Get a coffee, give a coffee - Jonathan’s Card
A lovely little social experiment: you can buy a Starbucks coffee with Jonathan Stark’s card; you can also top up the card. You can track the card balance on Twitter.
Link archive: August 8th, 2011
100 Year Starship Study
Now this looks like a fascinating project …and there’s a symposium happening in Florida at the end of September with Jill Tartar, Stewart Brand and more. I want to go to there.
Facebook will destroy your children’s brains | by Martin Robbins @mjrobbins | Science | guardian.co.uk
A pitch-perfect parody of people that peeve.
Web Actions: Identifying A New Building Block For The Web - Tantek
Tantek’s braindump of research he and Erin have been doing on web actions—verbs for the web, specifically interactions across sites: sharing, liking, and so on. I agree with him that this terminology feels better than “web intents.”
Rethinking CSS Grids| Mark Boulton
Some great, considered thoughts from Mark on how CSS Grid Layout could work as part of a larger tradition in design.
Button Sluts and Web Actions
Erin documents the next step after web intents.
Writing in the Margins: Manicules « A Pretty Book
A lovely little ode to the manicule.