January 2008
This Week’s Links on Ma.gnolia →
Some stuff I’m reading this week…
Songbird Illustration Compendium | Songbirdnest.com
Awesome compendium of images for Songbird. Designer Jonathan Koshi rocks.
Why Twitter may lead to world peace | BostonNOW
The Little Prince encounters a fox and asks the fox to play with him. The fox replies that he can’t play with the Little Prince because he isn’t tamed. He explains that “taming” means...
Ron Paul →
101 CSS Techniques Of All Time- Part 1 →
CSS has fundamentally changed web design, it has provided designers with a set of properties that can be tweaked to make various techniques to make your pages just look right.
Today we are presenting a round-up of 101 CSS techniques designers use all the time. Definitely worth taking a very close look at! This is just the first series , the second part will be coming soon, stay tuned and Enjoy!...
Hex Color Picker →
Web designers and programmers who need to specify colors must use a special code. This code can amazingly in this day and age not be found directly within the Mac OS X color panel. What do you have to do to get it? Launch Photoshop for the sole purpose of getting a six digit number? Calculate it for yourself with Calculator’s hexadecimal mode, TextEdit and some patience? We tried that once,...
Christian author has problem with conservatives -... →
Donald Miller still loves God and Jesus. Don’t misunderstand him. Five years after he wrote “Blue Like Jazz,” Donald Miller’s book on Christianity becomes a hit. His problem is with Christianity, at least how it’s often practiced. “It’s a dangerous term so I try to avoid it,” said Miller, who considered giving up his career as a Christian writer and...
Superstarch, Wausau, WI : reviews →
Hey - what a great web design company! They also do Search Engine Optimization - where better to find Wausau Web Design or SEO? Saved By: Marcus Nelson | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: SEO, Wausau, webdesign, graphic design, logo, print, web, wordpress, drupal
Car(e)Free Living and TransitCampBayArea →
While driving up to Sonoma the other day in my lovely Zipcar (this time I picked a Mazda 3 for the iPod jack, but next time, I’m taking the Mini Cooper), I wondered to myself why anyone in close proximity to Zipcars, public transit and other great transportation alternatives would even WANT to own a car. I remember owning a car and all of the freedom it ostensibly gave me. I could come and go as...
What I’m Reading Today… →
How Email Brings You Closer to the Guy in the Next Cubicle
Email Missing From Cheney’s Office
Oh No, Mr. Bill… Falls Asleep?
Next-gen Apple MacBook Pros to gain multi-touch trackpad
Wausau Montessori Charter School →
As the proud parent of two Montessori students within the Wausau School District Charter School, I decided to attend a parent’s meeting or two - just to stay in touch with what my children were up.
Well, before you knew it - they needed a website to keep everyone informed. And just who do we know that could help us out with designing a website? Hmm… I had to think.
The site is a work in...
This Week’s Links on Ma.gnolia →
Some stuff I’m reading this week…
Giving Twitter another look… - The Viral Garden
This experience has hammered home this point for me about social media: it works best when you view it as a way to create value, not as a tool to extract value. When I didn’t ‘get’ Twitter before, it was because I was trying to extract value from it, without really providing any.
New player (Yahoo! Developer...
The Right Tool for the Right Job →
[cross-posted from OpenMediaWeb.org]
One of the core messages that came out of the Media Web Meetup III: the Producers was this:
Copyright laws, DMCA, etc. were tools that were instituted to help large organizations protect themselves from large organizations, it did not imagine the negotiations of individual producers in the Open Media Web. Instead of bringing the massive amount of baggage...
Sawse - Stir it Up! » Blog Archive » Some of... →
Some of the Best CSS Resources on the Web
Design professionals once ignored CSS, chalking it up to nothing more than a fad that would eventually fade into the background. Over time, its ease of use and wealth of design applications have made it the new favorite of media designers everywhere. If you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for? Here we take a look at six of the...
Design Police | Bring bad design to justice. →
Bring bad design to justice. Saved By: Marcus Nelson | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: design, funny
Articulating the Wisconsin Idea →
[submitted by Eric Sorensen] From iTunes U, which lets students take educational podcasts on the road; to the computational tools running on Xserves, which allow students to see and explore the structure, function, and behavior of molecules; to the Digital Academic Television Network, which delivers live TV via a network connection using QuickTime as a […]
Today is MacWorld →
This is the time of year where Apple nutcases go berserk - present company not excluded, but this particular year there seems to be a little extra excitement on the web. Part of that is due to Apple’s marketing spin of placing banners and billboards all over San Francisco saying, “There’s Something In […]
Transitions →
So, on New Years Eve, a bunch of us picked a ‘Themeword’ (credit for the idea goes to Erica Douglas) and mine was pretty clearly: TRANSITION. I saw 2008 as a year of wrapping up things in progress (or things I needed to finally take care of) and moving onto my next phase in life (whatever that may be). It just popped into my head and there it was.
The morning brought the first transition. This...
Happy to Launch - belowthewaist.org →
This project has been in the works for some time. Family Planning Health Services of Wausau approached me with an idea to build a website. Their main goal was to network with like minded organizations and individuals in a way that would illicit dialogue and pass along information.
Additionally, the site would serve as a home to a brand new podcast aimed at informing their target audience.It’s all...
IcoMaker for Mac OS X →
IcoMaker can display and can make icon files with suffix “ico”, which are used mainly on Windows.
IcoMaker is not a “Bitmap Editor”. IcoMaker makes an ICO file assembling small images which are made by other tools.
IcoMaker can make small icons attached to Web pages, so-called “favicon.ico”. Saved By: Marcus Nelson | View Details | Give Thanks Tags:...
Parkbench Chat About Web Standards and... →
While at Bay Area Drupal Camp, web developer and accessibility advocate William Lawrence sits down to talk about ensuring all people can use your website. With Raincity Radio host Dave O, William discusses assistive browsing devices, SEO benefits of semantic code, Section 508 compliance for accessibility to public resources, plus applying business best practices and tips galore. Plus some chatter...
Futzing as the Future of Work →
we wander so much by Svanes on Flickr
The other day, famous San Diego Fire twitterer and all around good guy, Nate Ritter, worked the day at Citizen Space. We got into this great conversation about the worth of useless knowledge, which reminded me of some research that I ran into a while back on Information/Knowledge Brokers
From the abstract:
Opinion and behavior are more homogeneous within...
The Human Body Teaches Us To Embrace the Chaos →
I’ve been working out for nearly three months now, all the while watching what I eat a little more carefully and staying committed to a pretty regular and fairly vigorous workout: 25 minutes on the elliptical trainer, 25 minutes on the treadmill (briskly walking for 5 minutes, jogging for 15 minutes, then cooling down for 5 minutes), a 10-minute ab workout (mostly from pilates class) and some...
Design a Logo - The Ultimate Guide at You the... →
Logo design is arguably one of the most important and valued areas of design. A quality logo design combined with the branding of an organization or company can become one of the most powerful forces in today’s society. If you love logo design as much as I do, then I am sure you will enjoy these logo design tips and resources. Saved By: Marcus Nelson | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: logo...
Face value | The accidental innovator |... →
The accidental innovator - Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger and Twitter, epitomises Silicon Valley’s right brain Saved By: Marcus Nelson | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: evan williams, twitter, obvious, innovator, economist.com
Will Apple Rollout WiMax This Week? →
Sources are suggesting that Apple may include WiMax, the high-speed, long-range wireless broadband technology, in an ultraportable 13″ notebook computer, and possibly across the entire MacBook Pro line. Just part of the rumor mill flying in preparation for Steve Jobs’s Macworld keynote next week in San Francisco, of course, but our source gives it a […]
