Hyperlinks
Link Log
Thursday, October 27, 2005
- www.myspace.com/harryandthepotters
- This has got to be the dorkiest band I've ever heard. Lots of fun.
Sunday, October 23, 2005
- H & S Bicycles
- …because I'm always forgetting the hours/phone#/address of the shop where I bought my bike.
- flying lawn mower
- whacky shit.
Friday, October 21, 2005
- Leatherman e306x/e307x
- drool
Thursday, October 20, 2005
- CUTCO Cutlery: Cook's Combo - Santoku Knife and Trimmer
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For fun in the outdoors I enjoy swedish stainless steel, but for kitchen knives Cutco is unmatched. They're sharp, strong, easy to use (dishwasher safe) and guaranteed forever. We sent in one of Cybil's grandfather's knives after he died, the handle was chipped and the tip was busted off; they fixed it.
Now Cutco has this new combo that looks like the perfect way to introduce somebody to their knives. We usually just give people a trimmer, and it winds up becoming their favorite knife. Now with the new Santoku they could easily become their only knives.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
- QuirksBlog: ... and the winner is ...
- No resounding, "AhHA!" but at least there is progress and the functions are tight. (context: addEvent() recoding contest)
- Vitaly Friedman | Blog: 20 Best License-Free Official Fonts
- I should never have followed this link. I've whittled my font list nearly down to only web fonts (those installed on most user's systems) and those in my Adobe folio that are talked about by Bringhurst. It is not easy to reduce one's list of installed fonts, but the only way I'll ever get any good with the ones I have is to continually shrink the list, not grow it. But then again with Bringhurst my list of modern and sans-serif faces is pretty short, so maybe I could…
- CSS layouts: liquid, fluid, elastic, flexible, jello...
- Very impressive CSS layouts, all using the same simple XHTML (no nesting), all (or nearly all) flexible layouts, and no hacks!
Monday, October 17, 2005
- Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : Be Willing To Be Wrong
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"People can scan disparate patterns more easily than homogenous patterns."
This makes perfect sense. As visual elements begin to look more like eachother, more uniform, the overall esthetic may be nice and soothing, but distinguishing the individual bits (which is the important part) becomes harder.
Very cool to hear about all the real user testing they're doing. I'm impressed. We might all learn something from it too.
Sunday, October 16, 2005
- Meet the Life Hackers - New York Times
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Eat your heart out Mr. Bailey, this crazy lady has not 2, but 3 side-by-side vertical flat panel monitors. Highlights of the article:
The results? On the bigger screen, people completed the tasks at least 10 percent more quickly - and some as much as 44 percent more quickly.
and here's a study to support our practice of starting work at 7am and putting in most of our productive time before lunch:
In the 1920's, the Russian scientist Bluma Zeigarnik performed an experiment that illustrated an intriguing aspect of interruptions. She had several test subjects work on jigsaw puzzles, then interrupted them at various points. She found that the ones least likely to complete the task were those who had been disrupted at the beginning.
Friday, October 14, 2005
- Escape My Head: TTTk, Travel Tinker Trouble Kit
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Add this to my preparations for pending travel. Which reminds me, I should move MacGyver up higher on my Netflix que. Hard to compete with Babylon 5 and Thundercats though.
Update: Here's another version. And here's a pro's Mini Survival Kit that's clearly been refined over time.
- The Nexus of politics and terror
- Conspiracy theorists eat it up. I for one believe it 100%. Our president is nothing short of an evil dictator, and to top it off I believe that he pretends to be even more fucking stupid than he actually is, to gain votes and also to put world leaders off their guard so that when the oil crisis hits and we take military control over the middle east nobody will see it coming. Or, more likely, when we place our man on the thrown in Iraq, errr, have our man voted in in a fair and public election, world leaders wouldn't suspect our horse's ass of a president of setting up a puppet dictator, even though the US has done it many times before. End rant. I don't know what I'm talking about. I just don't trust Mr. Cunthair.
Thursday, October 13, 2005
- Book thrown at proponents of Intelligent Design
- Playing catch-up on last weeks news, this is pretty damning evidence against those neanderthal creationists. I like it.
- Thinking Machine 4
- brilliant AI visualazition. And it's done in the delightfully clashing orange+green on a grayscale interface.
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
- PBF archive
- Hilarious animal cartoons. My favorites: Zoo Keeper, Volcano Snails, Billy The Bunny, Bunny Easter, Gnome Bubbles, Freaking Vortex, Not Today Little One, Today is my Birthday, Eden, and Angry Hammer. via Centripetal Notion. If I filed things this would go under "twisted humor". There were a bunch that I really enjoyed but didn't feel comefortable linking to, which says a lot if you followed any of the above.
Monday, October 10, 2005
- Justin Blanton | iPod nano + Brasso + invisibleShield
- so here's the question, can I last the 4-6 without scratching the hell out of the thing (i left the original cover over the screen) until the official tube finally comes out, or do I go ahead and get this?
- Google Reader
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I'll give this try, subscribe to a few feeds and see how it compairs to the industry standard web reader: Bloglines. Some of it feels a little less intuitive and a little more gimmicky than I might prefer.
You know who I'd like to see make a feed reader? 37signals. A dirt simple bare-bones reader that my parents could use. Or, how about this, what if Gmail went ahead and integrated a reader straight into your email? The controls would be slightly different, the conversations would be one sided, and you'd have unsubscribe and such instead of reply. But I guess you're inbox would get rather cluttered really fast. It would almost need an automatic filter, applying the label "feed" or something, and archiving it. Anyway, just brainstorming how the whole feed reader concept might be made more accessible to the mainstream. Podcasts are making it big with their iTunes integration, maybe feeds need to piggy-back on something as mainstream as email?
Sunday, October 09, 2005
- UK Street Map Coordinate Converter
- handy tool for dealing with various sorts of location finding data.
Saturday, October 08, 2005
- The National Trust
- This site is the perfect comanion to the British Heritage Pass Attractions.
Friday, October 07, 2005
- Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
- Just found out they're making my middle-namesake into a movie. I should have read the book long ago. Maybe I should wait now until I've seen the movie, so as not to ruin it.
- CSS: Specificity Wars (JPEG Image, 900x900 pixels)
- Now this is how specificity should be taught. While I appreciate the whole multiply IDs by 100, classes by 10 and add them up along with the html elements, I don't like that teaching method because it just isn't accurate. 11 HTML elements won't take precedence over 1 class. So that method, while a quick and dirty hack easily understood by math geeks, is not technically accurate. But this way of teaching it is accurate, and far more logical. I mean, 11 Storm Troopers aren't going to beat Darth Vadar, right? Obviously.
Thursday, October 06, 2005
- CSS branching techniques
- This article nails just about exactly how I do my CSS patching. The only difference being that I have little love for IE5 on the Mac, so I haven't been importing an ie5mac.css file. Same goes for version 4 browsers.
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
- Orson Reviews Serenity
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"And I'll tell you this right now: If Ender's Game can't be this kind of movie, and this good a movie, then I want it never to be made."
Almost makes you consider forgiving him for his Homosexual Marriage and Civilization bullshit. But then again, not really. At all. I do however share his sentiment that Ender's Game must be made this good, or not at all. Now we'll just have to see if he get over his whole mormon affliction and let the best person possible make his movie. Might have to wait until he dies.
- Sheldon and ProFont
- Setting up a new programming environment, but I'd misplaced my Sheldon Narrow. So here's the link again so I can download these excellent little programming fonts. Of course I'll have to run them through the encoding test to see what their foreign language support is like. But I'll have to switch over to MingLiU (or some such unicode font) anyway when it's time to play with trad chinese again.
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
- PSPad editor supports UTF-8
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I've been looking for a simple editor that supports UTF-8 encoding without adding a BOM (byte order mark) for two or three years now. To have at last found an alternative to UltraEdit is a releif. I won't even care if it sucks.
Update: as I'm figuring out how to use this app I'm compiling a list of tips/tricks on ta-da: PSPad tips/tricks
- ViewSonic: Products: Desktop Displays: CRT Monitors: Graphic Series: G220fB
- When I get the check for my next project this is what I'm going to get. Jeff got his for $650 (w/ free shipping) a year ago, the price looks like it has dropped a couple hundred (based on a froogle search), if I can find someplace that has one in stock that is.
Monday, October 03, 2005
- find your whiteboards
- …for when you lose the obscure address.
- No Rest For The Wicked -- an online comic
- I haven't read enough of the comic to give an endorsement yet, but thought I'd blog this for the typography, and the interesting sentence structure navigation, something I've experimented with but not yet had success. In this case it comes off as almost a "cloud", which were trendy for like 2 days, but I never really bought as a navigation tool. Just let me sort the damn tags by frequency. Back to the sentence structure nav – I like the concept of integrating the navigation into the contents of the site. I'm starting to have my doubts as to whether people even use navigation (outside applications), since searching is so much more efficient. If it is true that people don't use navigation as much as search, then putting the navigation in with the content might catch a visitor with their brain actually turned on, not just in scan mode. Or it might even catch them scanning, a process during which normal nagivation bars may be ignored. Anyway, Something to be experimented with on personal sites, not professional work.
