Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 20 (May 14, 2007)

Create Digital Motion » Illuminating Lettering as Digital Process, in Elegant, Open-Source Mac NodeBox
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nodebox type goodness

Slides: A European View on Web 2.0

In this special posting, I again take the point of looking at the US market versus me living in Europe. Reading blogs from around the world, listening to podcast, shopping, making conversations as well as work online with customers throughout the world.

Galleries - Inkscape Wiki

Lots and lots of libre vector goodies

Inkscape Effects

Extending Inkscape with Python

Telegraphics - Free plugins for Photoshop & Illustrator...and other software

And most are under the GPL \o/

kirupa.com - Resource for Making Designers better Developers
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hicksdesign: design for print and new media
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Where the Firefox logo came from (and a variety of other graphic/web work)

Make an Auto Starting, Multimedia CD with a Video Embedded in an HTML File

This may be the easiest way to make a simple, interactive, multimedia CD, because it takes advantage of the multimedia capabilities already built into most web browsers.

Can Big Telco do Perestroika? | The Register

The theme at STL's twice-yearly Telco 2.0 Brainstorm is familiar: "How to making money in an IP-based world". But it has an added piquancy now.

SINAPSES - editora online

Editora de livros electrónicos. Descarregue gratuitamente e leia onde quiser!

Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What? : The Knowledge Tree

Social network sites (SNSes) like MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo are ubiquitous and today’s youth are spending a great deal of time using these sites to access public life. How is public life shaped by social technology?

Making movies from image files using ffmpeg/mencoder

command line videomaking

Aspire 1694 - Linuxhelp Wiki
Open Culture: Foreign Language Lesson Podcast Collection
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Ceibes.org

Ceibes.org será nun futuro próximo unha plataforma de novas, debate e creazón para o concepto mais amplo da Cultura Ceibe, que extende o modelo do Software a outros ámbitos da informazón (música, cinema, literatura, grafismo...)

RASTUS export plugin

RASTUS has proved ideal for producing high resolution (near-continuous tone) negatives for contact prints using alternative photographic processes, and "screenless" halftones for offset printing.

Gentoo Forums :: How to use portage correctly
FileTypes - Inkscape Wiki
symfony Web PHP framework
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Based on the best practices of web development, thoroughly tried on several active websites, symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.

Howie's Home Page

Howard S. Becker's home

YouTube - Akzidenz Grotesk
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A collage homage to Akzidenz grotesk

San Serriffe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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apophenia: 5 secrets to success

I've also been spending a lot of time lately mulling over questions from undergraduates asking how they can be me and worrying about elder academics who tell me that i don't deserve the attention that i get.

Red Hat - Liberation fonts.
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You are free to use these fonts on any system you would like. You are free to redistribute them under the GPL+exception license found in the download. Using these fonts does not subject your documents to the GPL--it liberates them from any proprietary cla

Axis Communications - Compression standards

A comprehensive view on still image/video compression standards

Main Page - Gentoo Xeffects

The Gentoo Xeffects Wiki is a wiki maintained by the best of the community to provide valid documentation for users. This helps alleviate the problems in an open wiki where anyone posts what they think is right, and not what is proven.

BibMe - the fully automatic & free bibliography maker (MLA, APA & Chicago)

The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the quickest way to build a works cited page. And it's free.

GND3.0 | Deseño gráfico. Software ceibe. Metafísica barata.

Libre design from Galicia

mprove: The Interface of Kai Krause's Software
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which went on to become a staple model in Vista/OS X

FreeHand Version History

Oh, the joys of corporate agendas. RIP Freehand

Debian on Acer Aspire 1690
mezzoblue § A Roadmap to Standards

When your skill using standard-based design eclipses your skill using old-school table-based methods, you’ll look back and marvel at how much more sense it makes to layout a page with CSS.

Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article (Book Review)

Here is an outline of the key issues, mostly in Becker's own words, hoping it would motivate you to read the original. The main points have been highlighted in bold. The complete citation of the book is given below.

Thinking for a Living

The Thinking for a Living series is an ever-growing platform dedicated to the concept of open source design education.

Designers are Wankers : what are we? : designers are wankers explained
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BRINGING TOGETHER THE GLOBAL CREATIVE COMMUNITY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE BOOK 'DESIGNERS ARE WANKERS'

UCLA Library | Digital Collections | Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990

The UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections has selected and digitized 5,124 of the more than three million images contained in the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News photographic archives.