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Links for March 27th
- Wikirank
- Fantastic example of what can be done to visualize a vast amount of data – that being Wikipedia's content. I think one of the design industry's most interesting overall projects involves this kind of visualization of really big amounts of data.
- A Browser is More than Script | Bb RealTech
- "Why, then, do we talk about how "superior" Chrome is? And how Firefox is dying? When one looks at all of the browsers from an overall web experience, only IE8 is worse than Chrome."
Links for March 26th
- Do Search Engines Look at Keywords in URLs?
- We don't always know how search engines view URLs. We do know that they prefer "friendly" ones, but this sheds some light on what exactly they might look at.
- Glocal Christianity: The Postmodern Conversation is Over
- Looks at the idea that the postmodern conversation is over. We discussed this possibility when I was in college in 2004, and we concluded that in many ways it is indeed over. Whether we use the term or not, the pieces of this shift are making their way into the collective consciousness, which is part of the reason for less activity around the word itself. In addition to this, whether we use the term or not, many people are still ignorant of the shift's existence, which is another part of the reason. The edge is always moving.
Links for March 25th
- 10 Advanced PHP Tips Revisited | How-To | Smashing Magazine
- Great PHP article that was inspired by another article, leading the authors to write commentary and expansion on 10 PHP tips. I knew several of these, but still learned a good deal.
- THE RESCUE [+] HOUSE PARTIES – MARCH 25TH – WORLDWIDE
- March 25th is Invisible Children's Rescue House Party Event, and the official unveiling of the rescue plan. At this link, you can watch "Rescue," the newest documentary. In all honesty, I almost never cry (for better and for worse, of course), and this brought tears to my eyes.
Links for March 23rd
- The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (March 22, 2009) – "Sullivan Group Think"
- “This noxious corruption of religion is still at large. Gingrich, for example, sees it as a lynchpin for the future of the Republican coalition. And it has clearly helped delegitimize Christianity in the eyes of many who might otherwise be tempted to look at the Gospels in a more open-minded fashion. The damage these fanatics and reactionaries have done to actual faith – let alone a rational politics – is incalculable, and I'm damned if I will allow them to use the word "Christian" to describe their agenda. It isn't.”
Links for March 20th
- Goodbye Google | stopdesign
- Douglas Bowman, an amazing designer, was the Visual Design Lead at Google for the last three years. He is leaving, due to the company's culture of "a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data." I post this because it is a powerful statement that could be said by many designers at many companies that are built without intentionally creating a design-friendly culture.
- TCHO: Obsessively good chocolate for a new generation
- I have to admit: when it comes to chocolate, I can take it or leave it. But when it comes to the ethics of chocolate, I care greatly about the horrible slave-driven industry that produces most of the world's chocolate, and take every opportunity I can to celebrate ethically made chocolate like this brand's. They also seem to place a lot of value on high quality design, judging from their website.
Links for March 19th
- Seth's Blog: Advice on equity
- If you ever hope to start a business partnership of any kind, this is wonderful advice to keep around. "So, my best advice is to say, 'Today, right now, your contribution is worth 5% of the company and my creation of the company is worth 5%. The other 90% is based on what each of us does over the next 18 months. Here's a list of what has to get done, and what we agree it's worth…''
Links for March 18th
- A Review of Michael Spencer’s “The Coming Evangelical Collapse” « Reimagining Church
- Great observations from Frank Viola on Michael Spencer's recent article. Worth a good read.
- Another Limited Rebellion
- "the intersection of design and activism"
Links for March 16th
- The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (March 16, 2009) – How Bush And Cheney Tortured II: Verschaerfte Vernehmung
- If there are any left who wonder why many of us think Bush and Cheney should be tried for war crimes, read this.
Links for March 14th
- The Future of Christian Eschatology 5 – Jesus Creed
- This one finishes up the series, and ties some threads together. Again, I think these posts are incredibly important, and encourage you to follow them.
Links for March 13th
- the Jesus Manifesto » The Impotence of Pacifism?
- "Oppressors (everyone from dictators to slave owners to school-yard bullies) have told the oppressed to “turn the other cheek” in order to keep them in their place. This sort of passive pacifism does not properly reflect Jesus’ teaching. Jesus told the oppressed to turn the other cheek as an act of positive assertion of self-worth, but also as an act of love."
- There's nothing unique about Jim Cramer – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com
- "Unlike Cramer — who at least admitted fault last night and said he was "chastized" — most establishment journalists won't acknowledge that there was anything wrong with the behavior of the press corps during the Bush years. The most they'll acknowledge is that it was confined to a couple of bad apples — The Judy Miller Defense. But the Cramer-like journalistic behavior during that period that was so widespread and did so much damage is behavior that our press corps, to this day, believes is proper and justified."
- The Daily Show Full Episode | Thursday Mar 12 2009 | Comedy Central
- Jon Stewart with Jim Cramer on the Daily Show. This is the full episode. It is fairly easy to find excerpts, as well.
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