Some links for February 1st through February 9th…

• Surfindian
  “To visit”
• 43 Folders - Interview with "Linchpin" author, Seth Godin | 43 Folders
  “To listen to — "Merlin's Interview with "Linchpin" author, Seth Godin"”
• RunKeeper | GPS Fitness Tracking Using 3G iPhone for Running, Cycling, Hiking, Walking
  “Looks good”
• Lifestream for WordPress
  “"Lifestream is a plugin built on top of the WordPress platform. It allows you to effortlessly integrate your social network activity across the web with your blog."”
• How to Create a Theme Development Environment for a Live WordPress Site
  “Useful for mods on the fly”
• Mamapedia™ - The wisdom of moms™
  “Bookmarked for Linda”
• ITA Software: Trip Planner
  “A great way to find flights”
• Bertelli • NYC • Biciclette Assemblate • New York City
  “Very smooth designs”

Some links for January 6th through January 18th…

• Simple Desktops
  “Just lovely.”
• MotionX News » MotionX-GPS
  “Interesting tracker for iPhone”
• Revision Behavior - Revision control made easy (Articles) | The Bakery, Everything CakePHP
  “Versioning for CakePHP”
• desire to inspire - desiretoinspire.net - Anson Smart
  “Living space inspiration”
• Gmail: Tips
  “Become a GMAIL Ninja”
• pachube.apps | Data Logger | connecting environments, patching the planet
  “Track data yourself”
• Nicholas Zambetti
  “Cool projects i wish i understood better”
• California Surf Museum Home Page
  “To visit in April”
• Special J: Image transfer technique
  “Great technique !!”

Some links for December 2nd through December 18th…

• Racked NY: The 38 Essential New York City Shopping Experiences
  “To do when I finally get to go with Linda”
• Belkin : Bluetooth® Music Receiver
  “Slick”
• The Best iPhone and iPod Touch Games of 2009
  “Spend some $”
• Google URL Shortener
  “Who knew.”
• BAJA loggin
  “Great slideshow of a BAJA loggin' trip by regular folks”
• Use Balsamiq Mockups to Protocast « Theresa Neil
  “More interesting wireframe techniques”
• Erik Hinterbichler » Herald
  “Nice MAIL plugin”
• ThinkGeek :: Photoshop Magnet Kit
  “A serious want”
• A time to get: Surf Logos
  “Lovely collection of retro log logos”

Some links for November 9th through December 1st…

• Balsamiq Exports Multi-Canvas Mockups to Single PDF
  “Links makes this worth checking again”
• ViewPoint
  “Interesting”
• Understand the iPhone backup
  “Tons and tons of info on how the iPhone is backed up and how to mange that.”
• The Pomodoro Technique™
  “Great way to sell kitchen timers”
• Tender Support — Support your product: Knowledge Base, Helpdesk, Forums
  “Great support site (via http://help.nirvanahq.com/)”
• Less is Better | UX Magazine
  “To read”
• Metakine - DVDRemaster
  “DVD decryption and copy for Mac”
• Concordia University has a spy-squad that snooped on novelist for "bilingual interests"
  “just a true WTF moment”
• Manifest : A WordPress Theme – Jim Barraud
  “Great theme”
• Fixed Gear Bicycles for the Road
  “Lots of good tech info”
• ULTIMATE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ON WHEELS | THE 1970’s VAN CUSTOMIZATION CRAZE
  “EPIC”
• Multilingual WordPress – WPML Plugin Review
  “Multi lang WP sites”
• Ux diagrams
  “Great drawings of wireframe and UX work”
• Pro Git - Table of Contents
  “Git Bible”
• jspdf - Project Hosting on Google Code
  “jsPDF is an open-source library for generating PDF documents using nothing but Javascript”

Some links for August 15th through September 24th…

• Shopp — plugin ecommerce for wordpress
  “"Shopp is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog."”
• 101 Things « More of Me Maternity
  “Stuff for Linda ;-)”
• benjamin hubert: chimney lamps
  “If I started making pottery again — I would try and make these. Beautiful.”
• Rubicode - RCDefaultApp
  “Set all the defaults on your Mac (10.6 included)”
• Quick Screencasting Using Quicktime X in Mac Snow Leopard
  “Super useful”
• Novikov self-consistency principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  “LOST theory wrapped up nicely.”
• The Office Lexicon
  “Office Jargon for the 21st Century”
• This Ain’t No Disco (it’s where we work)
  “Looking for inspiration for us improving the @plankdesign offices.”
• One Man’s Trash … - NYTimes.com
  “Love this so much. The world needs a lot more of this.”
• MailActOn
  “If I used Apple Mail — I'd use this.”
• Stat Key Designer Keys
  “Keys that look like what they open”
• How to Setup a WordPress Backup System
  “Considering setting up a S3 account to back up the blog and more.”
• Ultimate Htaccess Guide and .htaccess Tutorial
  “Acquire mad skills for using .htaccess files”
• PostSurf » The Handicapper General
  “For the epic comments thread and the Harrison Bergeron reference”

Some links for August 6th through August 15th…

• The Grolsch Beer Strap Lock - Musformation
  “Play Guitar ? Hate your strap falling off ? Like Grolsch beer ?”
• Wallpaper Roundup: Getting Things Done with Workflows and Quadrants
  “There are worse ways to GTD !! Love some of these.”
• Camera Genius for iPhone by CodeGoo
  “Interesting — at 99¢ not bad”
• Made in England Get your Christmas Cheat Sheets
  “Lovely colours and designs”
• DIY project: erik’s recycled wine bottle torch
  “Beautiful”
• When Zombies Attack!: mathematical modeling of an outbreak of zombie infection
  “Someone's thesis — and it's serious … so good.”
• Backpack - Backpack - Twelve South
  “Nice idea to use the space behind your iMac”
• FontGenius - Font Search and Identification
  “FontGenius is a font search and identification utility for Macintosh. FontGenius examines pictures and identifies typefaces of any text within a picture. Using advanced recognition technology, FontGenius will produce a list of likely fonts that match selected characters within an image, and will generate character previews of the matched fonts.”

Some links for July 7th through August 1st…

• Minimal Mac
  “How to minimize the visual clutter on your mac — excellent ! (from ed)”
• Fantastic Mr. Fox: Theatrical Trailer
  “Wes Anderson’s next movie will be a MUST SEE”
• DRIFT | Finding The Glide: An Interview with Israel Preciado, Sayulita MX
  “Ed's piece for drift”
• Apartment Therapy Chicago | 3 Small Space Solutions in 1 Tiny Kitchen Corner
  “Very smart”
• A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
  “Way toooo much info on Google Analytics”
• Pijama Soft Cases | LimitedHype
  “Very nice cases”
• The Photojojo Store
  “Great gifts for photographers !!”
• Web Design Inspiration for the iPhone
  “Some nice layouts”
• Mobile Fotos • Flickr browser/uploader app for iPhone + iPod touch
  “Nice looking Flickr/iPhone client — although i’ve been using FlickIt: http://www.greenvolcanosoftware.com/flickit.html”
• WPtouch: Mobile Plugin + Theme for WordPress ↔ BraveNewCode Inc.
  “Worth looking into for my site to work better on the iPhone”
• MeeNews :: A newsletter plugin for wordpress
  “Interesting — Does a lot for a plugin”
• MachineCodex :: Software : DateLine
  “Slick — DateLine is a small, simple app which displays a linear calendar on your desktop in a transparent window. It provides easy access to iCal by double clicking on a day. The background and text colors are customizable with support for transparency.”
• Mr Ulster: The Mac at 25 (Intelligent Life)
  “"The Mac at 25" by Douglas Coupland”
• Samsonite Toys Catalogue, circa 1972 - a set on Flickr
  “Want.”

Some links for June 17th through June 30th…

• Plain Clip
  “Plain Clip is a tiny Mac OS X application which will remove formatting from text which is on the clipboard.”
• Lifehacker - Top 10 Productivity Basics Explained - Productivity
  “G.S.D.”
• Gadget.brando.com.hk
  “Simple Camera mount”
• Black Bucket Madsen Cargo Bicycle - kg271
  “Love it”
• The US ZIPScribble Map (Updated) | EagerEyes.org
  “What would happen if you were to connect all the ZIP codes in the US in ascending order? Is there a system behind the assignment of ZIP codes? Are they organized in a grid? The result is surprising and much more interesting than expected.”
• Advanced Uses for Custom Fields in WordPress
  “More than any other single feature, what makes WordPress a CMS (as opposed to just a blogging platform) is custom fields. Custom fields are chunks of data that travel along with posts and pages in key/value pairs. This data can be pulled out and used in your templates as you choose, allowing for all kinds of smart and interesting things to be done.”
• Urban Outfitters LSTN
  “Great free tunes (link from ed — http://www.qualitypeoples.com)”
• http://www.nike.com/nikeskateboarding/debacle/
  “Want to watch — Online in HD soon.”
• Mac Dock Icon Spelling
  “What are you trying to tell me?!”
• Support Details | Tech support anger management
  “A really useful tool that helps your clients to generate a bug/problem repot.”
• Super Mario 3 shocking secret
  “Mind = Blown.”
• Oceans Waves Beaches: If Eames surfed… he’d be Ed Fladung
  “Surfrider's CEO Jim Moriarty posts about Ed.”
• Black Label “God Save The Label” Teaser | Radcollector.com
  “Great looking skateboard film”
• Terrible Yellow Eyes
  “An entire blog of artwork inspired by Where the Wild Things Are”

Some links for April 26th through June 17th…

• Fever° Red hot. Well read.
  “Interesting concept.”
• CTV Montreal - New bill regulating cell phone contracts
  “The end of 3 year mandatory contracts in QC — let's hope so.”
• LEARN TO DUCKDIVE | SURFLINE.COM
  “Coco Ho shows you how”
• Powers of Three | Relentless
  “Holy crap — well done. Heavy surfing in Ireland.”
• Thank you, Napster - The Globe and Mail
  “Napster 10 year on”
• Eastern Surf Magazine
  “New site”
• Prey = Software to keep track of your stolen laptop
  “Prey is a simple and lightweight program that will help you track and find your laptop if it ever gets stolen. It works in all operating systems and not only is it Open Source but also completely free.”
• Port Map and TCMPortMapper
  “Handy network config stuff”
• Meat: the slavery of our time | The Argument
  “Sooner than you might think, this will be a vegetarian world. Future generations will find the idea of eating meat both morally absurd and logistically impossible.”
• Incase
  “Great packaging by Incase.”
• How to Gather and Use Twitter Metrics (with pictures) - wikiHow
  “Good for you web types out there.”
• Alone Across the Ice | Men’s Journal
  “The importance of comments — Todd Carmichael's story called out in the comments by someone who was there and beat him.”
• Arduino - HomePage
  “Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.”
• Youtube - Ozzie’s 18-Second Barrel At Nokanduis
  “Holy bat shit — Videogame-esque.”
• Sissyfish: Tribute
  “Lovely tribute to Elliott Smith by Metric”

Some links for April 15th through April 21st…

• MUJI USA ONLINE STORE
  “MUJI now has an online store”
• Current work by Chris Jordan - ‘The Great Wave’
  “Artist Chris Jordan’s new work gyre recreates Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’. The piece usesh 2.4 million pieces of plastic, which is the amount of plastic that enters the worlds oceans every hour. It’s fitting way to visualize the massive amount of plastic we are leeching into the sea. From 70percent.org”
• FFFFOUND! | simple + pretty
  “Excellent typography”
• Eco Wooden Toys ::: Soopsori
  “Wow — love these.”
• Icons of Surf - Longboards: Single Fin
  “Surf shop with a crazy selection of single fins logs.”
• Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects
  “Thingiverse is a place for you to share your digital designs with the world. We believe that just as computing shifted away from the mainframe into the personal computer that you use today, digital fabrication will share the same path. Infact, it is already happening: laser cutters, cnc machines, 3D printers, and even automated paper cutters are all getting cheaper by the day. These machines are useful for a huge variety of things, but you need to supply them with a digital design in order to get anything useful out of them.”
• Photos for Eddie Vedder – Listen free and discover music at Last.fm
  “Eddie mental longboarding — love this photo”
• Calligrafia - a set on Flickr
  “Inspiring”
• Twitshirt
  “How could this *not* happen ?”
• Photic sneeze reflex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  “This is why I sneeze when I chew Mint gum. I can finally lead a normal life knowing this. ;-)”
• Elliott Kember dot Com
  “Classic Pulp Fiction dialogue, re-imagined”
• We love typography.
  “A place to bookmark and savour quality type-related images and quotes.”
• Telegram Stop | Send a Traditional Classic Telegram the easy way
  “Send a classic looking telegram via mail.”

Some links for April 1st through April 14th…

• http://www.michelgondry.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Portrait&Redirected=Y
  “Michel Gondry (yes that Michel Gondry) will draw a picture of you for $20.”
• IP Address Location XML API :: IP Location Tools
  “Free IP address geolocation.”
• Grape
  “Neat looking beta — 'Grape' is a visual and spatial way to organize temporary files.”
• Surfy Surfy — Surfboard Fins
  “Couple nice fins in here”
• Aerial Photography by Don Coles, Great Lakes Shoreline - Waterways
  “Some great shots.”
• IN STUDIO WITH ANDY DAVIS | SURFLINE.COM
  “Some great art — love the apple box frames.”
• ioanghip - Tweeting Cat Door
  “EXCELLENT use of twitter”
• Von Dutch Founder Brings Hard-Edged FTW Surf Shop to Rockaway Beach - NYTimes.com
  “The East coast needs a whole lot less of this shit. Selling "gangsterism" to an already tightly strung group of people is horrible.”
• BetterWorldBooks.com: Buy Used Books to Fund Literacy Worldwide
  “Good online bookstore that Linda likes.”
• Twilio: Web Service API for Making and Receiving Phone Calls, building hosted IVR and PBX telephone applications
  “Interesting for web app developrs”
• From Hollywood to Rideau Hall — Plank in the Concordia University Magazine
  “On the surface, Michael Moore and Michaëlle Jean don’t seem to have much in common. But they do share at least one thing: a connection to Warren Wilansky, BA 96. The Communication Studies graduate’s website creation company, Plank Design, has fashioned sites for the American cinematic provocateur and Governor General of Canada, among many others.”

Some links for March 25th through March 30th…

• VegGuide.Org | Tiende Santé & Végétarien
  “Must go to this place — it’s received rave reviews from a bunch of friends.”
• The Nambu Network | Social Messaging Streamlined
  “New Twitter/social net client — I wrote a review of it here http://www.stevey.com/2009/03/30/nambu-for-twitter-on-os-x/”
• BookMooch: exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter
  “Trade old books for what you want to read now”
• How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food: Mark Bittman
  “To buy — but supposedly no photos (?).”
• Slashdot | Pirate Bay To Offer VPN For $7 a Month
  “Excellent. Wonder if this would mask my originating country as Sweden?”
• phatfusion : googleDrive
  “Drive around google maps”

Some links for March 10th through March 25th…

• Vanity Press Plus: The Tweetbook | booktwo.org
  “Someone has made a book out of their first 2 years on Twitter.”
• Skilly Surfing image on Mpora Photo
  “2 guys about to go through possible hell.”
• FAILURE
  “Must keep this bookmarked for future use.”
• Apartment Therapy New York | Iconic Design: Alexander Girard’s Environmental Enrichment Panels
  “Love these designs.”
• Convert PDF to Word (DOC)
  “Useful for those clients who NEED stuff in word.”
• Improving the transition from paper to Photoshop | creative briefing
  “Good tips”
• jQuery Flash Plugin
  “A jQuery plugin for embedding Flash movies.”
• GE | Plug Into the Smart Grid | Augmented Reality
  “Neat flash/3d work”
• globeandmail.com: Science minister won’t confirm belief in evolution
  “This pisses me off”
• Death Was Punk Before Punk Was Punk - NYTimes.com
  “Well worth checking out — the album is out there if you look.”
• FFFFOUND! | Kimono II - Fishscale
  “Something about this pattern — and all variations of it.”
• BuddyPress » A WordPress MU Based Social Network Platform
  “BuddyPress will transform an installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform. Now available to download RC1.”
• Slicehost - VPS Hosting
  “Another good hosting option”
• Twimailer
  “Great service that improves Twitters email that you receive.”
• BODYSURF
  “Great photo”

Some links for February 23rd through March 9th…

• XERXES
  “Still one of my favourite internet jokes ever.”
• Confused by all the Twitter applications?
  “A giant list — what they do and what to use.”
• Atlas of True Names
  “"The Atlas of True Names reveals the etymological roots, or original meanings,
  of the familiar terms on today's maps of the World and Europe."”
• It’s Just Wonderful Beyond Belief!!!!!
  “I make a surprise guess appearance.”
• Nissan Nv2500: Nissan NV2500 Concept Revealed Live
  “Some serious surf wagon potential going on here.”
• Olly Moss
  “Some great design work”
• Why TV Lost
  “"About twenty years ago people noticed computers and TV were on a collision course and started to speculate about what they'd produce when they converged. We now know the answer: computers. "”
• Safari 4 Hidden Preferences
  “Safari 4beta hidden preferences settings - the tabs one is probably the most sought after.”
• SimpleCDN - Pure Delivery
  “Easy to use CDN service (work related link)”
• OmniGraffle Sketch Stencils | Konigi
  “Lovely”
• Modern Baby Furniture - Stokke & Bugaboo Strollers, Dwell Baby Bedding
  “This is going to hurt my bank account.”

Some links for February 18th through February 22nd…

• Franke James » The Green Driveway Articles
  “Small idea that I enjoy greatly.”
• How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 9 Into the Ultimate OS X Netbook
  “Makes me want one (actually — to make Linda one)”
• SOMA AirBag Designs - www.AirBagDesigns.com
  “Crazy travel surf board bag (only up to 7' 6") — the demo speaks for itself.”
• Nerd Merit Badges
  “"1.5", fully-embroidered, Velcro-backed. Attach to your jacket, your backpack, or the lid of your overclocked, battle-scarred laptop. Start a nerd sash!"”
• Managing Humans - The Pitch
  “Potentially good management book by http://randsinrepose.com”

Some links for February 6th through February 17th…

• 25 Best Blogs 2009 - TIME
  “Worth a browse”
• AIGA Design Archives
  “"20,535 examples in archive… sweet jebus" — GWB”
• 20 tips for better conference speaking
  “Good list.”
• Headphones: Antler Headphones Help Attract a Mate
  “Something oddly familiar about these headphones.”
• Zakaria: The Canadian Solution | Newsweek
  “Canada has done more than survive this financial crisis. The country is positively thriving in it.”
• WhatTheFont for iPhone: Overview « MyFonts
  “"With the iPhone version of WhatTheFont you can use the phone’s built-in camera to photograph the text in question (or choose an existing image from your photo albums). The app allows you to crop the image, focusing on only the important parts before uploading. After confirming which characters are used in the image, the app provides a list of possible matching fonts. You can then either e-mail a link to a MyFonts page with more info on that font, or open it up in the iPhone’s built-in Safari web browser."”
• Scene stealer: The aXXo files
  “"Though the mainstream media ignored it, this was a landmark moment for millions of filesharers worldwide: the 1,000th movie uploaded by aXXo, the internet's most popular and enduring pirate. If you already know his name, chances are you've been doing something illegal."”
• Concrete Block Humidifier by Sang-Jang Lee » Yanko Design
  “I would like this to be for sale. Old MTL apartments are dry.”
• FFFFOUND! | Apartment Therapy New York | AT Europe: London - Paul Smith’s Westbourne House Flagship Store
  “Love this wall”
• Why your avatar matters
  “Thank the gods Luke created me a killer one i've never tired of.”
• The Douche Card
  “"The Douche Card — Tired of arguing with complete morons? Tired of getting into bar room brawls? Well now avoid the confrontation with our glorious Douche Card. Simply hand it to the asshole in question and walk away. Problem solved."”

If you are on twitter — you can find me here — @stevey

Some links for January 30th through February 5th…

• BBC - Radio Labs - How we make websites
  “Process, process , process”
• Track your new subscribers in WordPress and Mint - Blog - Campaign Monitor
  “Useful for WP folks out there who are also using Campaign Monitor”
• Introducing Cufón - sIFR Alternative | Chris Jennings
  “"The game has been changed for those of us who are sick of the troublesome process of flash image replacement with tools such as sIFR. A new javascript-rendered alternative, Cufón, is geared to take the front-end design and development scene by storm."”
• ‘Immortal’ jellyfish swarming across the world - Telegraph
  “The things we don't know.”

Some links for January 21st through January 28th…

• The MacTipper Blog: Enable CD/DVD Sharing On All Your Macs
  “Excellent tip”
• Op-Ed Contributor - Back on Walton’s Mountain - NYTimes.com
  “Thoughtful Op-Ed from Douglas Coupland”
• WRITING ON WATER: THE ECSTASY OF SURFING | More Intelligent Life
  “Surfing piece from the Economist's offshoot quarterly lifestyle mag (… with Paris on the cover - bleh)”
• EverSave 1.0.1
  “Auto-magically save all docs between app switches or at intervals”
• Japanese Road Trip in Transforming Toyota Truck
  “Wow”
• Hex Color Picker
  “Lets you get and edit hexadecimal HTML color codes in the standard Mac OS X color panel.”
• favicon.ico Generator
  “I had to make a stevey.com favicon — this is the place to butcher that nice PNG to and ICO”
• Designing Web Interfaces: 12 Standard Screen Patterns
  “worthy of review”
• Toxel.com » Transparent Gadgets and Creative Designs
  “Some cool stuff”
• NFB.ca
  “The NFB reaches a new plateau finally — "Welcome to the NFB's new online Screening Room. Here you can watch full-length films, clips and trailers - all free for home viewing."”
• Layers | Screen forensics
  “Capture your displays as a Photoshop layered image”

Some links for December 29th through January 18th…

• Bakumatsu Koshashin Generator
  “NIce old timey effect.”
• Georgia On My Mind
  “"Mathew Carter’s graceful serif typeface Georgia is re-discovered by Web Designers. Featured here are 32 web sites that rely heavily on Georgia to display their content."”
• BLACK CAB SESSIONS
  “One song. One take. One cab.”
• Maoz Vegetarian - Union Square - New York Magazine Restaurant Guide
  “On my list to eat here.”
• How to Add Auto Complete to Your Google Custom Search Engine
  “Useful as we use CSE for some clients”
• The Pioneer Woman Cooks
  “The "Black Eyed Pea Salsa" looks amazing. (Thanks NC)”
• Diamonddave soundboard
  “Made me laugh”
• PS3 Sags in Battle Again Xbox 360, Wii - WSJ.com
  “The beginning of the end for SONY. Hard to believe they were such a powerhouse (who still produces amazing tech) and somehow blew it.”

Some links for December 15th through December 28th…

• Shots Between Takes - The New York Times > Art & Design > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 7
  “Couple great photos”
• Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » rug roundup part one: runners
  “Looking for a long funky hallway rug for our apartment - this is inspiration.”
• Cassette tape USB hubs
  “Love this”
• Forty-Two: half-star ratings in iTunes
  “Good hack”
• Project No. 8 / Danielle Aubert
  “I'm so curious what's in this book!”
• Surfing still shapes life of landlocked Gerry Lopez - Los Angeles Times
  “Gerry in the LA times”
• Surfers, Rejoice: Some Extreme Waves Getting Bigger | Wired Science from Wired.com
  “Hmm”
• CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA
  “Heavy looking flick.”
• WordPress “Art Direction” Plugin | jcksn
  “Per post "CSS/Design" control in WP 2.7”
• Is This Your Paper On Single Serving Sites?
  “"There is .. a growing and unusual phenomenon where site authors pursue a different approach. Many people have created sites that span merely a single page and do one thing — or nothing."”

Some links for December 2nd through December 15th…

• Best of 2008 – Last.fm
  “Lesson learned: Coldplay is still damn popular.”
• MacBook Pro tip: resetting SMC saved my day - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  “For future reference - my battery has been acting flakey”
• YouTube - Vinyl - Documentary
  “Not so much for me — but to show some buds who LOVE vinyl”
• Agrippa (a book of the dead) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  “One of the most inspiring pieces of art I've ever heard of.”
• pinvoke - Icons and pixel fonts
  “Great 1000 piece icon set”
• Gaia Framework for Adobe Flash
  “Crazy stuff”
• New Oslo Opera House Is Really a Stealth Skate Park
  “Makes me happy”
• Eco Warrior James Pribram Pushes To Change No Surfing Laws In Chicago | News | Surfers path
  “I support this guy”
• Apartment Therapy | House Tour: Lisa & Alex’s Craftsman Loft Montreal
  “Love this MTL apartment”
• How to Build an Igloo
  “Two Inuit men of the Far North build an igloo, using snow, a knife and their know-how.”
• Salendro Design : JivJiv bird hooks : Panali Key Tree : Sustainable hardware : Aluminum
  “Hand them your keys, bags, clothes, jewelry and more. Sustainability features include reclaimed packaging and a waste-minimizing cutting pattern.”
• Ralph McQuarrie’s Battlestar Galactica - a set on Flickr
  “Classic BSG concept art”
• #9 Changing In Public « Stuff Surfers Like
  “"The act of changing in public will remain a social phenomenon unique to the sport of surfing and the overall surfing experience as a whole."”
• The Grid System
  ““The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice.” — Josef Müller-Brockmann”

Some links for November 20th through December 2nd…

• The ugly man behind the curtain in music publicity… - Music Think Tank - Music Think Tank
  “"This is a post that I have been working on for a few months… I have been hesitating to publish it because it exposes the ugly man behind the curtain in music publicity."”
• Neoprene MacBook sleeve
  “Recycle an old wetsuit”
• MUJI AWARD 03 | Results
  “As someone I know always says… "Awards for achievement in the area of excellence"”
• wordpress-comments - Google Code
  “Interesting looking app”
• Pushpin Mario - a set on Flickr
  “Wow”
• Reebok rewards Nike Marathon ‘winner - San Jose Mercury News
  “Marketing can be a nasty business”
• Falling Behind?
  “"Are you open to some constructive advice? Turn off Twitter. Turn off iChat. Close your browser. Ignore RSS. Close your email if needed."”
• Boing Boing’s Holiday Gift Guide part two: Fiction - Boing Boing
  “Buy some books for 2009”
• nick_ollie_warnerbanks_web.jpg 334×500 pixels
  “Love this photo for the light / style / tweak / gap & no visible landing.”
• mustard-roasted potatoes | smitten kitchen
  “To make”
• YouTube - Police dash cam of Meteor over Edmonton, Canada
  “Crazy — good shot.”
• One Million Beer Bottles Later and it’s a Buddhist Temple | greenUPGRADER
  “Wow. wow.

  "The Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple is about 400 miles northeast of Bangkok in the city of Khun Han close to the Cambodian border. Using Heineken bottles (green) and Chang Beer bottles (brown) the monks were able to clean up the local pollution and create a useful structure that will be a visual reminder to the scope of pollution and the potential we can make with limber minds."”

Some links for November 10th through November 19th…

• Wii Energizer Power & Play Charging Station - a set on Flickr
  “Everyone who owns a Wii needs a battery solution. Something Nintendo should have included from the beginning IMHO.”
• Make Cake in a Mug - Wired How-To Wiki
  “You’re working at home and your mind starts to wander to snack possibilities…”
• DWR : Tepee
  “For next years surf/camping trips !!”
• Star Wars Storyboards - a set on Flickr
  “Early storyboards from 'The Star Wars'”
• The Wind Beneath : Miju 2008
  “Excellent pieces by a bud of mine.”
• Wooster Collective: Seen On The Streets of Chicago
  “Excellent graffiti”
• Stairporn.org
  “Not quite what you think it might be. Awesome.”
• Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops
  “Free stock sound effects — useful for some work stuff”
• YouTube - Buckminster Fuller - Live Your Life as an Experiment
  “Worth watching”
• Give Up and Use Tables
  “You know, we've all been there. We want to make it work with CSS. But sometimes it's just not worth the effort. The hacks and conditional comments ruin our clean markup. And we spend hours trying to make a simple layout work. Occasionally, we have to remind ourselves that we've done enough and it's time to move on.”
• YouTube - good morning Cornwall!
  “Beauty of a video — found via http://flyinglongboarder.blogspot.com/”
• CORDUROY LINES : ISSUE 7 (Online Longboard Surf Magazine : November/December 2008)
  “Latest issue of this well done online PDF mag.”
• 280 Slides
  “An online "Slideshow/PPT" app which really emulates a local app. Impressive.”
• National Audubon Society Field Guide to Trees
  “I want this. I want the whole series.”

Some links for October 31st through November 10th…

• World’s Largest Truck Goes Robotic : Discovery News
  “What could possibly go wrong?”
• COPY+PASTE Character
  “Shortcut for those tricky characters.”
• Sad Trombone
  “Excellent utility when times are tough.”
• YouTube - “Star Wars” - an a capella tribute to John Williams
  “Super well done.”
• Internet video by Motion Pacific
  “Some cool stuff going on here.”
• Script kiddies have awesome tools | dow.ngra.de
  “Behind the scenes look at one script kiddy hack.”
• Massive waves a mystery at Maine harbor - The Boston Globe
  “Wonder if anyone caught it .. "Dockworker Marcy Ingall saw a giant wave in the distance last Tuesday afternoon and stopped in her tracks. It was an hour before low tide in Maine's Boothbay Harbor, yet without warning, the muddy harbor floor suddenly filled with rushing, swirling water."”
• Yahoo! Personal Finance: Meet the 29-Year-Old Retiree
  “Meet the 29-Year-Old Retiree. Really.”
• Movies — The Facts About Dan Fowlie and Pavones
  “A documentary of the history of Pavones, Costa Rica: "King of Pavones"”
• Zombie world record broken in Nottingham, UK
  “"As any self-respecting zombie knows, it's very important that they come together and dance the Michael Jackson Thriller dance because that's what zombies do when they congregate" he added."”
• Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory Preview | Transworld Skateboarding
  “OMG - Now that's a fun house.”
• Opening The Door On The Quiet Revolution | Features | Surfers path
  “Excellent interview: "One of the pioneering brothers talks about all things Bonzer, one of the most influential board designs in surfing history."”
• Prototyping with XHTML - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
  “Part of my job well described.”
• Gear’s heart = Mind blown
  “"The action is half way through — Oh it's made from paper. PAPER!"”

Some links for October 22nd through October 31st…

• Whale Wars : Animal Planet
  “This show will do a lot for the image / support for Paul and the crew.”
• Bing Surfboards
  “Long board 'porn'.”
• blog | web.without.words
  “Welcome to web without words - a visual playground. Every week I'll take a popular and known website and reconstruct it by removing all words and images, replacing them with blocks (what is typical in the "concepting" phase of a design process).”
• YouTube - LOST.TV - CORY’S LEFT
  “Mile long pumping left — Cory Lopez on his first wave during a historical session at "the new Cape St. Francis". Cory went to this spot a month earlier but had to bail before he scored it on a good swell but he vowed to return. This is the first wave of that return session and the first time this wave has been recorded on video. Lots of seals, lots of rubber and lots of things that eat seals.”
• St. Laurent Blvd. will have free wireless Internet
  “Interesting to see how well this works.. and just as we move out of the neighborhood !!”
• Remote file backup services: Carbonite review
  “Good thread talking about (and bashing) some remote backup options.”
• Get ready to rocksteady
  “On the small caribbean island of Jamaica a music was born that conquered the world. Coming out of the ghetto, it has inspired generations to believe in and to fight for a better world. Today, everybody knows Reggae and its superstar Bob Marley. But the story of the founders of Reggae has never been told. Forty years later they are reuniting for the first time to record their old hits on an album and to tell their story.”
• Poladroid project : the easiest and funniest Polaroid Image Maker
  “Simple one trick pony.”
• Josh Mulcoy, Sam Hammer and Timmy Turner snow-camp to find freezing, perfect waves in the North Atlantic, ICELAND REVISITED | Surfline
  “Hard frick'n core”
• Recipes, Food and Cooking by Mark Bittman - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
  “One of our favourite cooks. He's got a great quality NYT's podcast that TIVO delivers.”
• The Barnyard Strategist - NYTimes.com
  “In a smart end-play which bypasses the lobbyists; California is about to radically begin changing the way animals are raised for food next week. Current polls see the bill passing by a wide margin.”
• Garamond powerline
  “Truly beautiful typography”
• Sign up on Huffduffer
  “UI on this is lovely.”
• Lost Footage Found! Get a Sneak Peek at the New Season
  “Trailer for 2009”
• smush it!
  “Image optimization is an art that not many people master. There are many good image editing tools that allow us to get the best visual result for a certain file size but "under the hood" a lot more optimization can be done.”

Some links for October 9th through October 21st…

• YouTube - Tyler Warren riding a 10’ Hobie Legacy
  “Excellent style. To be studied.”
• Op-Ed Columnist - A Farm Boy Reflects on Animal Rights - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
  “Talking about Cali's coming ban on farming practices.”
• paulhammond.org: Conditional classnames
  “CSS IE smoothness”
• Sailing Is Romantic | Surfers path
  “The reality of sailing around the world on a boat.”
• YouTube - Evolving Wall Animation
  “Stop motion animation done on the wall inbetween the stores Itrip Iskip and Unit Concepts in Braddon ACT.”
• Blender Defender
  “Have a cat that won't stay off your counters? I do. I finally got fed up with it enough to do something about it: scare the crap out of him with a motion-detecting blender (while recording the results for my own amusement, of course).”
• Surf photo I like
  “Surfer magazine "cameraboard" shot of Gerry Lopez from 1976.”
• A Truly Frightening Prospect
  “Excellent activist artwork for all you American readers.”
• Is It Over Yet?
  “Almost”
• Jason Fried of 37Signals on Business, Focus, and Avoiding Interruption - O’Reilly Broadcast
  “To watch when I have some time.”
• PalinAsPresident.com
  “Funny stuff.”
• CR Blog » Blog Archive » Keane on Korean Art
  “3D done the old fashioned way.”
• Sarah Palin Spin Command
  “Defend Sarah against the Liberal Media Elite. Spin their attacks and save her "bridge to nowhere".”
• Youtube, now in Super HD!
  “Funny”
• Patagonia’s Tin Shed
  “Nice little minisite”

Some links for October 3rd through October 9th…

• The eyeballing game
  “Excellent nerd game”
• Toyota RV-2 Mini RV - Retro Thing
  “The Toyota RV-2 prototype was unveiled at the 1972 Tokyo Motor Show. This bizarre 4-person camperwagon concept car was built around a Corona Mark II chassis and drivetrain. It seems that Toyota was attempting to capitalize on the popularity of the VW camper bus, but with a vehicle small enough to fit in a standard garage and practical enough to serve as everyday transport.”
• The secrets of ‘Survivor’ answered
  “At last! The secrets of ‘Survivor’ answered — Is show real? Can they bring tampons? Why so many models and actors?”
• DIBURROS: SMURFS WARS - Full Story
  “Between the years 2000 and 2001 I had an idea for a Graphic Novel about the SMURFS ®. As always, I didn't even start a script, just did some sketches for the heck of it. Other day I discovered that the small sky blue creatures complete 50 years in 2008 and decided to put this plot here, which as many others ideas, could one day turn into something… …or maybe not.”
• Naomi Wolf: The Battle Plan II: Sarah “Evita” Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State
  “Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.”
• YouTube - “Inspiration…” Part Two
  “2nd part…”
• Flickr: Panda
  “Excellent”
• Soft Drink Can Generator
  “Soda. Pop. Coke. Whatever you choose to call it, welcome to the Soft Drink Can Generator. Enter some text, choose an emblem, pick your colors and patterns, and click the 'Go' button. An soft drink can will be generated for you. Collect 'em, trade 'em, put 'em on your website, or e-mail 'em to your friends.”

Some links for September 17th through October 1st…

• Muxtape - The creator talks about behind the scenes with the music industry and the RIAA
  “"I love music. I believe that for people who love music, the desire to share it is innate and crucial for music itself. When we find a song we love, we beckon our friends over to the turntable, we loan them the CD, we turn up the car stereo, we put it on a mixtape. We do this because music makes us feel and we want someone else to feel it, too."”
• ‘Second Lives’ at the Museum of Arts and Design - The New York Times > Arts > Slide Show > Slide 3 of 9
  “"Sound Wave" (2007) by Jean Shin, center.”
• Fictional Sarah Palin Quotes Generator
  “"I see the United States as being a force for there has got to be action and we've got to keep an eye on Russia."
   — Sarah Palin Fictional Quote Generator v1.0”
• TiVo hobbled by TV providers’ HD monopoly
  “TiVo Inc. is having trouble cracking the Canadian PVR market because of the monopoly on high-definition television recorders held by Canadian providers.”
• ASCII Dwight
  “Excellent ASCII”
• Tetris Tiles
  “Inspired by the world’s most popular game, comes the world’s most popular tiles.

  No longer do you have to suffer looking at bathroom walls with no character.
  No longer do you have to hear the words Terracotta or Slate.
  No longer do you have to accept just one colour.

  Tetris Tiles puts the fun back into tiling. Ideal for use in Kitchens, Bathrooms, Bedrooms - any place that is worthy of colour and fun.”

• EFF sues Cheney, Bush, and the NSA to stop illegal wiretapping - Boing Boing
  “The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed suit against the NSA, President Bush and Vice President Cheney on behalf of AT&T's customers to fight illegal wiretappin”
• Blank Theme available through MagentoConnect - Open Source eCommerce Evolved
  “Great starting point”
• Sir Ben Kingsley STOMPS into the shoes of Minor Threats’ Ian MacKaye on Vimeo
  “"Sir Ben Kingsley: Oscar-winner. Knight of the realm. Sexy beast. Stars for MEAN…in a tribute to our hardcore heroes, Minor Threat."”

Some links for September 9th through September 17th…

• Alex Payne: al3x’s Rules for Computing Happiness
  “Well done”
• Typography for Lawyers
  “Hah — along the lines of "stop stealing sheep"”
• Orbicule | Undercover
  “Chance to recover your mac if stolen.”
• Adam Kimmel presents: Claremont HD on Vimeo
  “Crazy and Hi-res”
• Sea Surboards :: Boards :: Alive & Kicking
  “Holy fracking drool worthy. Some of the most beautiful design/glass jobs I've ever seen.”
• Genius Feature Coming to Older iPod Classics - Mac Rumors
  “Great news for people like me”
• Apartment Therapy New York | House Tour: Bill and Maria’s Cat PlaygroundNew York
  “Wilson would love us forever and ever.”
• Dedicated Servers Hosting, Web Hosting and Colocation from iWeb
  “Montreal quality webhosting”
• YouTube - Stevie Wonder - Superstition live on Sesame Street
  “"It doesn't get much better than this…. I can't imagine a better feel good song than this one! " I love the little kid waving his head.”