SpaceWarps
Zooniverse have done it again. Now you can help in the hunt for sources of gravitational lensing.
It’s informative. It’s fun. It has genuine scientific value.
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A List Apart Issue № 371
This issue of A List Apart is a great double-whammy. Lara Swanson has a ton of practical tips for front-end performance enhancements, and Brian dives deep into making your own icon fonts.
Using SVG on CSS-Tricks
Chris takes a look at all the different ways you can use SVG today.
Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - Multimedia Feature - NYTimes.com
Excellent journalism combined with excellent art direction into something that feels just right for the medium of the web.
A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Comping: Obtaining Signoff with Mockups
A peak behind the scenes at the responsive design and development workflow at Bearded. It makes a lot of sense.
A List Apart: Articles: Mo’ Pixels Mo’ Problems
The kickass articles just keep on comin’. This one from Dave is a great overview of options for dealing with images in responsive designs.
A List Apart: Articles: The Web Aesthetic
A really great article from Paul that simultaneously takes a high-level view of the web while also focusing on the details. A lot of work went into this.
JoshEmerson.co.uk · Blog · Using Fonts for Resolution Independent Assets
Josh gives a blow-by-blow account of he created a custom icon font for an upcoming redesign of the Clearleft website: completely scalable and resolution-independent.
I truly believe it won’t be all that long until bitmap image formats will be the exception rather than the rule on the web.
A List Apart: Articles: Everything in its Right Pace
A great article by Hannah, focusing on the Long Web—it isn’t about the quantity of data you’re publishing; it’s the quality. This builds nicely on the article I linked to recently about digital scarcity.
A List Apart: Articles: ALA Summer Reading Issue
How about this for a trip down memory lane—a compendium of articles from over a decade of A List Apart, also available as a Readlist epub. It’s quite amazing just how good this free resource is.
The only thing to fault is that, due to some kind of clerical error, one of my articles has somehow found its way onto this list.
If this were Twitter, you’d be at-replying me with the hashtag “humblebrag”, wouldn’t you?
A List Apart: Articles: Style Tiles and How They Work
Samantha does an excellent job of explaining how useful style tiles can be for visual design and iteration.
Galaxy Zoo and the new dawn of citizen science | Science | The Observer
A lovely piece of mainstream news reporting on Galaxy Zoo and the other Zooniverse projects, and the broader role of Citizen Science.
A List Apart: Articles: Future-Ready Content
A great article from Sara Wachter-Boettcher on crafting future-friendly content. The content prioritisation described here mirrors what I’ve been doing in workshops.
Webstock: Jeremy Keith | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
I love these sketchnotes from my presentation at Webstock.
IMG_8191 - 2012-02-15 at 02-39-26 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
I can’t fave this picture enough. One moment of Webstock captured by Michael B. Johnson.
A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need
A terrific article from Wilto detailing the thinking that went into the Boston Globe’s responsive image techniques and how browser pre-caching is now throwing a spanner in the works.
Lava Lamp Installation on Vimeo
Brighton hacker Jason Hotchkiss demos his music-generating lava lamps in this promo video for the Brighton Maker Faire taking place the day after dConstruct.
Avalanche Skier POV Helmet Cam Burial & Rescue in Haines, Alaska on Vimeo
One of the more frightening things I've ever seen on the internet.
A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Grids
Superb article by Ethan on calculating percentages for liquid layouts. Read it. Do it.
Our Goal: No Guilt Upon Accusation Law — Creative Freedom Foundation (creativefreedom.org.nz)
New Zealand is enacting one of the most draconian unfair ISP policing policies in the Western world. "Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act assumes Guilt Upon Accusation and forces the termination of internet connections and websites without evidence, without a fair trial, and without punishment for any false accusations of copyright infringement."
A List Apart: Articles: The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)
This article is an oldie but a goodie. I find myself referring to it all the time: "Beating typographic correctness out of (X)HTML: more than you ever wanted to know about dashes, spaces, curly quotes, and other vagaries of online typography."
The Whale Hunt / A storytelling experiment / by Jonathan Harris
An experiment in human storytelling, using a photographic heartbeat of 3,214 images to document an Eskimo whale hunt in Barrow, Alaska.
SHOUTS & MURMURS: My Gal: Humor: The New Yorker
This article by George Saunders had me giggling from start to finish.
For A Beautiful Web | Creative web site design and development training and workshops
Malarkey has launched his latest project: For A Beautiful Web is a series of web design master class training workshops covering topics including visual design for the web, best-practice XHTML mark-up and CSS, Microformats and practical web access…
Activate The Death Ray | A demonstration site by Andy Clarke
A holding page for Malarkey's upcoming series of workshops. Add you name if your interested.
CSS Eleven | Malarkey Rides Again
Here's the in-depth lowdown on the CSS Eleven supergroup announced by Andy at Web Directions South last week.
Stuff and Nonsense
Malarkey's got a brand new bag... if by "bag" you mean "website". And a very nice bag it is too.
ELSEWARES // Independent Art & Design
An ingenious alarm clock that runs away if you don't turn it off quickly enough.
WikiHome - JotSpot Wiki (continuouspartialattention)
There's been a steady increase in talk around continuous partial attention (what with Twitter and all) so I here's the mother lode: Linda Stone waxing lyrical and expanding our vocabularies.
Gender diversity at web conferences (kottke.org)
Jason Kottke on the still-ludicrous imbalance at most tech conferences. This issue isn't going to go away. Conference organisers need to stop being part of the problem and become part of the solution.
A List Apart: Articles: Paper Prototyping
A great hands-on article on the benefits of playing with paper.
A List Apart: Articles: Whitespace
Mark has written a great article for ALA, focusing on one aspect of good typography: whitespace.
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke
Andy showed me some pages from the book over video iChat today. It looks great.
SVG in WebCore
Weep not, Ethan! SVG lives... possibly in Safari and Dashboard.
Authentic socks worn by Jon Hicks
Andy is selling Jon's socks for charity. Bid early, bid often.