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Joining Project52
“Project52 is a personal challenge geared toward getting fresh content on your website. The goal is to write at least 1 new article per week for 1 year.”
I’ve never liked the word “content” but I love when people set goals before themselves to write more. Anton Peck created Project52 this back in 2007. He has [...]
The next challenge for Web designers, choosing font faces
For years the Internet has challenged those that work on it.
At first it was all about how to get the bits from here to there. Then it was how to link them together and to navigate through them. Then it was about adding media. Next came display ports and fitting well-designed information on them using [...]
Posted in Notes Also tagged a list apart, design, font faces, internet, jason-santa-maria, type, typography, web 1 Comment
Flight is possible to man.
Another day, another great letter of note. I know I’ve suggested Letters Of Note in the past but today I must suggest this specific letter. A letter written by Wilbur Wright. My favorite letter so far.
“With this general statement of my principles and belief I will proceed to describe the plan and apparatus it is [...]
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Day three: Life.
Continued from Day two: The shell.
The warmth of the egg startled him at first. He never expected, in this cold, for the egg to be as warm as it was. Putting his hand back on the egg he tried to gauge the temperature of this massive, greenish egg that had suddenly appeared in his backyard. [...]
Day one: Discovery
NaNoDrawMo – Day one: Discovery.
Ted Arnold, a farmer from New England, notices what appears to be an egg just outside of his barn. Cautiously he approaches the object wondering where it may have come from.
As he stares at it for a few minutes from about 10 feet away he remembers a distant memory from when [...]
Dan Rubin: “I know how to clean a fork”
My friend Dan Rubin hasn’t written on his site in 13 months. However, the other day he came out of hiding and compared his less-than-frequent updates to the way he approaches washing the dishes. I’m linking to his most recent post for no other reason than to say welcome back Dan.
Oh, his site is Pink [...]
From Rapid Fat Loss to Strongmen: A Guide to Becoming Superhuman.
Tim Ferris, who I had the pleasure of sharing some barbecue with in Austin a few years ago, is preparing his second book – with the working title – From Rapid Fat Loss to Strongmen: A Guide to Becoming Superhuman.
I’ve read Tim’s first book, The Four Hour Work Week, and I really enjoyed it. Pouring [...]
Submit your handwritten haiku
Howard Hall, whom I’ve mentioned before and whom also leaves really great comments here on First initial, last name, is asking for some handwritten haiku for his fantastic haiku blog (non-breaking space).
It couldn’t be more easy to participate: “I’d love to be able to post a few guest haiku of the handwritten variety. Anyone willing [...]
Mandy Brown on feeding/reading
Mandy Brown exquisitely compares reading books to both reading feeds online and cooking bread. Her final paragraph sums up her post nicely.
“In our own time, I wonder if the very slowness of books makes them more valuable in the face of all the quickness around us, if their singular nature will prove to be their [...]
Random 60: Penmanship.
Random 60: Penmanship. | Favorite on Viddler.
How is your penmanship? My penmanship is little more than chicken scratch. Since I’ve started writing more I’ve been practicing my penmanship. It is slowly getting better but I have a long way to go.
Here are some tutorials that I’ve followed, so far, that have helped my writing a [...]
MarsEdit 2.3 is out and supports Tumblr
You may have seen me quip about MarsEdit the other day on Twitter. Really, though, it is an excellent piece of software that should be given a go by anyone that writes a lot.
I’m spoiled by a rich-editor in Wordpress, that saves drafts automatically and even has multiple revisions, and so I’m sticking with Wordpress [...]
Posted in Links Also tagged apple, applications, blogging, macintosh, marsedit, red-sweater, software, tumblr, wordpress 8 Comments
Why grow sentences?
Related to Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace: Shaun Inman nails it.
“This is how I design. This is how I code. This should really be how I write.”
Word Shaun, word.
Growing sentences with David Foster Wallace
Awesome.
Posted in Links Also tagged david foster wallace, growing sentences, james tanner, jason-kottke 1 Comment
Random 60: Can not find writing paper in stores!
Random 60: Can not find writing paper in stores! | Favorite on Viddler.
I know that writing letters is at an all time low – but is it so ‘unpopular’ to write that writing paper should be absent from the store shelves? I went to a few stores and not only didn’t they carry paper, they [...]
Regarding blog comments, again
Some more thoughts about blog comments, again.
Posted in Notes Also tagged alex payne, blogging, comments, conversation, feedback, interaction, jeremy-keith, john-gruber, thoughts 8 Comments
Review: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
A short review of Anthony Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential.
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Roger Ebert, now a blogger
My endorsement for you to subscribe to Roger Ebert's blog, I mean, journal.
THIS DATE, from Henry David Thoreau’s journal
I recommend subscribing to this journal.
Garrett Murray’s “Social Etiquette Rules For Instant Messenger Use”
A list of rules of etiquette for Instant Messenger. Here here!
Type testing on a few devices