Recent Links › November 2007
- Zeldman Speaks: Understanding Web Design
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“Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.” #
- Career Day
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Why Dilbert shouldn’t be an inspiration to the school kids. #
- The best unedited fight sequence ever
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One camera, almost three minutes of unedited martials arts action. #
- How We Met (video)
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A love story, with stick figures and creative visual storytelling, using stop–motion video, on a Samsung mobile phone. Awesome! #
- Don’t Throw Out Your Broken iPod; Fix It via the Web
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The paper shim hack works, I just saved a dead iPod! #
- Devices Enforce Silence of Cellphones, Illegally
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Local moviehouses should have this, since most mobile phone users choose to be impolite anyway. #
- How Microblogging Can Help You
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Indulge your attention–deficient side and be a better writer at the same time. Seriously. #
- You really wanna know what love is? (video)
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Got this from mic. So is this what love really is?
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- Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don’t Want to Work at Writing
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I like this tip: “Read people who write well.” #
- UP Naming Mahal
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Almost everything you’d want to know about UP’s hymn, “UP Naming Mahal.” #
- Google Now in Vaporware Business?
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“First Google announced Open Social, which is going to solve all the problems you didn’t know you had with social networking sites, and now they’ve announced the Open Handset Alliance, which is going to solve all the problems you didn’t know you had with your cellphone.” #
- Here’s a LifeHack: Stop Reading LifeHacks
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Not reading lifehacks saves you dozens of minutes a day, more than a thousand a year. Think of this: the time you save using a lifehack probably is a lot less than what you used to learn that hack. Get back to work. #
- How to tell if a web page sucks
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Do you have the real deal? #
- Passive Voice Is Redeemed For Web Headings
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“Active voice is best for most Web content, but using passive voice can let you front-load important keywords in headings, blurbs, and lead sentences. This enhances scannability and thus SEO effectiveness.” #
- How to Build Decent Productivity Software
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Without context, everything else is just as good as a text file on Notepad. #
- The 15 Dumbest Apple Predictions Of All Time
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With most of these pronouncements, who would’ve thought they’d still be kicking in 2007? #
- What’s with the 3Gb memory barrier?
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There’s no sense running with more than 3GB of RAM on your 32–bit operating system. #
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