- Rails Best Practices, Tips and Tricks — Some really handy stuff in here; it’s valuable most for the simple fact that it’s all in one place.
Tagged as: development rails ruby rubyonrails - Design Melt Down — Lovely web design resource; clear, clean, and some good ideas.
Tagged as: design layout typography web
- Kusor.com – Textpattern tags for the impatient user — I’m going to need this, and it sure is easier to skim than the official wiki (not to diminish the usefulness of that tool in any way)
Tagged as: development reference tags textpattern txp - BBC – Food – Recipes – Salmon and asparagus open lasagne with lemon and chive hollandaise — Made this tonight – pretty good, though I’m praying my stomach liked that Hollandaise…
Tagged as: dinner food recipe
- Fuji camera adds gaming features – Joystiq — A digital camera. With games. Much as I love them, I really could care less about them on many devices, and cameras are one. Look at that button layout, it’s disgusting!
Tagged as: camera crap ergonomics games - The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction by Jonathan Lethem — Yes, basically. A nice, tight, essay, about what happened to the promise of 60s/70s sci-fi (part of the answer: Star Wars, that’s what)
Tagged as: essay literarycriticism scifi writing
- O’Reilly: What Is Podcasting — Basic tips on building the RSS feed – the bit so many people are so uninformative on
Tagged as: podcast rss
- Screenshot Gallery – G1 Jockey 4 // PlayStation 2 /// Eurogamer — Fantastic: a bit of plastic you put over your DualShock2 controller to turn it into *reins*. Affordance a-gogo
Tagged as: affordance design game horseracing interface joypad - crabfu steam toys — Yes yes yes. Walking, tracked, other weird model toys – all powered by real live steam. Beautiful model engineering at work.
Tagged as: engineering model steam - zestyping: How to really confuse your party guests. —
Tagged as: confusing daft fun interiors perspective
- Ruby Programming Language Enables Concise Network Programming — Interesting, simple explanation of TCP/IP and API design in Ruby
Tagged as: http programming tcpip tutorial webservices
- UK5 Organics – Organic Food Home Delivery to London — Ooh – they deliver near me. And in the mornings, too. Exciting stuff.
Tagged as: delivery food organic
- How do I take notes on big books? | Ask MetaFilter —
Tagged as: methodology notation notetaking research work - Lost Garden – genre addiction — Daniel Cook on genre addiction, and the expectationgs that come with it
Tagged as: design games
- IGN: Reggie Talks Nintendo’s Future — Full transcript of Reggie Fils-Aime’s speech at TGS 2005. Great statistics.
Tagged as: controllers demographic games nintendo statistics - Lost Garden: Idly gathered game industry statistics of doom — Useful statistics, and the Nolan Bushell link is great.
Tagged as: demographics games play statistics - Terra Nova: The Horde is Evil — The connotations of morality that are attached to your MMORPG avatar
Tagged as: alignment culture gaming morality
- D.I.Y. Design It Yourself — Supports the book of the same name. Looks fun.
Tagged as: design