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[Textless Tuesday] Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind
His article on the over-hyped Internet is also a good read.
Textless Tuesday: Meet Monkey
Meet Monkey BBC’s come up with the perfect way to follow the Olympics: an Adobe Air-based desktop application that lets you follow your favorite Olympic sports, set reminders, view the medal table, etc… You’ll certainly love the art if you like the Gorillaz (same artist). Plus, everyone loves monkeys so this is the perfect excuse to have one of the furry bastards around until you feel the need to move on to other forms of entertainment. The fact that you don’t actually have to do much is the more obvious …
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Has Anybody Seen My Freaking Prozac?
We are conditioned to think from an early age that the wealthiest people are the ones we ought to emulate. We’re bombarded with their actions on television and in the news. Entire magazines are dedicated to following the lives of the usually rich, and generally famous. It’s not that our parents told us money would make us happy. Most of us were told that money isn’t ‘everything’. We humans have this tendency to ignore words, then listen to actions. When dad worked through the weekend, or mom gushed over that …
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[EssentiaList] Own CSS
In 1994, Hakon Wium Lie proposed the concept of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to the world, moving web design one small, significant step closer to perfection (read a brief history here). For the virgin, the W3C has a short tutorial for those of us who have never used CSS before. There’s also a more robust tutorial (by the W3C) here, and another by The Web Design Group here, all of which are well worth bookmarking. In addition to the above, html.net’s CSS section is also a good place to go …
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[EssentiaList] Best of Edition
In no particular order, here are the links to some of the better posts in the [EssentiaList] series to keep entertained over the weekend: The Secular Sabbat Discover New Things Onlin Take a Minute to Enjoy Somethin Of Things Well Don The Change, Jargon & Idea Editi Cheat Sheet Editio The Concentrate Edition
[EssentiaList] Ultimate Workstation Edition
I’m gradually working my way to the “ultimate workstation”, and here are some of the better clippings currently in the archives: 1. This article on setting up the ultimate home office by the always fantastic D. Keith Robinson is a good place to start. 2. Obviously it’s important to take the long term consequences on the body into account, so I’m paying some attention to this article on healthy computing habits. 3. Worth mentioning from the article above is the online tool that will help you arrange your workstation for …
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Be Useful
1. Offer to help your customers 2. Present data visually 3. Use readable type 4. Use simple forms
