Lovely links for a fab Friday.
- Ma.gnolia API 1.0
- It’s what Willis was talkin’ ’bout.
- “Design Matters” with Debbie Millman (audio)
- Intelligent audio interviews with leading graphic designers and type designers.
- creativebits
- “Macintosh design community” blogazine.
- “Dear Secretary Small…”
- Carl Malamud on the privatization of the commons.
- Monkey Do
- The attractive, minimalist site of Mike Pick and Tim Murtaugh’s web design and development shop.
- Rosenfeld Media’s first book
- Rosenfeld Media has signed Donna Maurer to write a book on card sorting. Take a survey to help shape the book. (Note: All Rosenfeld Media books will be created with reader input. Disclosure: I serve on Rosenfeld Media’s advisory board.)
- “The Feed Validator is Dead to Me.”
- Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, on the politics of RSS.
- Sacramento Bee redesign critique in pictures
- “The page has a popover welcome message, tabbed features and a little JavaScript problem.” A critique by Aaron Gustafson, using Flickr.com as a teaching tool. (Interesting on both levels: the critique itself, and this usage of Flickr.)
- King Kong reviewed, March 3, 1933
- “Miss Wray goes through her ordeal with great courage.”
- Daily Show smart. Comedy Central website, not so much.
- “We’re sorry, but MotherLoad will only play on PCs with Windows XP or 2000/SP4+.”
- The New Yorker reviews “An Inconvenient Truth”
- “‘An Inconvenient Truth’ is not the most entertaining film of the year. But it might be the most important.”
- AIGA: Graphic No More
- Christopher Fahey of Behavior Design has mixed feelings about AIGA’s repositioning.
- Avalonstar
- The blog of Bryan Veloso.
- The Pains
- Novelist John Sundman, author of Acts of the Apostles (recommended for those who take their sci-fi black) and Cheap Complex Devices, has released this new, Creative-Commons-licensed, illustrated novella.
- Converting Flickr content to valid markup
- Like it says. Mini-tutorial on Veerle’s blog.
- Butt Head!
- Nick Fruhling observes that a certain magazine’s masthead requires special care. Via Veer.
- Font Finagler for Mac OS X
- Clears font caches, thereby often fixing problems in Photoshop, the Finder, etc. The free and possibly best font management tool, Linotype Font Explorer X, also does this, as does Cocktail. Both Font Explorer X and Cocktail are a part of life at Happy Cog — and a fine part of life at that. But if all you need to do is empty your font caches, Font Finagler gets the job done, and how.
