I forgot how much I enjoy Mark Pilgrim sometimes. Very well said sir, very well indeed.
This just makes me smile, big.
A really nicely redesigned personal site for Jackson Wilkinson. He’s beta testing and using Savoy, the Django project Jeff create, I’ve contributed too, and the “magic” behind T Incorporated.
Well designed, nicely executed and some great messages about why people in the middle are voting for Obama.
Want.
Some really nice improvements both functionally and visually for the debug tools for the Web Inspector in Webkit.
Jon Tan does a great job explaining explaining just what a fonts and a typeface are, very beautifully I might add.
A set of magnets with UI widgets on them that you can use to prototype various apps on either a metal whiteboard or, you know, your fridge. An absolutely fantastic idea.
“More interesting, you can architect a business model or a pricing structure to make it far more effective at generating the behavior you’re looking for. Most broken websites aren’t broken because they violate common laws of good design. They’re broken because their architecture is all wrong. There’s no strategy in place.” The semantics of Information Architect, Designer, Visual Designer, Interaction Designer, etc. don’t really interest me anymore, but I do agree with Jeff’s commentary about educating the public more about what’s happening behind the scenes “design” and in particular web design. It’d be fantastic if clients knew even just a little more about what goes into creating a great website. It would sure make my job a lot easier.
“What we think vs. what they say we think — All the chatter on the Internet, all the traditional news media coverage, and all the pollsters — Perspctv brings it all together in a simple and elegant manner — and gives a unique “dashboard” picture of the elections at any one given moment in time, totally un-biased.” A set of infographics combining traditional news media information with what’s being said on Twitter and blogs. A good looking visualization and I love the “perspective” it gives you putting everything on one page, very nice.
Just what I’ve been looking for. Since I’m still a Django noob whenever I step outside of creating templates, I’ve been needing some good testing environments to start to learn. I’ll be checking these out hopefully in the next few days.
I’ve done it and it worked great. If you’re antsy and want to get it a few hours early this article from Wired seems to be the best one out there.
These are all awesome, but the Excitebike one is my favorite.
Some awesome 8”x8” prints for $15 from Frank Chimero that depict each state using everyday things. I can’t wait to see Oregon and Washington.
I’ve already got a few ideas already on how I’d like to use these.
I’m still holding out for GPS support either in camera or on a card, but this is a step in the right direction. I like the option of uploading to your home machine instead of immediately online too.
Watch it and tell me you didn’t well up a little bit.
Be sure to read the through to the quote at the end.
Great idea. Damn, I wish they had this when I was in New York. Too bad there’s no Subway here in Seattle.
A new resource for developers out there looking to maximize the Flickr API.
“Beck, Stone Temple Pilots, Lucinda Williams and Neko Case are among the first acts confirmed for the 2008 Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival. ” Shaping up to be a good lineup.
“Pirates seized more than two dozen ships off the Somali coast last year.” Apparently pirates are still out there causing havoc. Who knew?
Obama was asked if he would tap the former vice president for his Cabinet to handle global warming. His response, “I would.” I’m tired of waiting, just give him the nomination already.
I haven’t watched the entire thing yet, but what I’ve seen it’s incredible. If he really did write it himself that’s just staggering.
Seth Godin on doing remarkable things instead of worrying about your resume. Agreed.
This is way too much fun to play with—don’t miss the keyboard shortcuts!
A 360-degree view of where I like to go running. Be sure and click and spin it around to get the full effect.