The musings of a fellow named Beau.Tumblr (3.0; @beaudesigns)http://log.west.gs/<object width="400" height="231"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LXO-jKksQkM&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LXO-jKksQkM&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="231" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><strong>Pumped Up Kicks</strong> by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXO-jKksQkM&feature=player_embedded#!">WHZGUD2</a></p> <p>People who can do things like this always amaze me.</p>http://log.west.gs/post/11274089881http://log.west.gs/post/11274089881Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:08:05 -0500talentdancerobot<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsb053waf11qzoo7so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Pencil vs. Camera</strong> by <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/pencil-vs-camera-1317169316-slideshow/pencil-vs-camera-photo-1317168888.html">Ben Heine</a></p> <p>There must have been a lot of time & talent that went into creating these images. They are very neat, and very well done.</p>http://log.west.gs/post/11141200892http://log.west.gs/post/11141200892Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:02:05 -0500arttalentamazing<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsgcfrkV8u1qzoo7so1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Lazy Cat</strong> by Beau</p> <p>Our cat is the weirdest thing. It goes from running around the house like a possessed maniac, to plopping down on the floor and just laying there. Most of the time, right where you need to walk.</p>http://log.west.gs/post/11061545375http://log.west.gs/post/11061545375Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:06:05 -0500catcuteannoying<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/30/us-usa-justice-muffins-idUSTRE78T54220110930?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: reuters/oddlyEnoughNews (News / US / Oddly Enough)">Government did not pay $16 for muffins after all</a>: <p>It’s absolutely laughable that we’re arguing over $4,200 when we’re spending $1.5 trillion more than we make! Address the <a href="http://www.daveramsey.com/radio/highlights/?urlVars=2011/2/21/John-Q-Public-Has-An-Overspending-Problem">real problem</a>, don’t quibble about muffins…</p>http://log.west.gs/post/10982317764http://log.west.gs/post/10982317764Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:16:05 -0500governmentmoneyspendingstupidity<a href="http://www.appleoutsider.com/2011/09/20/netflixpr/">What Netflix Could Have Said This Week</a>: <p>Netflix is really doing a pretty poor job of transitioning. I completely understand why they’re doing what they’re doing, and I think majority of it is justified. They just haven’t approached it well at all.</p>http://log.west.gs/post/10849508664http://log.west.gs/post/10849508664Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:46:05 -0500netflixpoormarketing<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/6037430" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Toy Soldiers by <a href="http://vimeo.com/6037430">Alta Media Productions</a></p> <p>Another brilliant tilt-shift video. Will they never stop?</p>http://log.west.gs/post/10768443848http://log.west.gs/post/10768443848Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:41:05 -0500tiltshift“My son has a game tonight and his football pants magically tore up without any one ever touching them so I need to leave early and go buy him some non magic football pants.”<br/><br/> - <em>Jonathon</em>http://log.west.gs/post/10687756954http://log.west.gs/post/10687756954Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:01:05 -0500satire<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/29273575" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Music From A Dry Cleaner by <a href="http://vimeo.com/29273575">Diego Stocco</a></p> <p>Music really can be made from anything. It was nice of the shop owners to let him invade their shop to bring us this.</p>http://log.west.gs/post/10557420968http://log.west.gs/post/10557420968Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:01:06 -0500musicnaturalanything<a href="http://csswizardry.com/2011/09/do-designers-need-to-code/">Do designers need to code?</a>: <p>Do not undervalue the importance of HTML and CSS, they are easy to do badly, but hard to do excellently. You need excellence in both design and development, so leave each role to its respective person.</p>http://log.west.gs/post/10481430816http://log.west.gs/post/10481430816Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:00:05 -0500nerderywebcreative<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/29088090" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>37signals.com homepage evolution by <a href="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3007-37signalscom-homepage-evolution">Will Jessop</a></p> <p>This is a brilliant example of how a site should evolve. Dozens of minor iterations & tweaks with a very few major redesigns when it’s necessary.</p> <p>Most sites have a tendency to let a single design sit for months or years before doing a complete redesign, then repeating the cycle. Design is iterative.</p>http://log.west.gs/post/10403585433http://log.west.gs/post/10403585433Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:01:06 -0500nerderydesignevolution<a href="http://evolutionofweb.appspot.com/">The Evolution of the Web</a>: <p>A really cool visual of the evolution of browsers & the Internet.</p>http://log.west.gs/post/10277460105http://log.west.gs/post/10277460105Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:01:05 -0500nerderyinternetevolution<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr7gmxPfxK1qzoo7so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Train by Vincent Laforet</p> <p>The colors and tilt-shift on this photo are impecable.</p>http://log.west.gs/post/10202684758http://log.west.gs/post/10202684758Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:01:05 -0500tiltshiftartbeautiful<a href="http://log.maniacalrage.net/post/10087966556/ten-years">Ten Years</a>: <blockquote> <p>I was across the street working in World Financial Center 2 the morning of September 11, 2001. I heard the second plane hit, heard the explosion, and for a moment thought I was going to die. But I didn’t.</p> <p>I walked out of the building alongside hundreds of others and looked across the street at…</p></blockquote> <p>Garrett Murray has been an inspiration figure to me in the area of development for the last few years. I can’t imagine being that close to the World Trade Center when it collapsed.</p>http://log.west.gs/post/10126253738http://log.west.gs/post/10126253738Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:01:05 -0500historylifenycmaniacalrage<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/28516402" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Hipsters on Realtime (by <a href="http://vimeo.com/28516402">&yet</a>)</p> <p>They decided to ask some Portlandians about realtime technology.</p>http://log.west.gs/post/9995525245http://log.west.gs/post/9995525245Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:01:06 -0500nerderyjavascriptweb<a href="http://lisenstromberg.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/my-neighbor-steve-jobs/">My Neighbor, Steve Jobs</a>: <blockquote> <p>While Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal and CNET continue to drone on about the impact of the Steve Jobs era, I won’t be pondering the MacBook Air I write on or the iPhone I talk on. I will think of the day I saw him at his son’s high school graduation. There Steve stood, tears streaming down his cheeks, his smile wide and proud, as his son received his diploma and walked on into his own bright future leaving behind a good man and a good father who can be sure of the rightness of this, perhaps his most important legacy of all.</p> </blockquote>http://log.west.gs/post/9918674337http://log.west.gs/post/9918674337Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:00:06 -0500applesteve jobs<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lobxwiLVrc1qzoo7so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Sleepy kitty</strong> by Beau</p> <p>She used to be so small and cute…</p>http://log.west.gs/post/9834557078http://log.west.gs/post/9834557078Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:01:06 -0500catcutesleep<a href="http://davidwalsh.name/spin-js">JavaScript and CSS Spinners with spin.js</a>: <p>David Walsh is a very, very clever guy. It’s impressive to see something like a “working spinner” made with no images. The performance impact isn’t as bad as you would think either. Especially if you use the same spinner instance multiple times.</p>http://log.west.gs/post/9706698332http://log.west.gs/post/9706698332Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:01:06 -0500designjavascriptnerdery<a href="http://aaronweyenberg.com/uxgenerator/">UX Job Title Generator</a>: <p>If you need a title for your UX job listing, this site has you covered.</p>http://log.west.gs/post/9627545091http://log.west.gs/post/9627545091Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:01:05 -0500designnerdery<a href="http://whatdoesawebsitecost.co.uk/">What does a website cost?</a>: <p>It may be helpful to point customers to this website if they ask the question: “What does a website cost?”. It’s such an impossible question to answer, especially when the customer doesn’t know what they want!</p>http://log.west.gs/post/9546463420http://log.west.gs/post/9546463420Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:02:05 -0500developmentclient<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq2t9bn7YW1qzoo7so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://placekitten.com/">PlaceKitten.com</a> — A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code.</p> <p>I absolutely love this. Dynamically sized pictures of kittens! Brilliant!</p>http://log.west.gs/post/9418637615http://log.west.gs/post/9418637615Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:54:05 -0500kittensdesign