archive/ 2009 May
Oracle Bones
An interesting journey through time, place, and culture in China. I enjoyed the use of personal encounters and narrative to illustrate cultural and historical difference.
Bookmarks for May 29th
- Exactly How to Create a Custom jQuery Accordion – Nettuts+ – A good solution for creating an accordion to navigate content. Nice smooth effects too.
- All About Floats – CSS Tricks – A good summary of methods for clearing and floating CSS elements. Some useful tips and tricks.
- Auto-Tune the News #4: spa regulation. serbians. sotomayor. – Somehow I've missed hearing about these videos until now, but they're great. I never thought I would get such a kick out of listening to a, albeit distorted, Katie Couric and Newt Gingrich. (via @danielbachhuber)
Bookmarks for May 19th through May 21st
- Twitter passes Bebo and Linkedin – A in-depth and statistical look at Twitter's growth (and the correlating Myspace decline). Surprising since it's coming from the MSM. American news organizations could learn something from The Guardian.
- jQuery Sparklines – Interesting jQuery plugin that allows for some pretty cool graphs to be created. Would be interesting to use for stocks and/or local temperature.
- Livestream.com – A great rebranding of what was already a good service. Appears that they're now making a small profit as well. Good to hear.
Build them to last – time for new urban development
I found this today via Andrew Sullivan’s blog. Well put together video explaining the need for sustainable urban development. Not only would this be something that would be better for the earth, but it would lend itself to greater human communities and probably make everyone a happier person. Watch it!
Dowd, gender, and a horrible Guardian article
With the recent news that Maureen Dowd of the New York Times plagiarized Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo there have understandably been a slew of article about the topic. Unfortunately, a columnist at the usually stellar Guardian writes this:
Dowd, with her valley-girl accent, was always going to stand out from that pool, and the [...]