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Links with minimal commentary

Muppets at FAO Schwarz

[daring fireball]
Build your own Muppet (and then buy it)!

mobile device input format - swype

Swype is a mobile device input format that allows for even faster text input by combining a keyboard and gestures.

Web without words

[elavision] Web Without Words - a blog looking at websites just as storyboards.

Lunchbreak in Rhodes

Lunchbreak in Rhodes

After a few days of playing Wii fit each morning, I’m finding it
harder to get it’s relentlessly cheery music out of my head.
Working at Rhodes is quite different to North Sydney, in every
conceivable way, although I have found one similarity: it’s quite
achievable to go for a walk [...]

22 ways for a new blogger to improve

If you like lists of blogging suggestions: 22 ways for a new blogger to improve.

some sites that will help you find images

Over at copyblogger was a post about finding images for your blog posts.
Most people who are looking for images to use will be aware of flickr (free - read about how the licencing works) and istockphoto (cheap), but from the comments on the post, I found a few sites that I’d only vaguely heard of, [...]

25 ways to build online community

[problogger] 25 ways to build online community.

understanding the financial crisis

The current financial crisis explained in simple terms (as to a 14 year old).

photos of coat hangers

From the amazing world of Flickr - photos of coat hangers. Better than it sounds.

if facebook worked like blackboard

[OLDaily] Short post asking the question if Facebook worked like Blackboard, how popular would it be?
Having used Blackboard for a course back at UTS, I can see the point - while it was good as a tool for facilitating online conversations, the very idea that everything is shut down at the end of every semester [...]

old-school sat-nav

Strange Maps: World’s Earliest SatNav - a series of paper strips on a scroll, in a wrist-watch. Very clever.

dilbert at OZ-IA

dilbert at OZ-IA

How true: how many people think that you can just add “easy to use” to the list?

finding and using flickr images

I’m not generally one to use photos that other people have taken on my own blog, but if you’re that way inclined, this guide to finding and using Flickr images is easy to read, and comprehensive in its coverage of the different copyright models that Flickr users have for their photos.

getting the small details right

The salt and pepper shaker that made Disney $100,000. How many businesses would do this, these days?

typewritten FAQ for a writer

In the days of letter-writing, this is an innovative Fan Mail solution.

online etymology dictionary

[@mpesce] online etymology dictionary - find out the history of words.

creepy spider

[boingboing] somewhat creepy, interactive spider

why it’s hard to stop reading blogs

[cade and lisa] Why it’s hard to stop reading blogs

nyt on social media

[/karen/ - fb] NYT article on “ambient awareness” - the unusual aspect of digital life where via twitter and facebook and other social networks, there is a new way of relating to people.

google chrome

It’s perhaps a sign of where I should be moving in my career to see that I’m more excited about the tour of Google Chrome’s features - the explanation of how it will work, and how clear Scott McCloud’s illustrations are - than I am about a new browser.