Links & notes for this month

• • post79 blog -- Nice-looking photoblog | photography photoblog blog
  • The long road to simple: creating, debating, and iterating "Add an event" - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) -- Sometimes there’s a lot more to simple than meets the eye. | design usability interaction interactiondesgin IA
  • Path finding in graphs -- Nice article on Dijkstra's algorithm, amongst other things | algorithm pathfinding wayfinding dijkstra
• • The Elements of Style for Designers - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design -- "Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn’t been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place." - Thank you, EB White. | writing design IA informationarchitecture interaction
• • A List Apart: Articles: Where Am I? -- Good navigation tells a story, and good stories have a beginning, middle, and end. | design ia informationarchitecture navigation stories
• • JavaScript textarea selection with mozilla -- If a problem's been solved, no point trying to solve it twice. | highlighting javascript mozilla selection ugh
• • Nested with_scope -- Probably the clearest, most useful explanation of with_scope so far | activerecord howto rails ruby rubyonrails
  • The Challenge of a Free Architecture -- An inquiry into the solutions the architectural profession could offer to the human, psychological implications of the architecture and environments created with technologies which may result from current developments in immersive, interactive computer si | 3d architecture dissertation essay vr
  • stevenberlinjohnson.com: Five Things All Sane People Agree On About Blogs And Mainstream Journalism (So Can We Stop Talking About Them Now?) -- if you're writing an article or a blog post about this issue, and your argument revolves around one or more of these points -- and doesn't add anything else of substance -- STOP WRITING. Pick a new topic. Move on. There's nothing to see here. | blogging blogs journalism media
• • Digerati Consulting: awstats on TextDrive -- I'll need to install this quite soon. | awstats hosting howto stats textdrive
  • The 11 Most Groundbreaking Controllers of All Time Feature on Gamepro.com -- Groundbreaking is hardly the word I'd use; it's a rather uninspiring list, and the copy is dreadfully average. But into del.icio.us it goes, anyhow... | controllers design games hardware interface ui
• • Adhesive - Red Alt -- Make Wordpress posts sticky. Useful for pretending it's a CMS | blog cms plugin wordpress
  • July 2006 Roadtrip - a photoset on Flickr -- James Duncan Davidson's photos from his July roadtrip are breathtakingly beautiful. Proper geography from the US National Parks. | flickr nationalparks photography travel
• • Zaky Infant Pillow: Child Neglect Accomplice - Gizmodo -- One for all the new dads, I feel. | baby ergonomics for:dotcode odd pillow strange