Kevin Smith

SlickMap CSS — A Visual Sitemapping Tool for Web Developers

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:14:06 -0700

That’s a weird-looking deer.

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:23:28 -0700

That’s a weird-looking deer.

Turning MP3 audiobooks into iPod audiobooks

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:46:00 -0700

Create bookmarkable versions of downloaded/ripped audiobooks.

Wordnick

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:04:13 -0700

An ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them

Clever.

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:27:10 -0700

Clever.

MAMA: What is the Web made of?

Mon, 04 May 2009 13:12:07 -0700

Really interesting study from Opera. Not sure how I missed this when it was first published.

Honda Insight - Let It Shine

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:28:12 -0700

Well done. This one really made me smile.

"…one side effect, that was not lost on Anonymous, was the notion that for years to come there..."

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:18:03 -0700

“…one side effect, that was not lost on Anonymous, was the notion that for years to come there would be a number of digital books with the word ‘penis’ randomly inserted throughout the text.”

- moot wins, Time Inc. loses

Video

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:42:08 -0700

"Escovedo’s song “Castanets” appeared on the iPod playlist of George W. Bush,..."

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:39:16 -0700

“Escovedo’s song “Castanets” appeared on the iPod playlist of George W. Bush, prompting a three year self-imposed ban on live performances of the song.”

- cite

Hemlock 82

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:27:40 -0700

Hemlock 82

Foxy!

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:30:09 -0700

Foxy!

Rafe Colburn on the Bybee Torture Memo

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:54:19 -0700

Every American of voting age should read this article.

Photos of an abandoned residential block in Detroit

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:48:57 -0700

Horribly depressing example of the housing crisis in Detroit - 60 of 66 homes on a single block vacant and/or abandoned.

The Pond

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:43:42 -0700

Thoughtful essay on remote employment. The "pond" metaphor is apt.

A Portrait of the American Craftsman

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:43:24 -0700

These images make me want to create something with my hands.

When It Rains…

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:40:27 -0700

I can't explain why, but this is a great story.

Twitter: blaming Ruby for their mistakes?

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:08:25 -0700

Really interesting discussion in the comments, including several folks from Twitter.

Jimi

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:35:14 -0700

Jimi

Food for thought.

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:46:09 -0700

Food for thought.

"Data is the pollution of the information age."

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:55:29 -0800

“Data is the pollution of the information age.”

- Bruce Schneier

Justices Step Closer to Repeal of Evidence Ruling

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:57:28 -0800

Scary stuff. The Exclusionary Rule has the potential to prevent criminals from being convicted due to honest mistakes & trivial procedural errors, but it also closes a loophole that otherwise allows law enforcement officers to do an end-run around citizens' Fourth Amendment rights.

Google supports canonical URLs declared in the document

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:10:21 -0800

Come to think of it, rel="canonical" makes more sense than "permalink".

Enabling Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008 for arbitrary JavaScript

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:11:52 -0800

Very nice, though I wish I could find official documentation on it.

This is not a half-cooked lobster.

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:26:10 -0800

This is not a half-cooked lobster.

I know the feeling…

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:31:59 -0800

I know the feeling…

Templates for Rapid Interactive Prototyping (960 Grid System)

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:17:06 -0800

Probably faster than Illustrator for wireframing, and definitely more useful.

DO NOT

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:45:59 -0800

DO NOT

I never really realized rain could come down from a discrete...

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:21:56 -0800

I never really realized rain could come down from a discrete cloud like this.

"Unlike the 1930s, when food and clothing were far more expensive, today we spend much of our money..."

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:31:11 -0800

“Unlike the 1930s, when food and clothing were far more expensive, today we spend much of our money on healthcare, child care, and education, and we’d see uncomfortable changes in those parts of our lives. The lines wouldn’t be outside soup kitchens but at emergency rooms, and rather than itinerant farmers we could see waves of laid-off office workers leaving homes to foreclosure and heading for areas of the country where there’s more work - or just a relative with a free room over the garage. Already hollowed-out manufacturing cities could be all but deserted, and suburban neighborhoods left checkerboarded, with abandoned houses next to overcrowded ones.”

- Depression 2009: What would it look like?

Keen to produce imagery that didn’t fall into the traditional...

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:45:18 -0700

Keen to produce imagery that didn’t fall into the traditional genres of photography, this project’s central focus is the parroquet, a type of small, slender, long-tailed parrot.

"If, by the time you’re old enough to sit through a movie, you haven’t heard that smoking..."

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:32:31 -0700

“If, by the time you’re old enough to sit through a movie, you haven’t heard that smoking is bad for you, you don’t need a movie rating, you need a foster home.”

- Roger Ebert

"If the work that really matters to you involves understanding a relationship between a handful of..."

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:10:15 -0700

“If the work that really matters to you involves understanding a relationship between a handful of seemingly unrelated things and then figuring out the best way to portray, magnify, or resolve those relationships, then you’re already doing creative work.”

- Merlin Mann

Bizarre music video of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck played with a...

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:39:00 -0700

Bizarre music video of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck played with a glockenspiel & some stuff you’d find around the house, like kitchen utensils and beer cans.

"Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred."

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:02:40 -0700

“Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred.”

- Henry Rollins, on Twitter