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links for 2007-03-21

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 21, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• why twitter matters
  A great explanation that I haven’t been able to capture myself in describing twitter to others.
  (tags: social trends mobile)
• FontShop: Products – The FontBook
  This is what I want for my birthday! If my loved ones go together and pitched in for it, I’d be eternally grateful. Seriously, I don’t want a pony, I only want this.
  (tags: fonts reference shopping webdesign wishlist)

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links for 2007-03-20

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 20, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Fuck Garrison Keillor | The Stranger’s Blog
  Dan Savage has a lot of good stuff to say about Kellior’s recent weird screen on gay parents.
  (tags: homophobia children family marriage)
• “KatWALLk of Fame”
  Reading a recommendation of using these to sort out cat hostilities in a household.
  (tags: cats furniture home)
• Recall of Canned and Foil Pouch `Wet’ Cat and Dog Food
  Affecting Iams and Eukanuba products..
  (tags: cats dogs health)
• Obama, Bama, Bo-Bama, Banana Fana Fo Fama T-shirt
  That’s so not funny. Now I’ll have that stuck in my head the rest of the day.
  (tags: shirts politics funny)
• SXSW Geek T-Shirts – a photoset on Flickr
  Sadly, they didn’t include my “I Am The Kwisatz Haderach” shirt in their collection. Darn.
  (tags: geek sxsw shirts clothes)
• Bokardo – Social Web Design » Five Principles to Design By
  (tags: ideas inspiration webdesign)
• Bokardo – Social Web Design » Domain as Identity?
  (tags: identity)
• Bokardo – Social Web Design » A Messaging Proxy and Domain as Identity
  (tags: trends identity)
• OpenID, Portable Social Networks and the Darowski Problem at Like It Matters
  (tags: identity microformats research)

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links for 2007-03-19

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 19, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• here’s your gravy: A little more Maxine
  Even more mini-Maxine for me to cut out and play with. Yay!!
  (tags: papercraft)
• Rude Mechanical Orchestra
  A New York radical marching band that attends protest rallies for progressive social causes.
  (tags: protest subversive newyork cool)
• Peoplehood: An All-City Parade and Pageant by Spiral Q Puppet Theater
  Peoplehood: An All-City Parade and Pageant, our annual grand parade and pageant, brings together, through workshops in communities, more than 3000 people, in six delegations from throughout the city, to celebrate community, diversity and the challenges a
  (tags: community publicGames art progressive)
• SXSW: The Figures Behind The Top Web Apps
  (tags: webdev sxsw sxswi development)
• DropSend | Email large files easily and securely
  (tags: productivity tools technology)

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links for 2007-03-18

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 18, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• The Vine: ‘Veronica’ toys with time warp
  I don’t care which storyline they go with – but they better keep the Veronica Mars on the air, or I’ll be really pissy.
  (tags: news television)
• subk.net – maps
  A collection of hand-drawn personal maps.
  (tags: maps memory drawing cartography)
• Samples of Students’ Maps
  Amazing hand-drawn maps by elementary students
  (tags: maps drawing cartography)
• Fool’s World Map | Fool’s USA Map
  (tags: satire maps cartography funny)
• The Geek Heirarchy
  (tags: visualization funny geek)
• Civil War Posters – a photoset on Flickr
  (tags: typography design)
• Soviet Children’s Books – a photoset on Flickr
  (tags: books design flickr inspiration)
• pantufla’s photosets on Flickr
  (tags: design illustration inspiration flickr)
• Typography of the Electric Company – a photoset on Flickr
  (tags: design typography flickr)
• Bruce Sterling gives blogs 10 years to live | The Register
  I missed this panel at SXSW – I know at least I’ll be around in 10 years. Hell, I’ve had this site for 13 already.
  (tags: blogs funny sxsw culture)
• Many Eyes
  “Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis.”
  (tags: communication complexity visualization interesting ideas)

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links for 2007-03-17

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 17, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• This Guy Can Get 59 MPG in a Plain Old Accord
  Hypermiler -a person who drives in an obsessive fashion in order to increase his vehicle’s fuel efficiency. He’s refined his driving technique to wring 59 MPG out of a Honda Accord and clocked over 180 MPG with a hybrid Honda Insight.
  (tags: green auto traffic technology)
• Preventing Image Bandwidth Theft With .htaccess (thesitewizard.com)
  (tags: tutorial webdev)
• Coding Horror: Reducing Your Website’s Bandwidth Usage
  (tags: webdev traffic bandwidth)
• here’s your gravy: A little Maxine, just for you.
  For me?! My very own Maxine Dangerous paper doll. AWESOME!
  (tags: papercraft cool)
• Video Too Much Beyonce?
  A little boy makes an awesome video of him lip syncing to Beyonce, and nut-job homophobes comment on it, saying evil things. This is why so many gay kids kill themselves.
  (tags: video homophobia)

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links for 2007-03-16

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 16, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Fact or Fiction?: Living People Outnumber the Dead
  Actually. over 106 billion people have lived on the planet – so plenty of room for you to have been reincarnated.
  (tags: population)
• What’s So Funny? Well, Maybe Nothing
  Turns out people laugh not because something is funny, but to get along.
  (tags: Sociology humor psychology)
• Marion County: MECA live
  Live real time map showing where police and fire unites are dispatched.
  (tags: maps crime Indianapolis)
• The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness
  The key to happiness. Does it exist? What if you could give such a gift to your children? Believe it or not, scientific research suggests you can.
  (tags: research psychology children)
• Michael Dirda – In search of Gilgamesh, the epic hero of ancient Babylonia. – washingtonpost.com
  The Loss and Rediscovery Of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
  (tags: literature culture)

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links for 2007-03-15

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 15, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Functioning Form – SxSW: Design Patterns
  Blog entry from one of the sxsw panelists, linking to other note takers from the panel
  (tags: design webdev)
• Functioning Form – Design Patterns: Introduction
  (tags: design patterns webdesign)

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links for 2007-03-14

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 14, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Fun With Words: Collective Nouns
  Trying to figure out what to call a group of bats.
  (tags: nouns language english writing)
• The Collective Noun Page
  There it is – a cloud of bats.
  (tags: language english writing nouns)
• The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  (tags: apple mac geek)
• Peachpit Commons
  (tags: design reference creative)
• Home: AIGA
  (tags: designCool designIdeas)
• Web Typography Sucks
  Slides and notes from SxSW 2007 – Boulton/Rutter presentation
  (tags: webdesign fonts typography design creativity)
• graphpaper.com – Come to my Classy SXSW Panel
  (tags: sxsw design)
• Solid Wall of Code: Weblog Defense Grid
  (tags: movableType)

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links for 2007-03-13

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 13, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• microformats
  (tags: microformats webstandards webdev)

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links for 2007-03-12

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 12, 2007
• Post category:Design/Recently Read/Technology

• Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke
  one of our authors.
  (tags: books webdev webstandards css sxswi)
• Soylent Green Stickers
  Download them and stick them on food at the grocery store.
  (tags: funny subversive)

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