Famewhore is wonderful place to go for design inspiration. You are unlikely to find more polished design anywhere on the net, and with a sense of humour too. Quite heavy on Flash, Javascript and DHTML, go with your browsers set to KILL…
The Grant Street Journal is a well designed personal project dripping with bittersweet insights and gripping content. Well worth a visit.
SUFFOCATE is a group of web enthusiasts and designers who are given a different project each month. This month’s concept is to communicate a message without using text.
Finally the end comes to an exhausting and debilitating weekend filled with tensions and parties. It would be hard to deny that I have had a cool time, but I feel completely washed out. And I have work to do before I can sleep.
I was so appalled by Zeldman’s article on the POV 100 Top Sites Awards that I thought something had to be done immediately.
So in the spirit of promoting creative and expressive sites all around the web you should immediately take part in the barbelith no-corporate creative poll.
There are over fifty creative and intelligent sites listed. All you have to do is check out a different three or four each day until the new year and vote on which one of them gives you most hope for the future of the web. This way I get to introduce you all to a whole huge world of wonder on the web.
It’s very important that you all get over to The Nexus immediately and read the first person account of the Battle of Seattle (The Core). It’s incredibly moving stuff. Here’s a brief excerpt:
“The whole way I was hoping that this story would get out. Hoping that the level of violence inflicted on non-violent protesters, peacefully assembled, would wake a lot of people up and show them the level of democracy in this country. Hoping that people would see what the level of force aimed at people who peacefully oppose the interests that are dominant in this country and the world. I returned home to have this hope crushed. The local news stations were reporting on the broken windows of businesses and not the broken bones of protesters. They reported on things like “police fatigue.” Which I assume is when your arms get tired after you beat people for hours. They talked -and continue to talk about- the extremely “restraint, openmindedness, and gentleness” displayed by police.”
Epinions just can’t stay still! Now you can post comments on other people’s reviews. They’ve also redesigned the review pages – again I am not convinced by the new look. We shall see if it grows on me…
I wrote a review of Fight Club. Don’t read it. I have no idea what I think about it.
Oh cool – I’ve figured out how the archiving works (duh). Have a look at my life over the last month. I’ve had a funny time…
A range of important information that everyone should know about: