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links for 2007-04-07

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Post published:April 7, 2007
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Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

(tags: sound software radio freeware)
About TypeIt4Me

(tags: apple freeware productivity software)
I love my new Mac (list of cool utilities from Twitter) « Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger

(tags: apple mac software productivity)
The Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School

Good stuff.

(tags: webdesign inspiration ideas)
New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual (1970) – a photoset on Flickr

Tons of good design ideas here on standardization, presentation, consistency.

(tags: visualization inspiration reference standards)
Cornershop – Rounded Graphics for CSS Box Corners

Hmmm. I’m not sure I buy that this works well, but I need to play with it before I can tell, and I don’t have time now.

(tags: webdesign buttons)
Stripe Generator – diagonal stripes background tiles

(tags: webdesign trends aesthetics freeware generator)
High dynamic range imaging – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(tags: photgraphy photoshop tutorial wikipedia)
Internet Access CAPTCHAs

And so, a modest proposal: Internet Access Captchas, built right into browsers, designed to greatly reduce the overabundance of youtube commenters, MySpacers, and bloggers.

(tags: funny grammar humor internet)

links for 2007-04-06

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Post published:April 6, 2007
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The VOCO Clock

Stephen Fry wakes you up in the morning.

(tags: gadget gifts wishlist clocks)
Brad Choate: SQL Plugin

I need to investigatte this further to see if it solves my category listing concerns.

(tags: movableType plugin)
Labs/The Coop – MozillaWiki

Mozilla is thinking about building social networking capabilities right into the browser. Awesome, but they need to recognize and use microformats.

(tags: plugins mozilla social community)
SonSpring | PNG Overlay

(tags: css webdesign images howto)
SPORE

(tags: videogames onlineGames fun)
Truly Awful Stuff

This is great – two guys who give each other really tacky, funny crap in an escalating battle of really awful kitsch.

(tags: funny culture)
New at Pentagram: Scenes From a Blog

visual diagram of the life-cycle of an online fight. Scarily accurate for most of the recent local arguments as well.

(tags: illustration blogging satire writing funny)

links for 2007-04-05

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Post published:April 5, 2007
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Overton window – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Political theory on the right-wing’s tendency to shift the political window to the right, so people thing moderate ideas are actually liberal.

(tags: marketing politics psychology theory)
Nikon | Universcale

Animation that shows the scale of landmark objects (the sphinx, the london eye, humans, whales, dinosaurs) in comparison to one another.

(tags: animation comparison visualization zeitgeist)
Netdisaster – Destroy the web!

plug in a URL, have a dino tromp over the page.

(tags: funny games tools technology)
kuler

color palettes

(tags: colors webdesign tools inspiration)
cutelittleblokes – personal caricatures

(tags: illustration avatar)

links for 2007-04-04

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Post published:April 4, 2007
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Gravatar – Globally Recognized Avatars

(tags: avatar networking resources)
glumbert.com – Supermarket 2.0

Hilarious geek video.

(tags: web2.0 geek video humor)
The Historic Old Northside

Our neighborhood’s website. It really needs a makeover.

(tags: Indianapolis Indiana historic neighborhood victorian)
Acme Prints – Home

(tags: business shirts print buttons hats)
Declutter Your Desk

Awesome way to attach stuff to the bottom of the desk where it’s out of the way.

(tags: furniture howto organization productivity)
President Benjamin Harrison Home

One of the museums in our neighborhood. Wow, does this site need a makeover.

(tags: history neighborhood Indianapolis)
P&G Pet Care Announces Voluntary Participation in Menu Foods’ Nationwide U.S

(tags: dogs food pets reference)
Iraq – More Gays Executed – UK Gay News

Death squads routinely execute gay people in Iraq. Careful clicking on the link; there are graphic photos of dead gay men shown on the news report.

(tags: war lgbt issues homphobia Iraq)
DAY of SILENCE : April 18, 2007

The Day of Silence is an annual event held to bring attention to anti-LGBT bullying, harassment and discrimination in schools. Students and teachers nationwide will observe the day in silence to echo the silence that LGBT and ally students face everyday.

(tags: education activism event lgbt)

links for 2007-04-03

Post author:HFM
Post published:April 3, 2007
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The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 285

(tags: idiots conservatives republicans)
The PetsitUSA.com Blog » Pet Foods NOT on recall list

A list of foods that are safe to feed your pets.

(tags: pets safety food)
Amity Observer – A complete list of recalled pet foods

The list of foods you should not feed your pets.

(tags: pets food safety)
mental_floss – April Fools’ Day – Tech Prank Roundup

All the good tech company pranks and jokes from yesterday.

(tags: funny pranks holidays)
Feminism Friday: Saying ‘No’ to Passivity at Pandagon

I’m still learning to get over this.

(tags: feminism sexism psychology)
One Indiana Square to Get Facelift After Storm | IndyStar.com

“The completed One Indiana Square will appear more vertical, introducing a new geometry to the Indianapolis skyline” – Um, isn’t the building vertical already? What?

(tags: Indianapolis downtown)
Pam’s House Blend :: What is the most anti-LGBT encounter/interaction you’ve ever had?

For those of you who aren’t aware of what gay people have to deal with regularly, this is an enlightening read.

(tags: homophobia violence lgbt)

links for 2007-04-01

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Post published:April 1, 2007
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Yeeaahh!

Khoi Vinh’s Grids are Good Site Design Prototype illustrating how grids are used in the design process.

(tags: grid webdesign sxsw ideas)
Radar: Instant Picture Conversations

Take a photo with your camera phone and and send it to a group of friends, rather than just one friend.

(tags: mobile photography social)
Hey – there’s a “mineart field” in Des Moines – DesMoinesRegister.com

Norwalk plays host to Cedar Rapids Xavier at 11 a.m. today at Mineart Field. Xavier beat the Warriors 3-1 in the Class 1-A final last season.

(tags: egoSurfing)
The Lion Sleeps Tonight – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interesting origins of the song – adaptation of an African folksong.

(tags: songs music wikipedia lyrics)
Kurt Vonnegut – 8 Rules For Writing Fiction

(tags: writing fiction books literature)
ModalBox — An easy way to create popups and wizards

(tags: programming ajax popup resources)

links for 2007-03-31

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Post published:March 31, 2007
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Jott.com – Mobile Note Taking and Hands-Free Messaging

You call the number, leave a message, and it transcribes you message and emails the message to you. Interesting… now I just need it to post a message to my blog for me.

(tags: communication tools)
School bus yellow – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The RGB and hex values for school bus yellow.

(tags: wikipedia colors reference)
When A Man Hates A Woman / The ugly side of sex and the Web

Great SF Gate article by Violet Blue on Kathy Sierra, Xeni Jardin and hate sites directed at them.

(tags: feminism sexism women blogging)
Larry Beinhart: Short Shots #2: Dispatches From the War on Stupidity

From that point of view, we see that among people who think, 72% are liberal and 15% conservative. Among elite thinkers, the portion of liberals goes up 87%.

(tags: conservatives progressive education ideas)

links for 2007-03-30

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Post published:March 30, 2007
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Finally, a Feminism 101 blog

An awesome resource from feminist bloggers on the basics of feminist thought – basic resources to link to when you’re having a discussion and you don’t have time to go into all the detail.

(tags: feminism sexism progressive women)
Exercise Is a State of Mind – Health For Life – MSNBC.com

Another study on how exercise improves brain functions.

(tags: psychology health fitness brain)

links for 2007-03-29

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Post published:March 29, 2007
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Teacher Lesson Plan – Suffragists and Their Tactics

Cool!

(tags: feminism equality rights)
::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon » The Unsinkable Kathy Sierra

(tags: blogs civility)

links for 2007-03-28

Post author:HFM
Post published:March 28, 2007
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Museumr > dumpr.net

hee. Frame a Flickr photo like it’s hung in a museum.

(tags: flickr funny gallery museums photography)
Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic – New York Times

“Multitasking is going to slow you down, increasing the chances of mistakes” – studies show multi-tasking doesn’t work, and actually costs more.

(tags: attention myth productivity science)
TripHub Group Travel – My Trip Map

Trip hub is a group travel site, and trip map is a way to map out all the locations on your trip. Just the other day I was saying I wish google or yahoo had these capabilities, so we could locate the hotel, and all the sites at our destination…

(tags: maps cartography travel planning)
ToonGum Free Flash Toons

A YouTube for cartoons.

(tags: cartoons funny flash community)
Park Seed

Seeds and plants for vegetable, flower, annual and perennial gardening.

(tags: plants shopping garden green)