I read Stuff
- Clublife. A
bouncer in a New York Club. The site looks dormant now, but the
archives are fun to read. He has a book.
- Waiterrant. One of the
original service blogs. Exceptional Writing. He has a book,
too.
- Dooce.com. A fallen
Mormon. Living in Utah. So does she.
- Kottke.org. A guided
tour of the web. More like a curator.
- Informed
Comment. University of Michigan's Juan Cole commenting on
currenty political issues with special emphasis on the Middle
East.
- Talking Points
Memo More left than right, and often has exceptional
investigative reporting. They played an important role in
keeping track of the US Attorney scandal when lots of other
outlets weren't.
I like Pretty Things
I Run
- Walk, Jog, Run. A
site that allows you to map out your running route in most major
cities and calculates how far you've gone. Also a repository of
routes.
- Running
Ahead. Has the same mapping function as Walk, Jog, Run, but
also offers you a free training log.
- Marathon
Sports. The local running store in Cambridge and
Boston. Great service, lots of selection. They even managed to
get me out of my Nike's.
I Waste Time
I love LaTeX
- LaTeX on Mac OS
X. A guide to various resources for running LaTeX on OS
X.
- Aquamacs. An OS X
friendly implementation of GNU emacs. It
allows you to have separate configuration files for running
emacs out of the terminal and running aquamacs within the GUI
Aqua Interface.
- Miktex. A LaTeX
distribution for Windows.
- Latexmk.
Short for LaTeX make utility. If you're running LaTeX under some
UNIX-like OS (including OS X), latexmk runs in the background
and automatically compiles your document. You can look at my LaTeX page for some thoughts about how
to use it on OS X.
- A List
Apart. Articles on all aspects of web design and
coding. This is a great resource, especially if you're trying to
code in compliance with web-standards.
I Mess Around with my Website
- Webmonkey. A nice
collection of tutorials and cheat sheets.
- CSS Zen
Garden. An illustration of what you can do with
style-sheets. In fact, many of the techniques I'm using here
I've learned from various submissions to the garden.
- mezzoblue.com. Dave
Shea created the CSS Zen Garden. This is his blog, and it
contains lots of interesting techniques for web-design.
- Stop
Design. Douglas Bowman, along with several other
web-designers, is also very active in promoting web standards
and accessibility. There are many interesting articles on his
site.
- WaSP. This is the
Web Standards Project. They advocate authoring
standards-compliant web-sites and using standards-compliant
browsers.
- W3C.org. The World Wide
Web Consortium. They offer an (X)HTML and a CSS validator to
help ensure that your sites are standards compliant. For what
it's worth, the last time I checked, www.harvard.edu wasn't
validated, neither for HTML nor CSS. Booo!