- Chose Your Own Adventure
Some absolutely beutiful stuff here – visualisations of the books, and the paths through them, and a on-line playable book. I am simultaneously regressing to childhood, and getting my adult design/informatics brain stimulated. Brilliant.
- Typekit
Oooh. Proper, attractive fonts for your website. OK, it'll set you back 25-50 dollars a year, and I bet most people will still set their font sizes far too small, but at least I can use it to make prettier things now.
Tag: web
Bookmarks for October 13, 2009
- Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off | Video on TED.com
Once every seven yeats, Sagmeister closes his studio completely for one year. Here, he gives a talk at TED on what he gets from that year, and it's a fascinating and compelling idea. I wonder if I could arrange to take a sabbatical somehow – I've been at this for ten years, and I know my general level of enthusiasm for hacking about with the next is not what it was…
- Charlie's Diary: Why I hate Star Trek
"I can just about forgive the tendency of these programs to hit the reset switch at the end of every episode, returning the universe to pristine un-played-with shape in time for the next dramatic interlude; even though it's the opposite of real SF (a disruptive literature that focusses intently on revolutionary change), I recognize the limits of the TV series as a medium."
Mr Stross hits the nail on the head of why I don't get on with televised SF – I'm less willing to forgive the reset switch for exactly that reason. - The ghost in the field – Blog – BERG
Ever wondered what your oystercard really looks like? The Ghost In The Field shows us the hidden signals underneath fabric of our cities – the invisible maps of data and super-frequency chattering that increasingly underpin our daily lives. What is your data ghost like?
- Derek Powazek – Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists
"Make something great. Tell people about it. Do it again." This is not just a rule for getting web traffic, it is the single simplest rule for a happy life.
Bookmarks for April 16, 2009
- Free as in "Me" | 43 Folders
Merlin Mann on content republication, and the right of the individual to control who gets to profit by their work.
- Tropo.com
API for a telephony service that can be used with any one of a variety of the usual web languages. Might be handy if I need to start building telephony functionality into web apps.
- Vice Magazine – THE DARK LORD OF LOGOS
This is the problem with my auto-linkblogging. I should have blogged this one first, so that you would have gotten to it second. Damn. OK, go look at the link below. Then come back and look at this one, because bands below really should have gotten in touch with this guy instead.
- The most unreadable metal logos – my 13 picks | Lady Omega : : Design, Art, Music
These are just stunning. As in I'm stunned that anyone thought "yes, that's what I want the logo for my band to be".
Bookmarks for December 10, 2008
- Optimistic, though accurate advice.
Please view these links as a pair. Mangement accepts no responsibility for cognitive distortions caused viewing either without proper context.
- Pessimistic, though accurate advice.
Choose between this, and the next link.
- Upgrade Me! | Ask Metafilter
I pretty much do have everything I want aside from more and more camera lenses, but I have a number of possessions I want to upgrade over the next year or so, particularly in a homewares kind of line. This might be a handy reference.
- 50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008 | Noupe
It's about the time of year I start putting a little brain space into the revamp of my website(s). I'll probably go with yet another off-the-shelf template in the end, but some of these icon sets are just fucking beautiful, and crying out to be used in some way if I do finally do another roll-my-own.
- Wikipedia: List of common misconceptions
An on-line friend passes this one on, saying "new favourite wikipedia page". I think it may be mine, too.
Bookmarks for December 8, 2008
- Not My Gorilla
This is an excellent argument for developing in the manner one wishes to. I don't need to support IE on my personal sites, and while I'm good enough at what I do that they're going to remain legible, the fact is that I am not going to waste hours of my life on support a product I heartily wish people would stop using.
Bookmarks for March 10, 2008
- Google Contacts API
A safer means of allowing websites to access your contacts/addressbook data without having to give them your gmail password. Not that I know anyone who’d be stupid enough to do that, right?
- 3753 Cruithne – Wikipedia
Wikipedia article on “Earth’s second moon”. I was dimly aware that earth had more than one satellite, but this is so much cooler than I had first thought when I heard about it…
- @ETech: Matt Webb’s Tour of a Fictional Solar System
I love his perspective on the world, and really, really must get to a talk by him at some point.
- File this one under holy crap! It starts with (kottke.org)
OK, you can’t draw an exact cause-and-effect line, but that line to a history of “Hallelujah” that I posted the other week did the rounds (I think I got it off Waxy), and suddenly, Jeff Buckley’s version of the song is the top selling track on iTunes.
- ‘I fell in love with a female assassin’
An astonishing account of a photojournalist that did, well, exactly what he says, while covering a story in Colombia. Utterly compelling and thought provoking.
- Photon – High performance Mac OS photo browser, sorter and viewer
I love Lightroom for working on images and library mangement, but it doesn’t half take ages to impport stuff. If I can use this for a first-pass step, it might be quicker…
- Curvy Cross Processing in Photoshop CS3 | Layers Magazine
I suspect this will also work in Lightroom, which is handy, because the current cross-processing filter I have in LR is for shit, so instead, I shall build my own.
Bookmarks for February 29, 2008
- A Guide to Web Typography | i love typography, the typography blog
Out to be require reading for anyone who is designing a website, be they professional or amateur. The same rules apply to corporate sites as they do to your custom blog layout, you know…
- Danah Boyd (and Lawrence Lessig and Esther Dyson) join Livejournal Advisory Board
Well, this is sounds like it can only be a good thing. LJ’s new owners will be getting input from some very very smart people to help them balance the needs of the business and the needs of users.
- Preorder Tree Traversal
A technique for structuring parent-child data in a database that I hadn’t run across before and is much more elegant that the methods I’ve used in the past. This will change my approach to certain kinds of data. (The rest of you can wake up now.)
- MySQL :: Managing Hierarchical Data in MySQL
More stuff about managing hierachical data as infinitely nestable sets. Look, I make an effort to keep too much of this stuff out of this linkblog, but you’re going to have to live with it once in a while, ok?