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links for 2007-06-22

• Curbly | DIY Design Community
  Interesting community site built around sharing home improvement projects.
  (tags: diy homeimprovement community home)
• Highgroove Studios :: About
  Dedicated server Rails host.
  (tags: rubyonrails hosting)
• Gridding the 960 ~ Authentic Boredom
  Web design blog. Happy Cog family.
  (tags: webdesign css)
• American Apparel - T-Shirts - Wholesale T-Shirts
  T-shirt company of choice for screened shirts.
  (tags: shirts apparel)

Heilemann profiles Jobs

This is strictly for geeks, but John Heilemann gives us a nice profile of Steve Jobs on the brink of the iPhone release, which could signify the next phase of the consumer electronics boom or end up as another skirmish site in the cell phone wars: The iPhone Inaugurates a Dangerous New Era for Apple Boss Steve Jobs -- New York Magazine

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Good, Cheap Scotch

With the understanding that one's tastes have to have become sufficiently skewed as to consider $25.99 cheap, the WSJ's Eric Felton ["Scotch Terms Scotched" - subscription required] throws a line to those of who love Scotch in the form of a recommendation:

Far more satisfying were the blended malt whiskies I tried from the Famous Grouse, a house making something of a specialty of vatted malts. Yes, there is still the basic Famous Grouse, a mainstream blended whisky that is the most popular brand in Scotland. But now the Grouse has a range of malt blends, aged 10 to 30 years. It doesn't hurt that the brand belongs to the Edrington Group, which owns two of the most celebrated distilleries in Scotland, the Macallan and Highland Park, and uses whisky from both in its blended malts. In my blind tasting, the 10-year-old Famous Grouse malt was one my favorites, well-rounded and admirably structured. And at about $25 a bottle, it is a terrific bargain.

Thanks, as usual, to Cyril for catching this. For reasons I cannot now recall, I stopped reading this week's Saturday WSJ with the financial section.

links for 2007-06-15

• Panteek
  Naturalist prints, drawings, etc.
  (tags: naturalist art arts drawings botanical)
• Grow Native!
  Source fore native SW plants.
  (tags: plants ponds bogs)
• Mellow Marsh Farm :: Catalog of plants
  North Carolina bog plants
  (tags: ponds bogs plants gardening)

Life ongoing

Before bed. Watch disc 2 of the third season of Deadwood, the most densely written, brilliant television series ever produced.

Going to bed. Trying to explain to Kim what Edward Tufte is all about and why I have requested the book Beautiful Evidence for Father's Day. Also just finished reading a very funny NYT piece on sperm.

Leaving the house. Lula clambers  up into my lap in order to roll her "googly guy"-- one of those sticky, stretchy, rubber hand toys -- through my hair. Eye-level with her diaper, I note aloud that she needs to be changed. "Noooo," she says, eying me mirthfully. "I'm not poopy. I happy, Papa."

On the way to work. Hear a duet on WKNC between Lucinda Williams and Flogging Molly, a band that invites comparison with the Pogues in their heyday. My college days.

At work. Wondering if I should buy an iPhone next month.

links for 2007-06-14

• Compiler - Wired Blogs
  Wired story on Zoho Creator, an easy-to-use database tool for crafting queries.
  (tags: database zoho scripting queries deluge)

links for 2007-06-13

• Coding Horror: Designing for Informavores, or, Why Users Behave Like Animals Online
  User Interface design in light of the "Berrypicking" model of information seeking.
  (tags: design usability webdesign)

Videos of snakes eating helpless animals

In my work life I often find myself extolling the virtues of marketing to niches. In an attempt to put my money where my unhinged jaw is, I'd like to introduce Snake Eats Goat, a vlog (video blog) devoted to an extreme niche: videos of snakes devouring small (and not so small) animals.

Cough. And on a lighter note, have you watched the Wet Pets commercial yet?

[I have to do something with all the domain names I acquired when I was trying to come up with a name for my new business, right?]

links for 2007-06-12

• Snake Eats Goat: videos
  Videos of snakes eating goats & other critters. Nasty.
  (tags: snakes goats snakeattacks pythons snakeseating)
• wonderfullyflawed | Ruby on Rails Course
  Fee intro course on designing complex web sites using Ruby on Rails/Ajax.
  (tags: rubyonrails course programming webdevelopment)
• Ruby on Rails Best Support Sites
  Resource index for Ruby on Rails development.
  (tags: ruby rubyonrails web)
• DevelopmentFirms in Ruby on Rails
  Resource list of teams that do Ruby development
  (tags: rubyonrails webdevelopment)
• Chinese-English E-mail | Chinglish
  Service for composing email in English that translates it into Chinese, and vice-versa. Interesting.
  (tags: chinese translation collaboration)

links for 2007-06-06

• www.thedieline.com
  Blog about design trends in packaging.
  (tags: design packaging)
• W3Counter - Free Web Stats, Live Analytics, Web Counter
  Tool for measuring visitor stats on blogs & other web sites (now that FeedBurner has been gobbled up by Google & all...).
  (tags: statcounter stats tracking)