blog by a GNOME hacker/UI designer

some nice forgotten gems

Google isn't a canonical example of webdesign because of its bad logo? Great points made here about the place of webdesign and usability vs. aesthetics

online vector tracing app

This is too cool: "In a chessboxing fight two opponents play alternating rounds of chess and boxing. The contest starts with a round of chess, followed by a boxing round, followed by another round of chess and so on."

gpl v3 in understandable terms

or why using databases for organising data isn't necessarily a good option - "Maybe the reason flat files work so well is that a file system IS a hierarchical database"