Freelancing Gods 2008

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10 May 2008

Link: WorldChanging: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

"But media is actually a triathlon, it 's three different events. People like to consume, but they also like to produce, and they like to share."

28 Apr 2008

Link: Chris Shiflett: URLs Can Be Beautiful

"Instead of thinking purely in hierarchies, I wanted to also make the URLs powerful statements that stand on their own."

28 Apr 2008

Link: hatom - Microformats

blog post microformat - need to keep this in mind when retweaking my blog

06 Apr 2008

Link: 24 ways: Back To The Future of Print

05 Apr 2008

Link: Edge: BETTER THAN FREE By Kevin Kelly

"In the digital arena, generative qualities add value to free copies, and therefore are something that can be sold."

31 Mar 2008

Link: Animated in-progress indicator for long running pages - Stillnet Studios

not the cleanest code, but a good starting point

15 Jan 2008

Link: With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian

Sounds a bit conspiracy-ish, but still, just another reason or two to steer clear of facebook.

01 Jan 2008

Link: Trading for their own account

"Everyone applauds when Google goes after Microsoft's Office monopoly, seeing it simply as "turnabout's fair play," but when they start to go after web non-profits like Wikipedia, you see where the ineluctible logic leads."

12 Dec 2007

Link: Wufoo · HTML Form Template & CSS Design Gallery

Collection of form designs

10 Dec 2007

Link: Airbag - Fail.

"Here's an idea: make fantastic products and services and stop trying to control the citizen voice. It only comes back to haunt you. Always has, always will."

18 Sep 2007

Link: Dash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Useful ref for when I've forgotten which dash should be used where.

20 Aug 2007

Link: Start faxing by email. TRY IT FREE

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18 Aug 2007

Link: reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books

17 Aug 2007

Link: Syncotype Your Baselines — RobGoodlatte.com

28 Jul 2007

Link: Common fonts to all versions of Windows

07 Jul 2007

Link: css-redundancy-checker - Google Code

07 May 2007

Link: Beware of the Dog | JoeDog / Siege

02 May 2007

Link: A Special Offer: TextDrive, Strongspace and Joyent

Mixed Grill account setup (so I don't forget what my account details are)

29 Mar 2007

Link: Unicode UTF-8 Encoding - HTML Resource

24 Feb 2007

Link: scRUBYt! - a Simple to Learn and Use, yet Powerful Web Scraping Toolkit Written in Ruby

23 Feb 2007

Link: YouTube - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

01 Feb 2007

Link: gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": the end-user manifesto

15 Dec 2006

Link: Using an object Element instead of an iframe

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12 Dec 2006

Link: 24 ways: Compose to a Vertical Rhythm

22 Nov 2006

Link: kuler

21 Nov 2006

Link: acts_as_classifiable in Ruby on Rails

16 Nov 2006

Link: Sweetie | Free icon set

16 Nov 2006

Link: The ultimate webdesign usability checklist at Not Usable

Extensive list of things that should be done for every website!

14 Nov 2006

Link: A List Apart: Articles: Super-Easy Blendy Backgrounds

super easy gradients without too much time spent in photoshop/fireworks/gimp

09 Nov 2006

Link: aspneticons.com -- free icons for ASP.NET web applications

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