Author: Snapping Links

“the flow “will continue for many months and possibly years”.” — !!!!!!

(tags: science weird society)

just for possible future reference

(tags: javascripty .net)

picture by Elizabeth taken around the corner from the house where I grew up. dig the sparkle.

(tags: photography personal californication)

“This is more likely to impact on most of the people in this country than issues of DRM and IP litigation.” — ooof…I really feel for Shelley on this one! (If anybody out there knows a good contract lawyer, let her know!)

(tags: politics society money blogosphere)

“Perhaps we’ll find that object-oriented development is really an outgrowth of a bias toward the spatial over the verbal” — I don’t know about the particulars of one language over the other, but this brings up a question in my mind about my problems wrap

(tags: web_dev misc_tech gender academia)

so far, this is freaking awesome.

(tags: society gender misc_tech)

I wish I’d seen this *before* I started my new job…..

(tags: work psychology productivity)

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could come in handy one of these days….

(tags: php reference)

Banewreaker was *awesome* and C is reading Elantris right now. Some other things in here that look interesting….

(tags: writing to-read personal css web_dev)

for future reference.

(tags: google seo)

“Our advice? Lay in some extra coffee and donuts [….]” — the one consolation to *not* going to SXSW: I don’t know how well I’d handle switching to DST at the same time as dealing with jet lag. 😐

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…processing…

(tags: to-read to-do php web_dev metablog microformat reference)

I think it’s for cleaning up input in forms…which is pretty useful. Need to take another look *soon*!

(tags: security php to-read)

fork of WP? or something.

(tags: blogosphere php)

something a little more complicated than my usual “back-of-the-napkin” style sketching.

(tags: web_dev)

these aren’t quite my five, but they’re worth noting.

(tags: css reference)

mentioned in the previous. this is a pretty good compilation of useful advanced techniques, actually. CSS tabs & Nifty Corners have been critical for me.

(tags: css reference)

should probably compare the results of this to the results from the other optimizer. also, could we PLEASE get a different name?!

(tags: css reference)

“An Informal Tool For Early Stage Web Site and UI Design” — very trippy. I might give it a whirl, though…although it seems like it would make more sense with a tablet PC or a wacom. (sigh…I had a wacom once, two jobs ago….)

(tags: web_dev design to-install weird academia)

someday I’ll have time for this sort of thing again….

(tags: business reference web_dev to-read)

interesting comparative data on the particularity of search terms.

(tags: seo)

fascinating. I just put the book on hold.

(tags: society psychology business marketing)

not my current one (obviously!) but some things to think about in re: the past.

(tags: psychology work)

totally applicable beyond the world of higher education web design.

(tags: academia web_dev usability)

so very pretty

(tags: photography pretty)

when I was in college, the last phase of sensemaking came from taking a really long shower or a really long walk.

(tags: psychology academia productivity)

“we all just make the particular compromises that make the most sense to us” — that’s the real takeaway.

(tags: browsers web_dev)

I keep forgetting the name of this one!

(tags: productivity business)

damn useful. (regular expressions make my brain hurt.)

(tags: web_dev reference)

(tags: home ipod mediahub to-do)

plus, as usual, good tips in the comments.

(tags: mediahub to-read)

for home to-do lists?

(tags: personal productivity checkback)

very cool weirdness. to explore later.

(tags: photography weird gis checkback web_dev)

oh, how depressing. our library is using this service, I think.

(tags: writing arts local olympia politics misc_tech)

partially just to remind myself that I need to call Mac support.

(tags: mac)

another reminder of things I need to do….

(tags: car)

nothing earth-shattering (I need to find a way to notify people when I don’t want to be disturbed) but good reminders

(tags: productivity work psychology personal writing)

good suggestions from Keith.

(tags: web_dev design)

lots of good stuff here

(tags: mda to-read)

Have never read Illuminatus, etc., but his books managed to have a sideways influence on my life anyhow. (K, I’m looking at you.) Tangentially, the “Peter” in his post was a tutor/instructor at Pierce who died tragically a couple of years ago. One of m

(tags: weird arts personal)

read through this later, and consider what I’d want myself.

(tags: writing to-read misc_tech)

might come in handy on something I’m thinking through

(tags: php to-read checkback)

lots of future research

(tags: seo web_dev to-read)

“using CSS to style form controls to look exactly the same across browsers and platforms is impossible” — with screenshots!

(tags: css browsers weird)

“I’ll use the

element to mark up an unordered list, because that’s what it’s for” — a personal integrity approach to web design.

(tags: accessibility standards philosophizing)

on usability & accessibility.

(tags: accessibility usability web_dev reference)

very concise explanation of a conceptually challenging topic.

(tags: web_dev reference)

whoa. holding myself back from ordering a copy right. this. minute. 😉

(tags: javascripty to-buy)

sounds really nice.

(tags: home to-buy)

pretty basic stuff, but a good reminder. now that I’m back in cube-land, I live by my headphones.

(tags: arts productivity)

I’m using GTDTiddlyWiki at work with great success, but then, I suppose it helps that I started from essentially a blank slate. Getting something that works at home is turning out to be exponentially more complicated.

(tags: productivity)

fascinating.

(tags: food weird science)

I want one.

(tags: history arts home to-buy)