Novelist Dave Eggers is creating a nation-wide chain of free writing programs for kids. This is a detailed look at the Chicago "store" which is a great glimpse at the imagination of the novelist (and I am sure many others who helped).
Company to watch: nau. Social conscience outerwear with some very innovative ideas. Everything I've read about them leads me expect they'll offer an awesome user experience to consumers.
Great write up of some facts about Google, including some usability tips that have the too rare distinction of being based on research.
Handy and Clever.
PBS is currently running an American Masters documentry about Frank Gehry. It has some of most illuminating sections about an artist's creative process that I've ever seen. Highly recommended.
A List Apart's style guide has excellent advice for writing blog posts in general.
Interesting productivity application idea. Part of a fun contest too.
Great looking terminal tool from Quicksilver's developer that I hadn't heard of. It is a plugin that works with Terminal.app so it satisfies the rules in my "Choosing Software Tools" post.
John Hicks's work includes the gorgeous digital version of the Firefox logo. In addition to being a stand-out icon and web designer, Hicks is a prolific blogger and selective linker. He quickly points out important developments in web design and software.
The website of David Shea, web designer and creator of the CSS Zen Garden. David is consistently on the cutting edge of pure CSS design. This is an excellent first stop for CSS coding solutions.
Dan Cederholm creates beautiful standards-based designs that perfectly fit the content they present while simultaneously having a feel that is all Cederholm's own.
Douglas Bowman's blog and web design studio, Stopdesign, spearheaded the Blogger.com redesign. This project brought together many of the important figures in the blogging meets design community.
A dense pool of very high-quality pure CSS design. The CSS Zen Garden's goal was to dispel the notion that pure CSS design is dry and unexciting. The site's concept is simple: Many designs, one HTML file.
Author of the web standards bible, "Designing with Web Standards" and cofounder of the "The Web Standards Project." Zeldman switching his web design magazine "A List Apart" to a pure CSS design in 2001 is a landmark event in the history of web design.
Merlin Mann's 43 Folders gives an adrenalin shot to time management theory with a tech-savvy but not necessarily high-tech approach. Also interesting is his use of social software like Del.icio.us and Flickr to form a community around his ideas.
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