Category Archives: links

links for 2008-07-10

Webpages as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet
View any web page as a “snowflake” of sorts, displaying tag hierarchies as well as types.
(tags: awesome css visualization graph web html design)

links for 2008-07-08

Pimp My Code, Part 15: The Greatest Bug of All
Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster relates perhaps the best bug-hunting story I’ve read in a while. This kind of thing is all too-familiar.
(tags: apple bugs business cocoa design development mac macosx software coredata programming nextstep debug)

links for 2008-07-05

Kobayashi T-Shirts
Want.
(tags: clothes kobayashi shirts awesome)

IE6 Independence?
Matt Mullenweg throws out some stats for wordpress.com; it’s clear they still have to support IE6. In regards to questions about the wisdom of 37signals, I wonder if their audience isn’t less IE-heavy in the first place.
(tags: internet wordpress ie web firefox opera safari)

links for 2008-07-04

Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008
Yay! It’s about time companies began eliminating the weak link in the browser chain.
(tags: ie microsoft web internet 37signals)

Rumor: More Rock Band 2 tracks listed
Testify.
(tags: rockband music game)

Features are a one-way street
First-hand experience tells me that this is extremely accurate. NEVER be [...]

links for 2008-07-03

Hacking WP Super Cache for Speed
A better set of mod-rewrite rules for WordPress MU.
(tags: caching plugin wordpress wordpress-mu wpmu mod-rewrite htaccess)

How Hard Could it Be?: Glory Days
“Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf… He still falls off the board again and again.” [...]

links for 2008-07-02

Rumor: Rock Band 2 partial setlist revealed on G4
Everlong? Ace of Spades? Give It Away? Sign me up. Rock Band 2 looks like it’s going to be what I want it to be… more of the same. I can’t wait until the E3 announcement gets out of the way so I know what’s in store.
(tags: [...]

links for 2008-06-29

Ledger
Sweet theme for Mint that’s black text on a white background using very simple shades for graphs.
(tags: design software mint theme statistics)

links for 2008-06-25

Do What You’re Great At
There’s room for everybody out there. Lots of Internet means lots of roles to play and niches to fill.
(tags: news strategy yahoo google business)

links for 2008-06-24

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Nifty little graphical utility for creating word “clouds” out of text you have entered or from your del.icio.us tag cloud.
(tags: art awesome visualization cloud design generator)

links for 2008-06-21

MDIs on the Mac
Thoughtful article on the (new?) proliferation of MDIs in Mac applications. I agree that it’s a bad thing for Mac usability in general.
(tags: design interface mac osx standards gui)

links for 2008-06-20

Man gets Windows Vista to work with printer
To borrow from Gruber: Yes, this is a real headline.
(tags: classic geek microsoft vista windows)

links for 2008-06-17

Friends don’t let Friends use TypePad
Comparison of two of the leading blog engines in terms of SEO and usability.
(tags: blogging internet movabletype wordpress typepad seo)

links for 2008-06-15

Video arcades’ last gasp
Chicago—one of the last strongholds—is falling.
(tags: business classic games arcade history nintendo xbox namco sega gameland)

links for 2008-06-13

“You have to treat your employees like customers”
Amen.
(tags: management software work southwest)

One pixel notched corners as used by Google Analytics
Neat-o and low-impact way to soften the look of boxes.
(tags: css design google howto html interface)

links for 2008-05-15

Bible Reference Tagger
Plugin for Web sites and for WordPress that helps add Libronix links to Scripture passages and marks them with an icon.
(tags: bibleref logos libronix scripture markup wordpress)

Sightseeing in Liberty City
Awesome flickr set with comparison photographs showing the ridiculously detailed nature of the renders in Grand Theft Auto 4 compared to the real New [...]

links for 2008-05-07

Boom Blox Wii Review
Nick Suttner of 1up reviews what might be the sleeper hit of the year on the Wii. This one has definitely moved up to my “must buy” list.
(tags: boomblox spielberg ea wii nintendo games)

NewsWare
Portal at MSNBC with some awesome “labs” style stuff to give you news in different ways. There’s some neat-o [...]

links for 2008-05-06

What’s Missing From Mainstream Reviews of Videogames? Oh, That’s Right–Gameplay
How difficult is it to relate the emergent parts of playing a game in a mainstream review? There are semantic and contextual choices that must be made when speaking to non-gamers.
(tags: games writing journalism gta4 gameplay)

links for 2008-05-05

BOC FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions about the Book of Concord
Paul McCain answers a whole host of questions on the Book of Concord. Many of these are great starting points for explaining the benefits of study of Concordia.
(tags: bookofconcord concordia cyberbrethren study lutheran)

links for 2008-05-03

The streets hit back: a review of Grand Theft Auto IV
A great review from Ars Technica, speaking to the attention lavished on the game (good and bad) and what makes the series - and this installment - so big.
(tags: games gta4 violence media review)

Are Macs a smart career move?
The Cult of Windows? And the honed [...]

links for 2008-04-29

Milliways: Infocom’s Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The game that barely almost happened. I feel that company hijinks saved a lot of people a lot of frustration here.
(tags: awesome business interactivefiction infocom history games restaurant scifi)

Pastoral Reflections on Bible Translations: Why We Preach from the English Standard Version
Great article from Mark Driscoll of [...]

links for 2008-04-28

Kids talk about Grand Theft Auto IV
John Davison interviews real teenagers to see what they are thinking and/or planning around the upcoming release of GTA IV.
(tags: games kids grandtheftauto xbox360)

links for 2008-04-19

Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes
I can quite fiercely respond to this by saying, “I don’t care.”
(tags: typography howto weird)

links for 2008-04-17

Rage Against the Machines: Gallery of Gadget Revenge
PC LOAD LETTER
(tags: hardware violence awesome photos)

Between Medieval And Folk, Two Mass Audiences
OK, so we’re not the only ones. But please take a look at the demographics information embedded in this story.
(tags: worship music catholic church mozart)

links for 2008-04-16

Blue Jeans Cable Strikes Back
Let’s just file this letter under the “oh, snap” category and move on, shall we? The last three paragraphs are *gold*.
(tags: audio awesome business legal litigation money copyright patent cables hardware ohsnap)

Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files
A little bookmarklet and associated Greasemonkey plugin for Firefox to give you access to the [...]

links for 2008-04-15

The Rather Difficult Font Game
How well do you know your fonts?
(tags: fonts typography game awesome)