Links & notes for this month

• • Headdress for OS X -- Headdress helps you run multiple Apache vhosts with its simple graphical interface | apache apple macosx osx utility server development
  • anti-mega: sociology as free jazz -- "the strength of social contact between people cannot be measured by frequency or intensity; a better measure is the number of communication channels used by people" - I like Chris' ideas, but need to think a bit harder on them. | communication social society design sociology dunbar
  • Letterbox: Widescreen Plugin for Mail.app | aaron.harnly.net | Aaron -- Might come in handy should I ever get one of them widescreen notebooks. | mail osx application plugin email mac layout
• • The Big Ideas Behind Nintendo's Wii -- "The classic controller was something [...] gamers had become comfortable with. It had many important elements. But it also had come to dictate a lot of what went into games... Creativity was being stifled, and the range of games was narrowing." | games innovation play creativity wii nintendo inputdevices controllers
  • Gamasutra.com - Converging: An Interview With Henry Jenkins -- "Every artform, every storytelling tradition needs the ability to represent violence because aggression, trauma, and loss are a fundamental aspect of the human condition. The idea that game violence is in and of itself bad is an absurdity." | games henryjenkins play education video violence society
  • Digit news - Casino Royale title sequence stirs -- Short article on some of the details of the - frankly stunning - title sequence to Casino Royale. Surprisingly, done by the same designer as the last four movies. | motion graphics film movie casinoroyale titles
• • Stupid htaccess Tricks « Perishable Press -- Fantastic collection of stuff to do with your .htaccess file, not just copied+pasted, but explained well, too. | htaccess apache security rewrite mod_rewrite urls
  • Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags -- Read it a long while ago, but great to come back to - a fantastic piece of Clay Shirky on fuzzy classifications. | essay folksonomy ia classification critique ontology knowledgemanagement
• • The Seven Core Practices of Agile Work (Agile Advice) -- Agile Work consists of seven core practices. These practices form a solid starting point for any person, team or community that wishes to follow the Middle Way to Excellence. | agile management development process xp scrum
  • Dirt simple .rcss templates -- Dirt simple indeed. More importantly, it actually serves the CSS as text/css , which is usually the kicker for me. | css rubyonrails rails erb templating for:dotcode
• • Re: Case statements and ERB -- Jamis Buck explains how to use case statements in ERB. Useful, given I'd just assumed it wasn't possible. | ruby rails rubyonrails erb
  • Riding Rails: Rails 1.2: Release Candidate 1 -- No ActiveResource, but still some interesting patches to the RESTful behaviour in responds_to. Also... the beginnings of multibyte UTF8 support, which is great. | rails ruby unicode rest utf8
• • iStat nano -- Tiny system-monitoring widget for OSX's dashboard | dashboard widget stats monitoring macosx osx free
• • Paintball Minigun page -- "This page features a paintball minigun that I am developing..." Wow. | engineering paintball video omg airgun
• • The Rails Way: Tracks: Part 1 -- Various good tips on avoiding acts_as macros... | ruby rails rubyonrails programming metaprogramming
  • New Statesman - City of illusions -- "The map is an idealisation, a beautiful illusion of symmetry and grace. It gives form and order to the formless and disordered appearance of the capital." - Peter Ackroyd in the New Statesman, on the exhibition of London's Maps at the BL. | maps cartography culture peterackroyd london cities planning urban architecture
  • Liminal Existence: Announcing Jabber::Simple -- Dead simple Jabber library for ruby | ruby jabber chatbot chat
• • Basic User Authentication in Rails | aidanf.net -- I can never have too many authentication crib sheets... | authentication rails ruby programming howto
  • Pete Lacey’s Weblog :: The S stands for Simple -- "I trust that the guys who wrote this have been shot. It’s not even internally consistent. And what’s with all this HTTP GET bindings. I thought GET was undefined." | rest webservices api architecture software
  • Category:Alcoholic Beverages - Achewiki -- Alcoholic Beverages are a major part of the Achewood scene. All of the major characters (save Philippe) are known to indulge in alcohol, and each character's choice of beverage often serves to reveal a bit about their personality. | achewood comics humour beer alcohol cocktails
  • Atom 1.0 for WordPress -- | atom app wordpress syndication rss feeds blog
  • Marriage is like a wrestling match... (kottke.org) -- Despite the sentiment, the love nelson remains an illegal hold of endearment in our household. | funny love wrestling marriage
• • tow.com » MsgFiler -- MsgFiler is a plug-in for Apple Mail which quickly files emails into existing mailbox folders. | email mac mail software osx application productivity