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Links for December 3rd

RELEVANT Magazine – Christmas Charity Isn't the Answer
A good piece on the weaknesses of Christmas charity when compared with real relationships, and even sharing. While this leads me to think of a lot of justice issues that are probably behind the article's words, it doesn't mention that – probably because the idea of sharing itself is so foreign to most of us.
tags:
community
church
activism

Links for December 2nd

24 ways: Using the WebFont Loader to Make Browsers Behave the Same
Just what it says. Browsers load web fonts differently, and this is a JavaScript library designed to give us control over that. A good resource to have around.
tags:
javascript
browser-issues
design
typography

Links for December 1st

RELEVANT Magazine – Why Should We Care About Advent?
Rob Bell reflects on why we should care about Advent, and the church calendar as a whole. I've rarely cared about the church calendar, though I'm beginning to think that it's an important opportunity for us to get out of the realm of civil religion. "What the church calendar does is create space for Jesus to meet us in the full range of human experience, for God to speak to us across the spectrum, in the good and the bad, in the joy and in the tears."
tags:
advent
rob-bell
24 ways: Finding Your Way with Static Maps
The Google Maps Static API provides a way to put maps on a page for folks without JavaScript. This is a good thing, and almost no one does it.
tags:
google-maps
api
accessibility
javascript

Links for November 30th

A List Apart: Articles: ARIA and Progressive Enhancement
This is where the ARIA accessibility specification currently stands, a good summary of why it exists for those who don't know, and how we can start using it today. After that, it tells us the problems with using it today, and where we need to go from here.
tags:
web-standards
html
accessibility

Links for November 28th

Priestly Goth Blog: Advent Reflection: Had we fallen asleep on our watch?
Larry reflects on the wakefulness and watchfulness that, while associated with Advent, can lead us to either a dispensationalism that doesn't need the incarnation, or a frenetic activism that doesn't need God, and posits that both of these are wrong in light of possibilities available to us. Beautiful reflections.
tags:
eschatology
incarnation
theology
emergent
advent
Design Without Designers – Core77
Important words from Don Norman on the trends that seek to replace design with data. There's an important examination of the fact that testing, which is often used to prove that design is no longer necessary, is both essential and incomplete.
tags:
don-norman
creativity
design

Links for November 27th

Extending HTML5 — Microdata | HTML5 Doctor
HTML5 Microdata. I've been using microformats for several years, but I haven't begun to use this microdata yet, and this is a really helpful introduction to its placement in HTML5.
tags:
microdata
html
html5
Reflections of an Afro-Christian Scholar: When It Happens to Me
I'm as angry about the TSA madness as anyone, but it's desperately important for us to remember, or learn about, how similar this treatment is to the daily treatment that many poor and minorities receive.
tags:
race
poverty

Links for November 22nd

Adobe Labs – Adobe Illustrator CS5 HTML5 Pack
Illustrator CS5's pack for providing "initial support for HTML5 and CSS3" along with extending its support for SVG. I'm a big fan of this.
tags:
design
tools
svg
html5
css3
illustrator
adobe
adaptive path » soft skills for hard conversations
A necessary piece on how to "introduce challenging design ideas without creating challenging relationships." These are great ways to get folks invested in a design process in order to get better design out of it. Learn this stuff.
tags:
relationships
user-experience
design

Links for November 19th

Rethinking the Content Inventory: Sources of Data | Hobbs on Tech
Examines how to build a content inventory through different sources of data, including how it's viewed, where it comes from, how it's used, and so on. Great way to improve this for big websites.
tags:
content-strategy
HTML5 video player in CSS with Silverlight and Flash : MediaElement.js
Just what it says: HTML5 video player that falls back to Flash or Silverlight. Has a jQuery and WordPress plugin.
tags:
jquery
javascript
design
video
html5

Links for November 14th

I Know how Old You Are | Donald Miller's Blog
"When we are young or immature, right theology makes us feel superior, but when we are older and more mature, a study of theology makes us feel inferior and unworthy, undeserved, and grateful."
tags:
theology
donald-miller

Links for November 9th

Dadly Creativity In Play — Father Apprentice
I know I haven't blogged about it yet, and I hope to do so soon, but I'm going to be a dad. So I've been reading some new voices, and this is one of them. "I mean, we were the boys who played so well — who built forts, who created different worlds in our bedrooms, who made cars screech and skid and launch on the folds of our bedsheets. We’ve got that in us — we’re like the artisans of playtime."
tags:
fatherhood
parenting
My Car Crash and the Open View » Blog » Greg Boyd (Christus Victor Ministries)
Greg Boyd reflects on a recent car crash he was involved in, and what role prayer had, might have had, or did not have in the outcome. It's a beautiful post that I think shows the robust nature of open theism.
tags:
prayer
theology
greg-boyd
open-theism
Is the Emergent Movement A Colononizing Influence? | Ethnic Space Blog
A post asking whether Emergent is, itself, a colonizing influence. Randy Woodley reminds us that indigenous people have been where we are going, and can help guide us. I want to be a part of this.
tags:
post-colonialism
race
culture
church
emergent

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