- Book Reviews – read, review, share at Revish! — Revish: a site for "reading and sharing your reading experiences". Social, shared, API\d up. Looks interesting.
Tagged as: books web2.0 reviews social software reading - Introducing the Shoulda Testing Plugin — The Thoughbot gang bring another testing solution to the Rails table.
Tagged as: ruby rubyonrails testing pluging mocking - Design Observer: writings about design & culture — "I hope Helvetica is a smash. It deserves to be. But part of me still misses the days when it was just our little secret." – Michael Bierut on the magic that was typesetting.
Tagged as: design typography typesetting skill history culture helvetica film - Magnetbox — Beautfiul, invigorating design for a website/blog.
Tagged as: blog design layout ingenious - Microsoft is Dead — "I’m glad Microsoft is dead. They were like Nero or Commodus—evil in the way only inherited power can make you. Because remember, the Microsoft monopoly didn’t begin with Microsoft."
Tagged as: microsoft web20 business essay paulgraham internet software - Alternatives to Basecamp for Project Management — Sometimes, you need things Basecamp can’t give you – or workflow it’s not capable of.
Tagged as: basecamp software projectmanagement collaboration project tools - Writers’ rooms | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Books — Photographs of the rooms writers work in, accompanied with short editorials.
Tagged as: writing howwework process writers work desk office study photography - Pearls Before Breakfast – washingtonpost.com — "On Tuesday, he will be accepting the Avery Fisher prize, recognizing the Flop of L’Enfant Plaza as the best classical musician in America." Joshua Bell busks for the Washington Post.
Tagged as: music culture violin society busking joshuabell journalism art
- SCI-FI-LONDON – the UK’s only dedicated science fiction and fantastic film festival — Lots of good stuff in this year’s Sci-Fi London festival – Things To Come in HD, and a Quatermass double bill, for starters…
Tagged as: film festival london scifi - Macworld: News: Free Battlestar Galactica game hits the Mac — Homebrew Galactica Viper/Raptor fighter-combat sim, based on the excellent (and now free) Freespace 2 engine. As a huge BG _and_ FS2 fan, I’ll be checking this out.
Tagged as: games homebrew mod freespace battlestargalactica galactica mac osx free
- Example 2, .ready() vs. load — When you’re manipulating image sizes, you need the image to be fully loaded – so it’s worth waiting for the document (rather than just the DOM) to be loaded
Tagged as: jquery dom scripting javascript - Flash Slitherlink — An online version of Slitherlink. Wonderful puzzle game; very addictive.
Tagged as: slitherlink game puzzle flash online
- graeme nelson: Dirty Views? Clean them up! — (By yielding default content to a view).
Tagged as: ruby rails rubyonrails views templating
- Don McPhee 1945-2007 | Gallery | Guardian Unlimited — A gallery of Don McPhee’s best pictures for the Guardian with commentary from the paper’s picture editor, Roger Tooth.
Tagged as: photography obituary photojournalism guardian - roguelike magazine – issue 1, 2007-03-20 – Interface Concepts — "Aesthetics incorporates more than beauty, and the purpose of this article is to introduce three aspects to build an aesthetics idea for the context of roguelike interfaces."
Tagged as: games play interface interaction roguelike aesthetics - Emacs editing environment, Part 1: Learn the basics of Emacs — "Master the Emacs editor and delve into the depths of its most advanced editing commands that have made it famous." May as well start somewhere…
Tagged as: emacs tutorial editor - The Core of Fun – Raph Koster — All the slides from Raph’s ETech Keynote
Tagged as: play fun games interaction design experience
- SourceForge.net: Console — "Console is a Windows console window enhancement", and it’s great – tabbed shells, multiple shells, decent input support, pretty. Much nicer than cmd.
Tagged as: windows console shell software - PragDave: The RADAR Architecture: RESTful Application, Dumb-Ass Recipient — "I think there’s a lot of merit in following a CRUD-based model for interacting with your application’s resources. I’m not convinced all the hassle of bending dumb browser interactions into a REST-based set of verbs…"
Tagged as: rest rails rubyonrails programming development architecture
- LilyPond – About – Essay — A wonderful, deep, involved discussion of the complexity of typesetting music.
Tagged as: music notation typography software design type
- A DOM Ready Extension for Prototype » Clientside — Let’s face it: on anything remotely complex, document.onLoad just doesn’t doesn’t cut it…
Tagged as: javascript prototype dom scripting
- New at Pentagram: New Work: TIME Magazine — Pentagram’s Time redesign launched; here’s their blogpost on it. Really like the design of the contents page especially.
Tagged as: design layout pentagram print magazine - Polarizing Skies in Lightroom – O’Reilly Digital Media Blog — Pretty much what I do, anyway, but worth a bookmark nontheless.
Tagged as: colors effects lightroom processing photography - Collection: Design Patterns — Chris Messina collects a big pile of design patterns from across the web. Then he sticks them in a Flickr collection. Useful.
Tagged as: design interaction usability patterns screenshots reference for:milestdavies
- Twitter (kottke.org) — ‘"Friends" still isn’t the right word.’ – Kottke on Twitter, with much strong truth, notably this.
Tagged as: twitter kottke social software behaviour network - famfamfam.com: Silk Icons — Can’t believe I haven’t bookmarked this already. Nice, neutral, 700-strong set of icons. Will come in handy for a few interfaces I’m building.
Tagged as: icons free design graphics webdesign