- ASCII by Jason Scott: You’ve Ruined Everything — Many times, the roles that are taken up in an online community that’s based around a "thing" are so structured and expectant that you could almost fashion carved wooden masks for them.
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- Flickr Photo Download: dowconzki apple ad — Lovely Photoshop job on the Mitchell & Webb Apple ad.
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- SampleSwap.org – Download 4.6 GB of free audio samples (drum loops, vocals, synths, instruments, sound fx…) — When I have a bit more time (ie, the weekend) I should probably check this out.
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- SimpleLog. A simple (and free!) Ruby on Rails weblog application. — Simplelog hits 2.0 – nice going, Garrett. It’s looking really polished, but resolutely maintaining its attitude of doing the bare minimum for a blog. In this day and age of spam and similar, that still means quite a bit – but it’s a good philosophy.
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- Billings 2: Time tracking and invoicing for Mac OS X — Rather nice-looking invoicing app for OSX; worth comparing to Billable, for sure.
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- David Seah : The Printable CEO™ VI.1: Emergent Task Planning — Probably the most useful – for me – of David Seah’s Printable CEO series.
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- New Statesman – Sex, snobbery and sadism — "There are three basic ingredients in Dr No, all unhealthy, all thoroughly English: the sadism of a school boy bully, the mechanical two-dimensional sex-longings of a frustrated adolescent, and the crude, snob-cravings of a suburban adult." Wonderful 1958
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- OmniNerd – Articles: Processing Credit Cards with Ruby on Rails — This might come in handy at somepoint.
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- Malcolm Gladwell – The Talent Myth — "Are smart people overrated?"
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- I Don’t Feel Like It, Why Don’t You // RailsTips.org by John Nunemaker — The "delegate" method: "the User model says I don’t feel like dealing with the inbox method so why don’t you deal with it Action."
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