A reminder that boycotting BP leaves you feeling good for buying gas from equally bad, if not as visible right now, other oil companies. "Just as buying green products is better for our eco-esteem than it is an effective way to save the planet, so consumer boycotts of the latest oil company to run afoul of public opinion are emotionally satisfying but ultimately futile."
"Instead of taking funds from wealthy Americans, the kids at Restore are actually growing crops and selling them in order to donate the money to American charities! Why? Because Bob Goff wants to instill dignity and purpose in the lives of his students."
Folks who unquestioningly support Israel can't understand the reasoning from we who don't, and we who don't can't understand theirs. This piece here nails the reasoning behind our disconnect.
Just what it says: how to conduct a content inventory. These kind of posts are really important right now, as the content strategy folk are giving us tools that most of us have never had. The beautiful thing is that they are also telling us what they are and how to create them.
An account of the massive oil disasters that regularly occur in Nigeria, and the extent to which the oil companies ignore the disasters and the people they affect.
"Rather than creating immutable, unchanging spaces that define a particular experience, they suggest inhabitant and structure can—and should—mutually influence each other. This is our way forward."
An introduction to the custom taxonomies in WordPress 3.0. This new feature can be a little difficult to understand in relation to other features, both because it is very new and because it does not appear in the admin area.
"Shatterbox wants you to wake up in the morning and love what you do. So we’re going to introduce you to lots of people who do and help you find how to get there yourself."
A massive step forward in web typography: Google has created a free font hosting service that lets designers embed and use any font in their directory. Beautiful news.
Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.