[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Featured WordPress Theme: Jenny
- [Pressography - Siobhan Ambrose]
Jenny is a premium-like, free WordPress theme from speckygeek.com. It uses a lot of white space and typography for a clean, elegant design.
…I am a big fan of minimal themes with great typography and lots of whitespace. This one is particularly delicious. I love the subtlety of the different CSS options. And, you know all of those plugins that you install on every website – to insert ads on posts, to add twitter badges, tracking codes or related posts feeds? Well the Jenny theme comes bundled already with all of those features saving you quite a bit of time after the install.
- Sharing Share
- [delicious blog - nosivadnomis]
…there are plenty of changes coming based on our deep dive into how people have actually been using features…
A request we’ve seen from those who do actually want to share over the years, is the desire to Share links without having to actually save them.
- Art Direction and Design
- [A List Apart]
Sure, your design’s composition is perfectly balanced, the typographical hierarchy works, and the contrast is bang on. But, when you step back and take a look, how does it make you feel? Does your design evoke the right emotion? Dan Mall explains the difference between art direction and design on the web and challenges us to do it again, this time with feeling.
- 18-Year-Old Trumps Ageism, Becomes Youngest Elected Official In Maryland
- If you've ever sat through a six-hour school board meeting (and oh, I have), you know that this route to change is not usually the most riveting.
- Talking Point: Could Linux Abandon Directories In Favour Of Tagging?
- [Linux Journal - Michael Reed]
I'm convinced that Linux needs to make greater use of tagging, but I'm also beginning to wonder if desktop Linux could abandon the hierarchical directory structure entirely.
[Oh, I've wanted this (for Linux and Win) for years. Haven't yet found a file tagging app that could function as a reasonable file manager replacement. -L]
- Wednesday Geek Woman: Émilie du Châtelet
- …is one of the most under-celebrated scientists of the Age of Enlightenment. Born in 1706 in France, she received an unparalleled education at the encouragement of her father… She continued to study mathematics and physics throughout her adult life, and used her mathematical skills to win extra money through gambling.
…her greatest contribution to science came from proving one of Newton’s theories wrong. Newton believed the kinetic energy of a moving object was proportional to its velocity while Liebniz proposed the energy was proportional to the velocity squared. Émilie du Châtelet experimentally proved the energy was proportional to the square of the velocity.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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