Weekly Shaarli
Week 20 (May 14, 2007)
nodebox type goodness
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.
Lots and lots of libre vector goodies
Extending Inkscape with Python
And most are under the GPL \o/
Where the Firefox logo came from (and a variety of other graphic/web work)
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.
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.
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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?
command line videomaking
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 has proved ideal for producing high resolution (near-continuous tone) negatives for contact prints using alternative photographic processes, and "screenless" halftones for offset printing.
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.
Howard S. Becker's home
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.
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
A comprehensive view on still image/video compression standards
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.
The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the quickest way to build a works cited page. And it's free.
Libre design from Galicia
Oh, the joys of corporate agendas. RIP Freehand
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.
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.
The Thinking for a Living series is an ever-growing platform dedicated to the concept of open source design education.
BRINGING TOGETHER THE GLOBAL CREATIVE COMMUNITY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE BOOK 'DESIGNERS ARE WANKERS'
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.