October 2005 archives

Two days to the #sxsw panel on Open Source: 'Selling milk when the cow is free.' What questions do YOU want to sneak into the queue? — 13 min ago
OH: "'Middle class' means being able to waste an hour arguing about the definition of middle class with your college-educated friends." — 4 hours ago
Dear #drupalweb: Any designers out there familiar with whipping up Zen-based pure CSS skins? — 8 hours ago
"New drinking game! take a drink every time eaton says 'canonical!'" Truly, @lizak knows how to get a crowd drunk FAST. — 2 days ago
Truly, a cause we can all get behind. http://is.gd/9UeMD — 3 days ago

Papirteksturer — Super-gorgeous high res paper textures in a language I don't understand.
jQTouch — A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.
SPECWEAPS — CLASSIFICATION SAPPHIRE VORPAL JULIET POTUS EYES ONLY .
freesound — A collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Free foley in a box, browse-able by collection.
Opentape — A free way to make and host your own web mixtape. Simple, clean, effective.
Unlicense Yourself: Set Your Code Free — The Unlicense is a template for disclaiming copyright interest in software you've written; in other words, it is a template for dedicating your software to the public domain.
The Americanization of Mental Illness — "There is now good evidence to suggest that in the process of teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we’ve been exporting our Western 'symptom repertoire' as well."
In Defense of Lorem Ipsum — "Lorem Ipsum is one of those things like silicone breast implants or orange spray cheese in a can that just seems wrong..."
The New Cavemen Lifestyle — "Mr. Averbukh is a pre-Promethean sort of caveman. Much of his nourishment comes from grass-fed ground beef, which he eats raw. In a bow to the times, he sometimes uses a fork." Because vegan is way to bourgeois.
TufteGraph — Make pretty graphs with javascript, using jQuery. Supports slick tricks like stacked graphs with multipliers and other trimmings.

It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision -- a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage.

— Henri Matisse

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