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New Blog: Grow Buy Cook Eat
Anyone who knows me well knows that reading The Ominvore’s Dilemma had a fairly profound impact on me. I’ve taken to shopping pretty much exclusively at farmers’ markets and ranting to anyone who’ll listen about the wonders of local and sustainable food and the evils of the agro-industrial complex. I’ve decided to take that ranting [...]
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CBC Radio’s Ideas Bats One Out the Park
A great program all-round, Ideas, from CBC Radio, recently ran a two part round-table discussion on secularism in modern democracies that was just fantastic. A reasoned, in-depth, and principled discussion that steered clear of all the usual empty rhetoric on the topic. If you’ve got two hours of listening time at any point in the [...]
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Webby Award Winners for Design, Flashblock Edition
Last week the winners of the 2010 Webby awards were announced. Jennifer Farley, one of the staff bloggers at SitePoint (where I work), recently posted a breakdown of five of the winners in design-related categories, along with her impressions of the sites in question. I think that’s a great idea, so I’m going to write [...]
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Free Wireframe Kit for Google Drawings
I’m a big fan of Mockingbird for creating quick mockups and wireframes. It’s free, it’s online, and it does just about everything you want it to do. That said, a bit of choice never hurt anyone, so it’s interesting to see that Google Drawings, the recent addition to the Google Docs family, can be used [...]
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NUMMI | This American Life
Episode 403 of This American Life has a fascinating story about the US auto industry and how GM missed a golden opportunity to correct its course and save itself. There’s a lot of interesting business theory in there, but even if that’s not your thing it’s great to have a window into this aspect of [...]
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Trust Agents Review
On the recommendation of our marketing guy, I’ve recently been listening to the audiobook version of Trust Agents, by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. The book aims to teach the reader how to become a “trust agent,” an expression the authors use to describe someone who leverages the power of trust in the online word. [...]
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Is it Going to Be OK?
On a whim, I registered isitgoingtobeok.com today. I’m hoping to turn it into a collection of reasons to believe that it’s going to be ok. I’m off to a very small start. If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them.
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Awesome, but Useless
Andrew Tetlaw, my boss at SitePoint, has just launched a new micro-blog: Awesome but Useless. It’s a celebration of the coolest technological wizardry on the Web that couldn’t possibly serve any practical purpose, like animated cloth simulations built in JavaScript using the canvas element. Awesome, yes. Useful, heck no. But it’s good geeky fun. Check [...]
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Jason Fried on Why you Can’t Work at Work
This video, from Jason Fried (@jasonfried) of 37signals, really hit home with me. I’m often guilty of being a little quick on the trigger to interrupt people when I have a question or want their input on something. I’m going to try to put some of this theory into application in my work at SitePoint [...]
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I Love the Internet: Simple Font Stack Tester
I blogged about testing font stacks earlier this week at SitePoint, and pointed out a very early-days project on GitHub that seemed to be a first stab at developing a tool to simplify this kind of testing. Today I received an email from a reader, who apparently registered http://fontstacktester.com and set up a web-based interface [...]