In Defense of Readers, by Mandy Brown at A List Apart. “[O]f late I’ve seen many a reader devour books on their iPhone (including one who confessed to reading the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy while scrolling with his thumb).”
Leaving Facebook, “I’ve recently realized that not only do I think Facebook itself is trivial and stupid – but it’s starting to make me think my friends who are on Facebook are also trivial and stupid.”
Non-Hierarchical Management, by Aaron Swartz.
Strophe is a library for writing XMPP clients. It is implemented in both JavaScript and C for use in a wide variety of languages.
The Golden Grid, a new CSS grid layout by the Emastic and Malo guy.
Diagramming the Obama Sentence, “My view is also that nobody’s above the law, and, if there are clear instances of wrongdoing, that people should be prosecuted just like any ordinary citizen, but that, generally speaking, I’m more interested in looking forward than I am in looking backwards.”
Where the wild things aren’t, “In 2002, disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick closed the Belle Isle Children’s Zoo despite opposition from the City Council, claiming the pressure of the city’s $75 million budget deficit.”
Last Night’s Cobra, I love the animations.