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Links for May 19th
- Bloug: Sweat the important things
- "One reason sites suck is that so many of us have forgotten why our sites exist. We get distracted, lose sight of priorities, and end up with sites that don't do the most important things users want. Such a site is kind of like Swiss Army knife without the, um, knife."
Links for May 18th
- Tinkering Monkey
- "Tinkering Monkey is a fine woodworking studio that makes simple, high-quality goods for everyday living." I've never been into woodworking, but have close friends who do it. It's wonderful to find a well-designed site for them to look at.
- Teaching methods: An alternative vote | The Economist
- "…one of the groups was switched to a style of teaching known as deliberate practice, which inverts the traditional university model. Class time is spent on problem-solving, discussion and group work, while the absorption of facts and formulae is left for homework. Students were given reading assignments before classes… The results were striking."
Links for May 16th
- The New Teatment and “what now for the church” | p.ost
- Andrew Perriman reflects on his "consistent narrative-historical reading" of the New Testament, and what it does and does not mean for the church today. I've read his writings for years, and while I'm much more on the side of N.T. Wright, and more so the Anabaptists, I find his perspective compelling and valuable.
- » The ‘IxD Bauhaus’ – what happens next? Johnny Holland – It's all about interaction » Blog Archive
- "Occasionally, amidst the rapid rise and fall of trends, fashion and fancy, we are faced with true revolution: paradigm shifts that throw out excess baggage of some kind and usher in new ways of thinking and seeing altogether. The catch is that you need to have the benefit of hindsight to truly measure their effectiveness. With this in mind, I believe that the interaction design community is witnessing an important revolution — an ‘IxD Bauhaus’ of sorts."
Links for May 13th
- How the Fall Makes You Feel | Donald Miller's Blog
- "Often when I consider the ramifications of the fall and how narrowly we define and reduce those complicated dynamics, how we reduce them to lust and greed and petty vices, I realize something much greater has happened. Essentially, we are all calling out for God to touch us that we may know we are here, and yet he waits, and we go untouched and seek out the knowing we exist in a thousand other ways."
- This is Not Actually a Blog Post – Brian McLaren
- Brian McLaren traces his own journey of thinking about homosexuality. Regardless of whether you agree with him or sit to his left or right, it's a good read, especially in light of part 2.
- This is Not Actually a Blog Post – Brian McLaren
- And this is the aforementioned part 2. It's important to see this, in light of all the recent criticisms of Jim Wallis and Sojourners. My own view is that if progressive types can't accept someone who may or may not disagree with them on one issue (but has thus far not taken a position), but has definitely dropped the ball on a justice issue for whatever reason, they are acting as badly as conservatives who do the same thing and are rightly criticized for it.
Links for May 12th
- Repenting of Christianity | Jesus Radicals
- "But I cannot repent of Christianity without naming myself as a Christian. I am a Christian, I repent of Christianity. I will keep saying that for the rest of my life."
Links for May 11th
- Standing in the Rain in San Francisco
- "I dream of the day when working people all over join hands and with peace and love in our hearts refuse to participate in a system that is so opposed to our own interests. I long for a mass movement of non-violent resistance dedicated to healthy communities, a healthy planet and an economic system based on the needs of creation, not the wants of materialism. These are the people and ideals that put President Obama in office and he seems to have forgotten. I don’t mind standing in the rain for these ideals."
- Our Citizenship is in Heaven
- "To be an 'enemy of the cross' is to reject the idea that self-sacrificial love, rather than redemptive violence, is the heart of reality."
Links for May 3rd
- Adactio: Journal—Whitney Hess: Design Principles — The Philosophy of UX
- "We should be establishing a philosophy about how to treat people, in the same way that visual design is about establishing a philosophy about how make an impact. Visual design has principles to achieve that: contrast, emphasis, balance, proportion, rhythm, movement, texture, harmony and unity."
- Adactio: Journal—Jared Spool: The Secret Lives of Links
- "The content of the links tells the importance. Links secretly live to drive the user to their content."
- A List Apart: Articles: More Meaningful Typography
- "By using culturally relevant, historically pleasing ratios to create modular scales and basing the measurements in our compositions on values from those scales, we can achieve a visual harmony not found in layouts that use arbitrary, conventional, or easily divisible numbers."
- Reclaiming the Mission » Excuses Seminarians make for NOT Getting A (“Real”) Job
- "The only option for many is to lead a missionary venture into a place in need of the gospel. This sounds good right? The problem is that this approach demands (most of the time) that the church planter get a job and be bi-vocational."
Links for May 2nd
- Font sizing with rem – Snook.ca
- I hadn't seen this technique yet, but in CSS3 there is a third method for sizing text, and it offers a way beyond some of the shortcomings of pixel- and em-based font sizing. Plus, it even has good browser support.
Links for April 29th
- Subtraction.com: My Column on Columns
- "I take a different position, though. I think that the desire to approach screen-based layout with columnized text is misguided. Multiple columns are an effective layout technique in print because they improve legibility for long blocks of text. But for digital media, it’s my feeling that they make it harder to read text."
Links for April 26th
- Information Architects – A Web Designer on Fukushima
- A web designer reflects on Fukushima and nuclear energy, among other things. "Is more technology really the right solution? Don’t we have enough technology? What is it that we are really lacking?"
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