May, 2010

Links for May 31st

Nigeria's agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it | Environment | The Observer

An account of the massive oil disasters that regularly occur in Nigeria, and the extent to which the oil companies ignore the disasters and the people they affect.

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politics

environment

africa

The Hole in our Gospel

May 31st, 2010

Recently, I had the opportunity to read The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns through Thomas Nelson's BookSneeze program for bloggers.

Links for May 25th

A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Web Design

"Rather than creating immutable, unchanging spaces that define a particular experience, they suggest inhabitant and structure can—and should—mutually influence each other. This is our way forward."

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css

layout

design

Links for May 24th

Introducing WordPress 3 Custom Taxonomies | Nettuts+

An introduction to the custom taxonomies in WordPress 3.0. This new feature can be a little difficult to understand in relation to other features, both because it is very new and because it does not appear in the admin area.

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wordpress

Links for May 21st

A Season for Everything, Just Do It Faster… | FlowerDust.net

Anne reflects on our constant desire to do everything faster, and what it means and what alternatives we might give ourselves.

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anne-jackson

spirituality

culture

Links for May 20th

shatterbox | Make Your Mark

"Shatterbox wants you to wake up in the morning and love what you do. So we’re going to introduce you to lots of people who do and help you find how to get there yourself."

tags:

community

inspiration

video

Google Font Directory

A massive step forward in web typography: Google has created a free font hosting service that lets designers embed and use any font in their directory. Beautiful news.

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css3

css

typography

design

BBC News – Wealth gap grows between black and white Americans

"A new study has found that the gap in wealth between white and black Americans increased by more than four times between 1984 and 2007."

tags:

poverty

economics

race

news

Links for May 18th

The article element | HTML5 Doctor

When and why to use the HTML5 article element, and how it differs from other similar ones.

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html5

html

web-standards

Links for May 12th

Storyville Coffee Company

Mail order coffee roaster and seller that sends highly recommended, secret formula-roasted coffee to subscribers. The profit goes to International Justice Mission, seeking to rid the world of slavery. Described as "a new model of funding for non-profits (true partnerships with for-profits)."

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abolition

stores

fair-trade

coffee

activism

Links for May 11th

Control – 52 Weeks of UX

This piece examines the issue of control when designing user experiences, from the perspective of both the user and the designer in how control relates to simplicity, accomplishing tasks, and so on.

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user-experience

design

Money, Power, and The Price of Sugar | onehandclapping

This is a brief look at what sugar costs people in the Dominican Republic, but is more a look at how such things are swept under the rug and what we can try to do about it.

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julie-clawson

latin-america

fair-trade

activism

Publishing Apostles | the Jesus Manifesto

Mark examines what we are doing when we in the church give authority to the publishing industry to talk to us about ecclesiology, and asks how we can discern a way forward.

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ecclesiology

church

mark-van-steenwyk

Findability and Exploration: the future of search

Challenging thoughts on a number of different topics related to helping users figure out, and find, what they are looking for.

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search

information-architecture

Donald Miller, slacktivism, and activism

May 10th, 2010

I've made no secret that I love Donald Miller. His books and blog have encouraged me, shaped my thinking, and challenged me.