Links & notes for this month

• • OmniGraffle Wireframe Palette | urlgreyhot
    Nice, effective, comprehensive palette for wireframing webpages. A must-download for any Omnigrafflers.
    (tags: omnigraffle wireframe design ui ia webdesign palette template)
  • Strobist: Blog, Newspaper, Family. Pick any Two.
    David's going kind-of full-time on Strobist. Which is great news - it's a fabulous resource.
    (tags: strobist lighting photography blog)
  • OpenID: Why, how, benefits, 37signals
    Nice, customer-facing page explaining the benefits of OpenID to average users. Up to 37s usual standard.
    (tags: openid explanation design copy 37signals)
  • I need to be outside
    This is me, I think.
    (tags: redrobot picture drawing explodingdog)
  • Open Source Food
    Delicious Food. Beautiful Photography. Created, rated and improved by you and fellow food-lovers from all over the world.
    (tags: food recipes cooking opensource photography kitchen community)
  • Binary marble adding machine
    Absolutely beautiful. The video at the end is hypnotic.
    (tags: maths math hardware binary adder woodwork wooden machine)
• • On the ground running: Lessons from experience design « Speedbird
    Remarkable piece from Adam Greenfield on experience design. The second time I've seen the Saarinen quotation pop-up, too. A must-read.
    (tags: design experience interaction ux product service article)
• • Dopplr Blog » Importing your social network from other sites
    Dopplr can now import contacts from other sites - notably Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter... but it can also import hCard from any appropriately marked-up page. Very nice!
    (tags: dopplr portable socialnetworking import contacts)
  • err.the_blog.find_by_title('Sake Bomb!')
    Chris Wanstrath drops the Sake Bomb - it's like rake, but system-wide, and easily extended from the net. Which is very, very nice.
    (tags: rails rake ruby)
  • Rands In Repose: Managing Humans
    Rands has a book. It looks very good.
    (tags: randsinrepose management technology book writing people)
  • OliveToast - Purveyors of fine Macintosh software
    "Just as the mini-player in iTunes does for music; MiniMail puts information about your inbox at your fingertips. You can easily see messages as they arrive, and quickly action them." Want!
    (tags: mac osx email mail.app application software)
• • The Perfect Rails/Debian/Lighttpd Stack...
    Apart from the fact the whole lighttpd/fastcgi stack is a bit old-hat, some useful reminders for those of use not so used to Debian...
    (tags: rails debian lighttpd deployment ruby howto linux)
• • Headshift :: What other conferences can learn from Reboot
    "...when you come back from Reboot, all other conferences suffer by comparison; however, I think there are some lessons that other events can learn from Reboot and LIFT that might help them improve." Great notes from Lee Bryant.
    (tags: reboot9 conferences conference society events)
• • Stefan Sagmeister on design and happiness | 43 Folders
    (tags: design happiness motivation life)
  • Rails Envy: Ruby on Rails Rake Tutorial
    Lots of good sample code, and the links are most handy
    (tags: ruby rails rake rakefile tutorial programming development)
• • Capsule Pipelines - History - Telegram Conveyors
    Pneumatic messaging tubes. Awesome.
    (tags: pneumatic communication pipes tubes messaging)
• • Viddler.com - Rhodri Marsden plays Wichita Lineman on a saw at interesting2007 - Uploaded by rooreynolds
    You really had to be there for full effect... but it was phenomenal.
    (tags: musicalsaw music saw glencampbell wichitalineman interesting2007 rhodrimarsden)
• • blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in
    Marc Andressen provides some interesting analysis of F8. The news for popular applications, such as iLike, isn't good.
    (tags: facebook f8 platform api web20 development scaling business)
• • Painfully Obvious » Blog Archive » Packing Prototype
    If in doubt, compress your own - the Prototype team aren't going to do it for you, after all.
    (tags: javascript compression optimization framework library)
  • Historical Anatomies on the Web: Hua
    (tags: historical anatomy)