On hiatus, with parting links
Thursday, July 1, 2010
On this first day of July, I am officially putting this blog on hiatus until 2011.
But you can still follow @iancavalier on Twitter or Flickr or 8tracks or Yelp or blah blah social media blah whatever.
(The hiatus monkey is courtesy of Squidsicle.)
Below is a large dump of random, interesting and useful links I had been storing for future posts or for future personal reference. Most of them were collected this spring. I may or may not have tweeted some of these in the past. Just flushing them out of my system now.
Web development & graphic design
- Less Framework: An adaptive CSS grid system
- HTML5 Reset Stylesheet
- CSS3 Generator
- WhatTheFont! font identifier from MyFonts
- Open Source Templates
- 15 Useful CSS3 and HTML5 Templates and Frameworks (April 2010)
- IE 5-8 CSS3 pseudo-class selector emulation: ie-css3.js (January 2010)
- 30 Minimal Logo Designs that Say More with Less (February 2010)
- How to Code up a Web Design from PSD to HTML (February 2010)
- 50 Inspiring Examples of Minimalism in Web Design (June 2009) and a university (Loyola University Chicago) that actually has a nice, uncluttered website
- 30 Beautifully Textured Web Designs (February 2009)
- Making a website iPhone-friendly using CSS (June 2009)
- 20+ Websites Optimized For The iPhone (January 2008)
WordPress themes
- WordPress Themes » Mobile Themes
- 40 WordPress-Powered Websites With Awesome Designs (April 2010)
- Using Facebook’s “Like” Button in Your WordPress Blog (April 2010)
- 17 Really Useful WordPress Plugins That Probably Are Essential (January 2009)
Music
- Jenny Owen Youngs – “Fuck Was I“
- Erik Hassle – “Nothing Else Matters (Metallica Cover)” and “The Thanks I Get“
- A Knife in a Gunfight – Ian Stillmunks from Des Moines, Iowa
- Synth Britannia – great BBC documentary about synth
Animals
- Orca Guardians – free documentary film
- Melanism: “More Black Penguin Sightings” and “Today’s Pic: Rare Black Penguin” (March 2010)
Games & cartoons
- Dino Run – 8-bit-style Flash game from Adult Swim
- Robot Unicorn Attack – Flash game from Adult Swim
- “Creating a Video Game’s World With Real People: Bright Falls” (April 2010)
- “After Warning, ‘South Park’ Episode Is Altered” (April 2010)
- 10 Most Ridiculous Cartoon Character Makeovers (February 2010)
- Younger and junior versions of cartoon characters
Random interest
- “Five Reasons Werner Herzog is More Badass Than Chuck Norris” (November 2009)
- 25 Bizarre Buildings in photos (February 2010)
- “The story behind sex and the city of Portland” (April 2010)
- The Babes of #Boobquake (April 2010)
- Chris Creamer’s Sports Logos and Marc’s Distinctive College Mascot Collection
- Institution Size and Brand Community (April 2010, University Business)
- Tilt-Shift and Lomography Photoshop actions (January 2009) and the Helpless video by Keith Loutit
- “Your new passport has a computer chip inside. Should you worry?” (October 2008)
- BBC – Languages – Spanish – Spanish Steps
- Glidden Paint Versus Behr Paint
I like this quote (read more at quotedump.com):
“What I try to do to maintain my sanity is alternate between artist and whore. If I was just an artist I’d be broke, and if I was just a whore I’d be sad.”
—Jonathan Lemkin, More Tales From the Script (2010)
See you back here in 2011, sometime. Maybe.