Category: links + bookmarks

Some links for February 6th through February 17th…

• 25 Best Blogs 2009 – TIME
  “Worth a browse”
• AIGA Design Archives
  “"20,535 examples in archive… sweet jebus" — GWB”
• 20 tips for better conference speaking
  “Good list.”
• Headphones: Antler Headphones Help Attract a Mate
  “Something oddly familiar about these headphones.”
• Zakaria: The Canadian Solution | Newsweek
  “Canada has done more than survive this financial crisis. The country is positively thriving in it.”
• WhatTheFont for iPhone: Overview « MyFonts
  “"With the iPhone version of WhatTheFont you can use the phone’s built-in camera to photograph the text in question (or choose an existing image from your photo albums). The app allows you to crop the image, focusing on only the important parts before uploading. After confirming which characters are used in the image, the app provides a list of possible matching fonts. You can then either e-mail a link to a MyFonts page with more info on that font, or open it up in the iPhone’s built-in Safari web browser."”
• Scene stealer: The aXXo files
  “"Though the mainstream media ignored it, this was a landmark moment for millions of filesharers worldwide: the 1,000th movie uploaded by aXXo, the internet's most popular and enduring pirate. If you already know his name, chances are you've been doing something illegal."”
• Concrete Block Humidifier by Sang-Jang Lee » Yanko Design
  “I would like this to be for sale. Old MTL apartments are dry.”
• FFFFOUND! | Apartment Therapy New York | AT Europe: London – Paul Smith’s Westbourne House Flagship Store
  “Love this wall”
• Why your avatar matters
  “Thank the gods Luke created me a killer one i've never tired of.”
• The Douche Card
  “"The Douche Card — Tired of arguing with complete morons? Tired of getting into bar room brawls? Well now avoid the confrontation with our glorious Douche Card. Simply hand it to the asshole in question and walk away. Problem solved."”

Some links for January 30th through February 5th…

• BBC – Radio Labs – How we make websites
  “Process, process , process”
• Track your new subscribers in WordPress and Mint – Blog – Campaign Monitor
  “Useful for WP folks out there who are also using Campaign Monitor”
• Introducing Cufón – sIFR Alternative | Chris Jennings
  “"The game has been changed for those of us who are sick of the troublesome process of flash image replacement with tools such as sIFR. A new javascript-rendered alternative, Cufón, is geared to take the front-end design and development scene by storm."”
• ‘Immortal’ jellyfish swarming across the world – Telegraph
  “The things we don't know.”

Some links for January 21st through January 28th…

• The MacTipper Blog: Enable CD/DVD Sharing On All Your Macs
  “Excellent tip”
• Op-Ed Contributor – Back on Walton’s Mountain – NYTimes.com
  “Thoughtful Op-Ed from Douglas Coupland”
• WRITING ON WATER: THE ECSTASY OF SURFING | More Intelligent Life
  “Surfing piece from the Economist's offshoot quarterly lifestyle mag (… with Paris on the cover – bleh)”
• EverSave 1.0.1
  “Auto-magically save all docs between app switches or at intervals”
• Japanese Road Trip in Transforming Toyota Truck
  “Wow”
• Hex Color Picker
  “Lets you get and edit hexadecimal HTML color codes in the standard Mac OS X color panel.”
• favicon.ico Generator
  “I had to make a stevey.com favicon — this is the place to butcher that nice PNG to and ICO”
• Designing Web Interfaces: 12 Standard Screen Patterns
  “worthy of review”
• Toxel.com » Transparent Gadgets and Creative Designs
  “Some cool stuff”
• NFB.ca
  “The NFB reaches a new plateau finally — "Welcome to the NFB's new online Screening Room. Here you can watch full-length films, clips and trailers – all free for home viewing."”
• Layers | Screen forensics
  “Capture your displays as a Photoshop layered image”

Some links for December 29th through January 18th…

• Bakumatsu Koshashin Generator
  “NIce old timey effect.”
• Georgia On My Mind
  “"Mathew Carter’s graceful serif typeface Georgia is re-discovered by Web Designers. Featured here are 32 web sites that rely heavily on Georgia to display their content."”
• BLACK CAB SESSIONS
  “One song. One take. One cab.”
• Maoz Vegetarian – Union Square – New York Magazine Restaurant Guide
  “On my list to eat here.”
• How to Add Auto Complete to Your Google Custom Search Engine
  “Useful as we use CSE for some clients”
• The Pioneer Woman Cooks
  “The "Black Eyed Pea Salsa" looks amazing. (Thanks NC)”
• Diamonddave soundboard
  “Made me laugh”
• PS3 Sags in Battle Again Xbox 360, Wii – WSJ.com
  “The beginning of the end for SONY. Hard to believe they were such a powerhouse (who still produces amazing tech) and somehow blew it.”

Some links for December 15th through December 28th…

• Shots Between Takes – The New York Times > Art & Design > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 7
  “Couple great photos”
• Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » rug roundup part one: runners
  “Looking for a long funky hallway rug for our apartment – this is inspiration.”
• Cassette tape USB hubs
  “Love this”
• Forty-Two: half-star ratings in iTunes
  “Good hack”
• Project No. 8 / Danielle Aubert
  “I'm so curious what's in this book!”
• Surfing still shapes life of landlocked Gerry Lopez – Los Angeles Times
  “Gerry in the LA times”
• Surfers, Rejoice: Some Extreme Waves Getting Bigger | Wired Science from Wired.com
  “Hmm”
• CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA
  “Heavy looking flick.”
• WordPress “Art Direction” Plugin | jcksn
  “Per post "CSS/Design" control in WP 2.7”
• Is This Your Paper On Single Serving Sites?
  “"There is .. a growing and unusual phenomenon where site authors pursue a different approach. Many people have created sites that span merely a single page and do one thing—or nothing."”

Some links for December 2nd through December 15th…

• Best of 2008 – Last.fm
  “Lesson learned: Coldplay is still damn popular.”
• MacBook Pro tip: resetting SMC saved my day – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  “For future reference – my battery has been acting flakey”
• YouTube – Vinyl – Documentary
  “Not so much for me — but to show some buds who LOVE vinyl”
• Agrippa (a book of the dead) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  “One of the most inspiring pieces of art I've ever heard of.”
• pinvoke – Icons and pixel fonts
  “Great 1000 piece icon set”
• Gaia Framework for Adobe Flash
  “Crazy stuff”
• New Oslo Opera House Is Really a Stealth Skate Park
  “Makes me happy”
• Eco Warrior James Pribram Pushes To Change No Surfing Laws In Chicago | News | Surfers path
  “I support this guy”
• Apartment Therapy | House Tour: Lisa & Alex’s Craftsman Loft Montreal
  “Love this MTL apartment”
• How to Build an Igloo
  “Two Inuit men of the Far North build an igloo, using snow, a knife and their know-how.”
• Salendro Design : JivJiv bird hooks : Panali Key Tree : Sustainable hardware : Aluminum
  “Hand them your keys, bags, clothes, jewelry and more. Sustainability features include reclaimed packaging and a waste-minimizing cutting pattern.”
• Ralph McQuarrie’s Battlestar Galactica – a set on Flickr
  “Classic BSG concept art”
• #9 Changing In Public « Stuff Surfers Like
  “"The act of changing in public will remain a social phenomenon unique to the sport of surfing and the overall surfing experience as a whole."”
• The Grid System
  ““The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice.” — Josef Müller-Brockmann”

Some links for November 20th through December 2nd…

• The ugly man behind the curtain in music publicity… – Music Think Tank – Music Think Tank
  “"This is a post that I have been working on for a few months… I have been hesitating to publish it because it exposes the ugly man behind the curtain in music publicity."”
• Neoprene MacBook sleeve
  “Recycle an old wetsuit”
• MUJI AWARD 03 | Results
  “As someone I know always says… "Awards for achievement in the area of excellence"”
• wordpress-comments – Google Code
  “Interesting looking app”
• Pushpin Mario – a set on Flickr
  “Wow”
• Reebok rewards Nike Marathon ‘winner – San Jose Mercury News
  “Marketing can be a nasty business”
• Falling Behind?
  “"Are you open to some constructive advice? Turn off Twitter. Turn off iChat. Close your browser. Ignore RSS. Close your email if needed."”
• Boing Boing’s Holiday Gift Guide part two: Fiction – Boing Boing
  “Buy some books for 2009”
• nick_ollie_warnerbanks_web.jpg 334×500 pixels
  “Love this photo for the light / style / tweak / gap & no visible landing.”
• mustard-roasted potatoes | smitten kitchen
  “To make”
• YouTube – Police dash cam of Meteor over Edmonton, Canada
  “Crazy — good shot.”
• One Million Beer Bottles Later and it’s a Buddhist Temple | greenUPGRADER
  “Wow. wow.

  "The Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple is about 400 miles northeast of Bangkok in the city of Khun Han close to the Cambodian border. Using Heineken bottles (green) and Chang Beer bottles (brown) the monks were able to clean up the local pollution and create a useful structure that will be a visual reminder to the scope of pollution and the potential we can make with limber minds."”

Some links for November 10th through November 19th…

• Wii Energizer Power & Play Charging Station – a set on Flickr
  “Everyone who owns a Wii needs a battery solution. Something Nintendo should have included from the beginning IMHO.”
• Make Cake in a Mug – Wired How-To Wiki
  “You’re working at home and your mind starts to wander to snack possibilities…”
• DWR : Tepee
  “For next years surf/camping trips !!”
• Star Wars Storyboards – a set on Flickr
  “Early storyboards from 'The Star Wars'”
• The Wind Beneath : Miju 2008
  “Excellent pieces by a bud of mine.”
• Wooster Collective: Seen On The Streets of Chicago
  “Excellent graffiti”
• Stairporn.org
  “Not quite what you think it might be. Awesome.”
• Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops
  “Free stock sound effects — useful for some work stuff”
• YouTube – Buckminster Fuller – Live Your Life as an Experiment
  “Worth watching”
• Give Up and Use Tables
  “You know, we've all been there. We want to make it work with CSS. But sometimes it's just not worth the effort. The hacks and conditional comments ruin our clean markup. And we spend hours trying to make a simple layout work. Occasionally, we have to remind ourselves that we've done enough and it's time to move on.”
• YouTube – good morning Cornwall!
  “Beauty of a video — found via http://flyinglongboarder.blogspot.com/”
• CORDUROY LINES : ISSUE 7 (Online Longboard Surf Magazine : November/December 2008)
  “Latest issue of this well done online PDF mag.”
• 280 Slides
  “An online "Slideshow/PPT" app which really emulates a local app. Impressive.”
• National Audubon Society Field Guide to Trees
  “I want this. I want the whole series.”

Some links for October 31st through November 10th…

• World’s Largest Truck Goes Robotic : Discovery News
  “What could possibly go wrong?”
• COPY+PASTE Character
  “Shortcut for those tricky characters.”
• Sad Trombone
  “Excellent utility when times are tough.”
• YouTube – “Star Wars” – an a capella tribute to John Williams
  “Super well done.”
• Internet video by Motion Pacific
  “Some cool stuff going on here.”
• Script kiddies have awesome tools | dow.ngra.de
  “Behind the scenes look at one script kiddy hack.”
• Massive waves a mystery at Maine harbor – The Boston Globe
  “Wonder if anyone caught it .. "Dockworker Marcy Ingall saw a giant wave in the distance last Tuesday afternoon and stopped in her tracks. It was an hour before low tide in Maine's Boothbay Harbor, yet without warning, the muddy harbor floor suddenly filled with rushing, swirling water."”
• Yahoo! Personal Finance: Meet the 29-Year-Old Retiree
  “Meet the 29-Year-Old Retiree. Really.”
• Movies — The Facts About Dan Fowlie and Pavones
  “A documentary of the history of Pavones, Costa Rica: "King of Pavones"”
• Zombie world record broken in Nottingham, UK
  “"As any self-respecting zombie knows, it's very important that they come together and dance the Michael Jackson Thriller dance because that's what zombies do when they congregate" he added."”
• Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory Preview | Transworld Skateboarding
  “OMG – Now that's a fun house.”
• Opening The Door On The Quiet Revolution | Features | Surfers path
  “Excellent interview: "One of the pioneering brothers talks about all things Bonzer, one of the most influential board designs in surfing history."”
• Prototyping with XHTML – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
  “Part of my job well described.”
• Gear’s heart = Mind blown
  “"The action is half way through — Oh it's made from paper. PAPER!"”

Some links for October 22nd through October 31st…

• Whale Wars : Animal Planet
  “This show will do a lot for the image / support for Paul and the crew.”
• Bing Surfboards
  “Long board 'porn'.”
• blog | web.without.words
  “Welcome to web without words – a visual playground. Every week I'll take a popular and known website and reconstruct it by removing all words and images, replacing them with blocks (what is typical in the "concepting" phase of a design process).”
• YouTube – LOST.TV – CORY’S LEFT
  “Mile long pumping left — Cory Lopez on his first wave during a historical session at "the new Cape St. Francis". Cory went to this spot a month earlier but had to bail before he scored it on a good swell but he vowed to return. This is the first wave of that return session and the first time this wave has been recorded on video. Lots of seals, lots of rubber and lots of things that eat seals.”
• St. Laurent Blvd. will have free wireless Internet
  “Interesting to see how well this works.. and just as we move out of the neighborhood !!”
• Remote file backup services: Carbonite review
  “Good thread talking about (and bashing) some remote backup options.”
• Get ready to rocksteady
  “On the small caribbean island of Jamaica a music was born that conquered the world. Coming out of the ghetto, it has inspired generations to believe in and to fight for a better world. Today, everybody knows Reggae and its superstar Bob Marley. But the story of the founders of Reggae has never been told. Forty years later they are reuniting for the first time to record their old hits on an album and to tell their story.”
• Poladroid project : the easiest and funniest Polaroid Image Maker
  “Simple one trick pony.”
• Josh Mulcoy, Sam Hammer and Timmy Turner snow-camp to find freezing, perfect waves in the North Atlantic, ICELAND REVISITED | Surfline
  “Hard frick'n core”
• Recipes, Food and Cooking by Mark Bittman – Bitten Blog – NYTimes.com
  “One of our favourite cooks. He's got a great quality NYT's podcast that TIVO delivers.”
• The Barnyard Strategist – NYTimes.com
  “In a smart end-play which bypasses the lobbyists; California is about to radically begin changing the way animals are raised for food next week. Current polls see the bill passing by a wide margin.”
• Garamond powerline
  “Truly beautiful typography”
• Sign up on Huffduffer
  “UI on this is lovely.”
• Lost Footage Found! Get a Sneak Peek at the New Season
  “Trailer for 2009”
• smush it!
  “Image optimization is an art that not many people master. There are many good image editing tools that allow us to get the best visual result for a certain file size but "under the hood" a lot more optimization can be done.”

Some links for October 9th through October 21st…

• YouTube – Tyler Warren riding a 10′ Hobie Legacy
  “Excellent style. To be studied.”
• Op-Ed Columnist – A Farm Boy Reflects on Animal Rights – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com
  “Talking about Cali's coming ban on farming practices.”
• paulhammond.org: Conditional classnames
  “CSS IE smoothness”
• Sailing Is Romantic | Surfers path
  “The reality of sailing around the world on a boat.”
• YouTube – Evolving Wall Animation
  “Stop motion animation done on the wall inbetween the stores Itrip Iskip and Unit Concepts in Braddon ACT.”
• Blender Defender
  “Have a cat that won't stay off your counters? I do. I finally got fed up with it enough to do something about it: scare the crap out of him with a motion-detecting blender (while recording the results for my own amusement, of course).”
• Surf photo I like
  “Surfer magazine "cameraboard" shot of Gerry Lopez from 1976.”
• A Truly Frightening Prospect
  “Excellent activist artwork for all you American readers.”
• Is It Over Yet?
  “Almost”
• Jason Fried of 37Signals on Business, Focus, and Avoiding Interruption – O’Reilly Broadcast
  “To watch when I have some time.”
• PalinAsPresident.com
  “Funny stuff.”
• CR Blog » Blog Archive » Keane on Korean Art
  “3D done the old fashioned way.”
• Sarah Palin Spin Command
  “Defend Sarah against the Liberal Media Elite. Spin their attacks and save her "bridge to nowhere".”
• Youtube, now in Super HD!
  “Funny”
• Patagonia’s Tin Shed
  “Nice little minisite”

Some links for October 3rd through October 9th…

• The eyeballing game
  “Excellent nerd game”
• Toyota RV-2 Mini RV – Retro Thing
  “The Toyota RV-2 prototype was unveiled at the 1972 Tokyo Motor Show. This bizarre 4-person camperwagon concept car was built around a Corona Mark II chassis and drivetrain. It seems that Toyota was attempting to capitalize on the popularity of the VW camper bus, but with a vehicle small enough to fit in a standard garage and practical enough to serve as everyday transport.”
• The secrets of ‘Survivor’ answered
  “At last! The secrets of ‘Survivor’ answered — Is show real? Can they bring tampons? Why so many models and actors?”
• DIBURROS: SMURFS WARS – Full Story
  “Between the years 2000 and 2001 I had an idea for a Graphic Novel about the SMURFS ®. As always, I didn't even start a script, just did some sketches for the heck of it. Other day I discovered that the small sky blue creatures complete 50 years in 2008 and decided to put this plot here, which as many others ideas, could one day turn into something… …or maybe not.”
• Naomi Wolf: The Battle Plan II: Sarah “Evita” Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State
  “Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.”
• YouTube – “Inspiration…” Part Two
  “2nd part…”
• Flickr: Panda
  “Excellent”
• Soft Drink Can Generator
  “Soda. Pop. Coke. Whatever you choose to call it, welcome to the Soft Drink Can Generator. Enter some text, choose an emblem, pick your colors and patterns, and click the 'Go' button. An soft drink can will be generated for you. Collect 'em, trade 'em, put 'em on your website, or e-mail 'em to your friends.”

Some links for September 17th through October 1st…

• Muxtape – The creator talks about behind the scenes with the music industry and the RIAA
  “"I love music. I believe that for people who love music, the desire to share it is innate and crucial for music itself. When we find a song we love, we beckon our friends over to the turntable, we loan them the CD, we turn up the car stereo, we put it on a mixtape. We do this because music makes us feel and we want someone else to feel it, too."”
• ‘Second Lives’ at the Museum of Arts and Design – The New York Times > Arts > Slide Show > Slide 3 of 9
  “"Sound Wave" (2007) by Jean Shin, center.”
• Fictional Sarah Palin Quotes Generator
  “"I see the United States as being a force for there has got to be action and we've got to keep an eye on Russia."
  — Sarah Palin Fictional Quote Generator v1.0”
• TiVo hobbled by TV providers’ HD monopoly
  “TiVo Inc. is having trouble cracking the Canadian PVR market because of the monopoly on high-definition television recorders held by Canadian providers.”
• ASCII Dwight
  “Excellent ASCII”
• Tetris Tiles
  “Inspired by the world’s most popular game, comes the world’s most popular tiles.

  No longer do you have to suffer looking at bathroom walls with no character.
  No longer do you have to hear the words Terracotta or Slate.
  No longer do you have to accept just one colour.

  Tetris Tiles puts the fun back into tiling. Ideal for use in Kitchens, Bathrooms, Bedrooms – any place that is worthy of colour and fun.”

• EFF sues Cheney, Bush, and the NSA to stop illegal wiretapping – Boing Boing
  “The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed suit against the NSA, President Bush and Vice President Cheney on behalf of AT&T's customers to fight illegal wiretappin”
• Blank Theme available through MagentoConnect – Open Source eCommerce Evolved
  “Great starting point”
• Sir Ben Kingsley STOMPS into the shoes of Minor Threats’ Ian MacKaye on Vimeo
  “"Sir Ben Kingsley: Oscar-winner. Knight of the realm. Sexy beast. Stars for MEAN…in a tribute to our hardcore heroes, Minor Threat."”

Some links for September 9th through September 17th…

• Alex Payne: al3x’s Rules for Computing Happiness
  “Well done”
• Typography for Lawyers
  “Hah — along the lines of "stop stealing sheep"”
• Orbicule | Undercover
  “Chance to recover your mac if stolen.”
• Adam Kimmel presents: Claremont HD on Vimeo
  “Crazy and Hi-res”
• Sea Surboards :: Boards :: Alive & Kicking
  “Holy fracking drool worthy. Some of the most beautiful design/glass jobs I've ever seen.”
• Genius Feature Coming to Older iPod Classics – Mac Rumors
  “Great news for people like me”
• Apartment Therapy New York | House Tour: Bill and Maria’s Cat PlaygroundNew York
  “Wilson would love us forever and ever.”
• Dedicated Servers Hosting, Web Hosting and Colocation from iWeb
  “Montreal quality webhosting”
• YouTube – Stevie Wonder – Superstition live on Sesame Street
  “"It doesn't get much better than this…. I can't imagine a better feel good song than this one! " I love the little kid waving his head.”