June, 2009

Links for June 24th

A List Apart: Articles: Visual Decision Making

If it takes only 50 milliseconds for users to form an aesthetic opinion of your site’s credibility and trustworthiness, are designers who create visually compelling sites simply wasting time and treasure on graphic indulgences? Patrick Lynch doesn't think so.

tags:: user-experience; usability; psychology; design

The Out of Bounds Church

June 23rd, 2009

A few years ago, during the process of earning a PhD, Steve Taylor wrote The Out of Bounds Church? to show the ways the church was and is changing.

Links for June 23rd

NPR's ombudsman: Why we bar the word "torture" – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com

NPR gets owned for their weak and pathetic refusal to use the word "torture," because it is "loaded with political and social implications for several reasons."

tags:: media; journalism; torture; news; politics

Links for June 22nd

Truthdig – Reports – Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

"Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. They have long embodied this struggle. It is we who need to be taught."

tags:: politics; iran

Links for June 18th

Why Iran Matters | The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan on why Iran matters so much to him, and why it is the central event in modern history right now.

tags:: culture; politics; andrew-sullivan; iran

Tentative Cornerstone 2009 schedule

June 17th, 2009

Cornerstone Festival is approaching quickly, and I just realized I hadn't written up a schedule.

Links for June 16th

Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3 | CSS | Smashing Magazine

"The earlier we experiment with and adapt new CSS3 properties, the earlier they will be supported by popular browsers and the earlier we’ll be able to use them widely."

tags:: browsers; design; css3; css

My Suspicisions About Systematic Theology | (Ir)religiosity

Great thoughts on the nature of systematic theology and its tendencies. "We will most definitely find that systematic theology is often used to reinforce the status quo at the center rather than identifying with those on the margins…"