HTML5 Watch
"Collecting examples of creative, innovative, and unexpected use of emerging web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3."
may 2010
Torchlight Armory
Detailed files on all the armor, items, and monsters from the game Torchlight.
may 2010
Rag’n’Râle: Save Safari’s tabs to Pinboard
A script for Safari and Pinboard - glad to have helped!
may 2010
A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping
E-book guide to open source statistical mapping.
april 2010
Review: indiemapper makes thematic mapping easy
Third-party look at Indiemapper. I agree with the caveat about data types - attribute joining (matching tabular data to generic map geometry) will be a valuable addition.
april 2010
Indiemapper is here | Cartogrammar
Indiemapper is good. Go check it out. Looking forward to more attribute editing and joining abilities.
april 2010
Hand-drawn maps from firefighters, club-hoppers, Boy Scout dads, grandmothers, and Alexander Calder. - By Julia Turner - Slate Magazine
I love hand-drawn maps, and would much rather make one than be content to give someone an address to plug in to their dashboard GPS. I love to examine hand-drawn maps created by others, too - it's an intimate look at how they understand the spaces they inhabit. (Via Boing Boing.)
april 2010
AussieCon4 :: Hugo Awards
2010 Hugo Award Nominees (including StarShipSofa for Best Fanzine!)
april 2010
lines and colors » Alexa Meade
Nifty mixed-media art. Painted sculptures; the whole scene looks like a painting in photographs.
march 2010
Hub Magazine | Free Weekly Sci-Fi, Horror and Fantasy Fiction
Each week it looks like Hub publishes a piece of fiction and a feature article or two (interview, review, etc.).
march 2010
Mirrorshards
A 100-word story every day. Discovered via the Drabblecast, which featured a great reading of 2/1/2009's "The Stone Who Loved."
march 2010
Strange Horizons, a weekly speculative fiction magazine
New articles, reviews, fiction, and poetry each week.
march 2010
Cargo Bicycles + Useful Accessories for Every Day Adventure! | Xtracycle, Inc.
Cargo bikes and cargo bike conversion kits for regular bikes (bolt-in frame extension).
march 2010
Styling for Print « WordPress Codex
A print media stylesheet can make your web site's content that much more appealing and accessible when printed on paper.
march 2010
The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations : NPR
Interesting photos; interesting jobs. What modern-day jobs will one day be obsolete?
march 2010
Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / In Praise of Audio Fiction
"The written word and the spoken word are not competitors; they’re allies." Interesting and valid point about the deep roots of spoken storytelling. The written word has unique advantages, but this is food for thought.
march 2010
Writing Microcopy « Bokardo – Social Design by Joshua Porter
The value of small bits of explanatory text. (Via the previously-bookmarked "52 Weeks of UX".)
february 2010
Toms Cargo Bikes
I like these kind of rides. Some day, when I have a stable of bicycles, I'd like a cargo bike.
february 2010
Eulogy and Dissection.
"The heart, for example. A muscle that beat nonstop every second of every day since 1920, almost a century’s relentless rearguard against entropy itself. Three billion beats in that time; four supertankers filled to the brim; two battleships lifted clear of the ocean." Wow. A stirring statistic in an uneasy eulogy.
february 2010
HTTP Client - Mac Developer Tool for HTTP Debugging
Handy tool for carefully crafting HTTP requests and examining HTTP responses.
february 2010
Dropbox - Home - Online backup, file sync and sharing made easy.
Free off-site backup and cross-platform syncing up to 2GB (plus 250MB for completing 5 of 6 "Getting Started" tour items). Seems pretty slick.
february 2010
Riding in a head wind
"Are there any secrets to dealing with a headwind? A good attitude is probably the best. You can't do anything about it till the road turns, so welcome the wind as an aid to becoming a better rider."
february 2010
Doubts Raised on Book’s Tale of Atom Bomb - NYTimes.com
I don't think Little Boy was a dud.
february 2010
Free advice: show up early
"If you plan to arrive early, then you are covered when circumstances beyond your control conspire to make you late." Good advice.
february 2010
The Setup
Good nerdy fun. What sort of hardware and software do classy internet people use?
february 2010
delicious/help/api
Documentation for the basic Delicious API. The Pinboard API is essentially the same.
february 2010
Why I'm dropping Google | Web Services | MacUser | Macworld
I am not quite as repulsed as McElhearn, but recently I, too, have soured to the pervasive convenience of the Goog.
february 2010
Variant Frequencies
"Variant Frequencies is a podcast that stretches the entire bandwidth of genre fiction, modulated by a constant element of the fantastic. Every month we give you a new story."
february 2010
StarShipSofa | The Audio Science Fiction Magazine
The premier SF community podcast. Tony is a great and friendly host. Good stories. A 2010 Hugo Award contender for best fanzine!
february 2010
The Drabblecast
Weird stories by weird authors for weird listeners. Perhaps my favorite fiction podcast. Plus, "Drabblecast" is fun to say.
february 2010
52 Weeks of UX
Excellent series on well-crafted "User Experiences". Oriented towards software, but it looks like there are some applicable lessons here for all makers and communicators.
february 2010
waffle → People, Dear Reader
Continuing commentary on the design of computers for the common man. Also, I agree with the "computer guy" gripe. That lumps an awful lot of expertise into one vague fix-my-printer weenie category.
february 2010
Keeping an eye on repression | Iranian.com
GeoEye provides context for political events in Iran with well-timed IKONOS imagery.
february 2010
Bbardles (Drabblecast comedy songs by Norm Sherman)
The Drabblecast is fast becoming one of my very favorite podcasts. Host Norm Sherman writes story-related songs for money, and they are hilarious. This is my kind of music.
february 2010
venomous porridge - A conversation I have every month or so
A dialogue on the conflict between Flash and usable web standards. Of course, the irony here is that if you're armed with an iPhone, you might as well just call the damn place. But I guess that would be too old fashioned.
february 2010
The One-Thousand: A Hugo For StarShipSofa
I support the burgeoning campaign to nominate the StarShipSofa podcast for a Hugo award. (It looks like the "fanzine" category is most likely.)
february 2010
The newest imagery is sometimes "historical"
Google Earth users take note: the imagery you see by default isn't necessarily the newest, but the highest quality.
february 2010
Tough Guy Challenge 2010 - The Big Picture - Boston.com
A foot race involving mud, ice, fire, and barbed wire. Awesome.
february 2010
‘Facebook Login’
An article about the Facebook login page is confused for the actual Facebook login page by people who rely on search engines for navigation. The lesson is that simplicity and clarity cannot be overrated. Also, that some people have next to no reading comprehension abilities.
february 2010
Safari, NetNewsWire, Yojimbo, and Pinboard – anoved.net
My article on the scripts I've set up to manage bookmarks between my browser, my newsreader, Yojimbo, and Pinboard.
february 2010
The Joe Bike « Joe Bike: Utility Cycles for Portland, Oregon
There's something about cargo bikes that really appeals to me.
february 2010
Shimano Alfine 11-speed
Upcoming 11-speed internally geared hub. Someday I think I'll put together a purpose-built commuter bike, and an internally-geared hub like this seems like the way to go.
february 2010
Review: Bontrager Interchange Urban Commuter Panniers
Thorough review of some big swanky panniers. Panniers changed my bike-riding life for the better.
february 2010
AppleScript: Essential Sub-Routines (Text Encoding & Decoding)
Source from which I obtained the URL encoding routines for my Yojimbo-to-Pinboard script.
february 2010
FutureMac: Improved NetNewsWire to del.icio.us AppleScript
Source from which I derived the curl command for my Yojimbo-to-Pinboard script.
february 2010
rentzsch.com: Automator "Run Web Service" Parameters
You can use AppleScript to specify the parameters for a SOAP web service request in Automator.
february 2010
Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | Video on TED.com
Bing mapping demo with automatic image and live video registration at street level (via YH)
february 2010
Map Projections: Pseudoconic Projections
More cordiform (heart-shaped) and other novelty projections.
february 2010
Cartogrammar.com | Blog » Obligatory Valentine’s Day map
Cordiform projection of the globe.
february 2010