity tips lists posted
"TheNews.com.au®, was founded by Tasmanian Designer Jason Carter in 2001, with it’s prime objective to focus on design in Australia."
Tags: design css nicedesign australia posted
"Frightening as this idea may be -- that the qualities of distributed social organization so widely championed among tech industry observers are currently being employed to kill innocent people -- it's not even the most terrifying insight to be found"
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Telling the Truth About Chief Justice Rehnquist
Alan Dershowitz: "My mother always told me that when a person dies, one should not say anything bad about him. My mother was wrong."
Tags: history law politics race posted
"His color is a lot like yours, but smooth and shaded like Unified. And thinner. No borders. It’s a very chic look. Reminds me of you, back in the day."
Tags: funny apple design itunes writing posted
"The use of it by one person naturally informs others of its availability and benefits. (eg Get your free web-based accessible at any computer e-mail at hotmail.com, condoms)"
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An interactive gallery of movie title sequences designed by Saul Bass
Tags: art movies design typography inspiration posted
when mainstream media cite blogs
"There's something funny about watching mainstream media pick up their reporting habits from bloggers. I wonder if we get misspellings next?"
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"If you'd like your download directory to be maintainable without creating and changing huge HTML files, just put snif as its index file into the directory and here you go!"
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Project management for a freelance designer: "This article is a starting point to start thinking about communication in the creative process."
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A free ruler application for measuring in pixels or inches on the screen.
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"Six Degrees of Separation" Theory Explained in New Algorithm
"It is remarkably efficient at finding the short paths between nodes without knowing the central network’s structure, say the researchers"
Tags: networking science mathematics culture posted
"Six Degrees of Separation"€� Theory Explained in New Algorithm
"It is remarkably efficient at finding the short paths between nodes without knowing the central network’s structure, say the researchers"
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Nice list of Ajax apps that even includes honorable mentions.
Tags: ajax design technology web2.0 posted
"What those who are afraid of civil society breaking down don't realize is that civil society has already broken down!"
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"Mobile phones are not just bad browsers on resource-constrained devices with crappy connectivity and non-free voice."
Tags: mobile technology posted
"Tags are not organizational innovation they are an interface innovation. The difference between a tag and a category is non existent except that the interface threshold to create a tag is so low that people actually do it regularly."
Tags: tags interface organization posted
Ten more CSS tricks you may not know
"Our article, Ten CSS tricks you may not know has proven to be such a success that we decided it was time to offer you ten more CSS tricks that you may not know."
Tags: css design tips lists posted
"OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept."
Tags: communication creativity language reference writing tools posted
Using OS X's built in color picker with Photoshop
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Writing Inspiration at the Press of a Button
Tags: creativity ideas productivity tools writing posted
Some incredibly honest statements about what it means to be poor. A humbling read.
Interview with Jason Fried of 37Signals
"The best marketing in the world is to give people products they love. Give them things they want to tell others about."
Tags: business design interviews marketing productivity software usability posted
How to build on bubble-up folksonomies...
"For me, this is a pretty compelling argument that understanding semantic relationships between concepts makes folksonomic tagging even more exciting"
Tags: hierarchy ia socialsoftware tags posted
Digital Web Magazine interview with Dan Cederholm
"Ethan Marcotte gives us an interview with Dan Cederholm about his new book, Bulletproof Web Design, and much more."
Tags: css design standards books interviews posted
Web Development Trends for 2006
"Curious about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the coming months and into the next year? Well, our crack team of editors . . . have assembled a list of up-and-coming trends that you should keep an eye on."
Tags: trend internet design marketing posted
"The web is listening to what you have to say. Admiring your design. Talking about your product. Mint helps you identify where the most interest is being generated and over what."
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"Enter your cube's configuration in the space provided below, and hit Solve."
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"Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OSX that makes screenshots of webpages."
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"A key business challenge today is to share a large critical Power Point presentation instantly. With it’s powerful compression ability PowerShrink allows you to do that."
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"This is a plugin set consisting of two plugins, one for entries and the other for authors, that allow you to (finally) define custom fields in a powerful way rather than resorting to hacks."
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Garrett Dimon's site of "Inspirational and Motivational Quotations"
Essential bookmarks for web-designers and webdevelopers
"Essential bookmarks for web-designers and web-developers', previously updated on my web-site, have a new design, a new hierarchical structure and, of course, new web-dev-resources."
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How we got the unusual symbol used for the menu command key
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"But lurking behind it is the more intriguing fact that it is a marketing campaign -- not a political figure, or a major news organization, or even a film -- that ''opened a dialogue'' (as one of the young women said to People)."
Tags: nytimes marketing advertising gender posted
Open Letter to the Kansas School Board
The letter that got the whole Flying Spaghetti Monster thing started
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Publish books yourself with no minimums
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"The value is no longer in maintaining an exclusive hold on things. The value is no longer in owning content or distribution. The value is in relationships. The value is in trust."
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"You played it in study hall. You played it at slumber parties. Now it's time to play it on the web."
"We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a Special Report from Jon Stewart."
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Pasting up big Gonzo faces all over Philadelphia
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The definitive collection of idea generation methods
"This website lists and explains every idea generation method I've encountered during the past 15 years."
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