Four of the last five days have just been beautiful here at the ranch. Despite the sunshine and longing to be outdoors, we’ve compiled our favorite links for the week. So, sit back with your pre-Halloween stash and enjoy.
Gmail goes big and gets IMAP.
Ben Tesch, a designer/developer just across the lake at MSNBC.com, is about to launch Cumul.us, a site which will aggregate weather data and use crowdsourcing to try to make better weather predictions than the experts. Sounds fun.
Not ready for apple TV? Check out Sansa TakeTV. Looks like a nice little piece of hardware, but can it play shows purchased from iTunes?
iPhone Dev Center. Thankfully you can sign up for a free ADC Membership to get into the site.
Doc Searls did a nice job of summing up the biggest problem with online journalism: it’s not news, it’s olds.
Patrick H. Lauke write a great piece called The artisan and the mass producer about the dichotomy between absolute semantic purity and the time-saving benefits of tools like content management systems.
Who says pets don’t deserve great design? Jeff thinks this cat condo is almost worth it’s $1000-plus price tag. The rest of the Blue Flavor office disagrees.
Garrett’s favorite comic of the week was Hugs from Left-Handed Toons.
Whoever said you can’t create more land obviously hadn’t heard about this island in the Pacific. Truly disgusting. (Garrett notes: A lot of lower Manhattan is made from garbage, too. For instance, Battery Park City—west of the WTC site—is added area from landfill.)
We’re all enamored with Blueprint around here and Jeff wrote up a nice little tutorial about how to get started with it.
Just in time for Halloween you can create your own Emergency Zombie Defense Station like John Lucas did. Very cool (and useful in this post-apocalyptic world of ours where the streets are overrun with zombies)!
Eric Karjaluoto has an excellent post on How to disarm 10 difficult client observations/requests I am going to file this away right along side of Blue Flavor’s Website Emergency Guide.
Danah Boyd has a rough crib of her talk at the 4S Annual Conference entitled Choose Your Own Ethnography: In Search of (Un)Mediated Life
Michael Angeles has yet again updated his OmniGraffle Wireframe Palette Really… stop it man, you are making the rest of us look bad!
Meryl Evans has a great post about Surviving Feed (RSS) Frenzy ..this article came at the right time having just decided to re-enter the RSS-reading world from my past information overload…pruning is not enough, you need a full scale industrial weed wacker.
Also be sure to check out Meryl’s feature on Why Marketing and Sales Need to Team up
Blue Flavor is co-sponsoring World Usability Day Seattle this year. Please check in for more details soon.
Jeff Croft is going to be speaking at Refresh Seattle on Tuesday. His topic is The Full Stack: Reevaluating the “Layers” of Web.
