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  • visualcomplexity.com | Love will tear us apart again
    “Using information design principles and graphical techniques, the 85+ recorded covers of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is mapped in relation to the original recordings by the band.” Lovely.
    (tags: music visualisation dataviz infographics)
  • Obtaining latitude/longitude for UK postcodes
    “this is probably a bit naughty” – maybe, but a nice hack nontheless.
    (tags: mapping screencraping ruby hpricot curl geo geodata)
  • Penguin Classics – Boys Own Books – Penguin Books Ltd
    Beautiful new series with some lovely covers – the cover for The Man Who Was Thursday makes me want to buy it all over again. It’s just perfect.
    (tags: books publishing design covers)
  • LightroomNews » Sharpening
    Long, detailed article explaining the new sharpening controls in Lightroom 1.1. Looks like a must-read.
    (tags: lightroom photography sharpening tutorial)
  • RubyForge: Sequel: Project Info
    Nice database front-end that’s not a full ORM, but useful for boring db maintenance, that’s for sure.
    (tags: ruby sql database)
  • Introducing templatemaker | Holovaty.com
    Template maker is “a Python library for extracting data from similarly formatted text strings.” Looks super-useful.
    (tags: python scraping text processing utility)
  • Md Emran Hasan aka phpfour » Blog Archive » 10 jQuery Essentials
    jQuery plugins, really, but probably worth a look.
    (tags: jquery plugin javascript development)
  • Uni-Form
    Modular form componentry; at a first glance, it looks good, but I want to go over it in a bit more detail…
    (tags: css form xhtml webdesign markup html forms)
  • Unpacking the Zeitgeist
    “…at which step in this narrative would my 1977-era audience first say “you’ve got to be shitting me!” … and when would they start moaning and holding their head in their hands?”
    (tags: wow spamming advertising goldfarming futureshock)
  • Introduction to Abject-Oriented Programming — Typical Programmer
    “The number of lines of code in the application is a common measure of the importance of the application, and the number of lines a programmer can produce in a day, week, or month is a useful metric for project planning and resource allocation.”
    (tags: programming development practice methodology humour funny)
  • Don’t give up the day job | Rock | Guardian Unlimited Music
    “Journalists are always asking us if we actually want to be successful. I am successful. I get to make records and do all that stuff, and if it goes tits-up I have a decent job.” Broken Family Band are adamant on keeping the day job.
    (tags: work music pop job career brokenfamilyband)
  • Railscasts – Free Ruby on Rails Screencasts
    Rather good, free Rails screencasts. Short, sweet, accurate. Lots of good stuff in them.
    (tags: ruby rails screencasts tutorials training learning)
  • billable_manual:customizing_the_invoice_template [Clickable Bliss Wiki]
    How to customize the templates in Billable. They’re just XHTML, you know.
    (tags: billable templating invoicing macosx)
  • Projectionist: A tumblelog
    The project.ioni.st archives are very, very beautiful
    (tags: archives design layout tumblelog)
  • Doors of Perception weblog: New concept of mobility – in three lines
    “Reducing the movement of matter – whether goods, or people – is a main challenge in the transition to sustainability.” The other two lines are as good.
    (tags: mobile mobility innovation technology thackara)
  • The best digital comics for your PSP
    Free comics for display on the PSP. Nice.
    (tags: psp comics)
  • New Statesman – A noble trade
    “Why is the girl in the centre smiling? Her fiancé lies at death’s door after being rescued from the sea. She smiles because she saw a press cameraman and knew her picture was going in the papers.” Nice article on press photographers.
    (tags: photography journalism photojournalism press news media)
  • YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “Quality” » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
    Wonderful talk from Doug Crockford. Must download.
    (tags: programming quality development engineering software talk code)
  • N. B. Horvath’s Blog: Inform 7 Code Poem Challenge
    Just beautiful. The sonnet and haiku are my favourites so far. (Inform 7 is a natural-language programming language for writing text adventures).
    (tags: poetry if code inform7)
  • The Daydream Blog » Blog Archive » Searching for the HIG’s Boson
    Some nice, insightful commentary on the relevance of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines in 2007. Good stuff, for anyone interested in interface design.
    (tags: mac os ui interface interaction design usability)
  • scottberkun.com » Blog Archive » Asshole driven development
    “Any team where the biggest jerk makes all the big decisions is asshole driven development.” This, and many more gems, can be found in this Scott Berkun blogpost.
    (tags: development practice methodology management software programming humour)
  • Wicked Problems
    A wicked problem is one for which each attempt to create a solution changes the understanding of the problem.
    (tags: design problems management research)
  • 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)
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