Ruby on Rails CMS and Blogging Systems

Lingua: http://www.linguaproject.net/

Top 20 Ruby on Rails Content Management Systems CMS Tools:
http://www.rubyonrailsblog.com/articles/2006/08/28/top-20-ruby-on-rails-content-management-systems-cms


Mephisto: http://mephistoblog.com/

Typo: http://typosphere.org/

elogodesign: Complete Color Matching Guide

http://www.elogodesign.com/color-matching-guide/
"Research reveals all human beings make a subconscious judgment about a person, environment , or item within 90 seconds of initial viewing and that between 62% and 90% of that assessment is based on color alone."

zenhabits: Big Rocks First: Double Your Productivity This Week

http://zenhabits.net/2007/04/big-rocks-first-double-your-productivity-this-week/
"If your week is seven buckets, and you go into each bucket without planning ahead, and you fill it up with little pebbles and grains of sand and whatever other debris comes your way … soon there will be no room for the Big Rocks. Your buckets fill up faster than you know it, and once your buckets are full, you’re done. You can’t get bigger buckets."

Digital Web Magazine: HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/html5_xhtml2_and_the_future_of_the_web/
"As workers on the web today, we are dealing with many technologies that have been stable for a long time.

While HTML 4.01 is formally an SGML-based document format, the only clients actually treating HTML that way are validators. Browsers, on the other hand, treat HTML documents as tag soup—they try to make sense out of, and display, even the most horridly broken document to their best ability.

HTML 4.01 was made a recommendation in 1999, XHTML 1.0—a formulation of HTML 4.01 in XML—became a recommendation in 2000, and was revised in 2002. In other words, at the base of all modern web development is an eight-year-old technology."

Valleywag: Hottest Startups (Web 2.0)

http://valleywag.com/tech/the-chart/hottest-startups-250874.php
"In two threads -- one on Linked In, the other on Venture Beat -- commenters are nominating the hottest startups of Silicon Valley. We totted up the mentions on both threads. Facebook, the college social network, scores highest; with Admob, the mobile ad network, following up. Warning: we ignored obvious self-promotion, but those Valley hustlers are cunning; and we have to doubt the wisdom of any crowd that determines Linden Lab's Second Life to be one of the 10 most promising new ventures. In the comments: what do you think? Which companies least deserve to be thought of as "hot"? (We particularly liked this line from one of the Venture Beat pundits: "Digg is as hot as two pandabear-looking humanoids dryhumping each other in an empty casino in Second Life while chatting on Meebo. Get real.") "

Ianlabs: Indianapolis Web Design Blog

http://www.ianlabs.com/
"The adventures of a freelance web designer"

Communication Nation: What is an infographic?

http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-is-infographic.html
"This year's Malofiej competition is notable because for the first time ever, an interactive graphic was the only winner for the "best in show" award.

This sparked a lot of conversation about "what is an infographic?" As infographics go online, the line between infography and software begins to blur. Where does infography end and interface design begin?"

Josh Pear: Design Can Change

http://www.joshspear.com/item/design-can-change/
"I have plenty of creative and talented friends and I’ve expressed to a few of them that they are are lucky in that if they ever wanted to do a personal project or or focus on a cause, they could easily use their design, programming, or artistic skills to really make it appealing. It looks like a group of graphic designers did just that as they team up to address climate change. What started, and is still lead, by a studio out of Vancouver called smashLAB has now become a collective of designers that are working together towards a common goal. The issue here is global warming and though you’ve heard the issue all over the news, and even in Al Gore’s award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” seeing the story presented visually in an aesthetically pleasing fashion makes the lesson more enjoyable and memorable. Design Can Change focuses on using the talents of print, television, and advertising to promote awareness and change. They also work as intermediaries between the consumer and the producers to steer projects in a more environmentally conscious direction. The site was completely designed pro-bono and as you can imagine, is extremely clean and a pleasure to look at. I implore you to check it out."

Pentagram: Scenes from a Blog

http://blog.pentagram.com/archives/2007/04/portrait_of_a_blog.php
"Paula Scher diagrams the verbal jousting in the life cycle of a blog thread in the Op-Ed page of today’s New York Times."

Flickr set: Swiss graphic design history

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20745656@N00/sets/72157594296535170/
Great collection of histroric Swiss graphic design

Beta searches from Google and Yahoo

R&D projects from two of the biggest search companies.

Google: http://www.searchmash.com/

Yahoo: http://au.alpha.yahoo.com/

Influx.com: Badass origami stuff

http://www.influks.com/post862.html
" Some REALLY amazing origami art here.

Edit: A lot of people have been asking for citing sources. The place i found it honestly didn't have any sources, but i did some googling and this is what i came up with:"

Fuzzy Future: Bookmark Bliss: 10 Tools to help you select a Web 2.0 Color Palette

http://www.fuzzyfuture.com/tools/bookmark-bliss-10-tools-to-help-you-select-a-web-20-color-palette/
"Lucky for me, there are a lot of helpful tools that can turn color coordination nightmares into a dream come true If you’re in the same boat as I am, have a look at some of these sites I unearthed from my bookmarks:

ColourLovers"

Tutorial Blog: Top 10 Church & Religious Websites

http://tutorialblog.org/top-10-church-religious-websites/
"While compiling various lists for tutorialblog, something struck me - I kept noticing Religious and Church websites with really good standards compliant designs, something I wouldn’t have expected at first but makes complete sense - They are trying to embrace new technologies to get their message across. Here we bring together the best for you …"

WikiHow: How to Use English Punctuation Correctly

http://www.wikihow.com/Use-English-Punctuation-Correctly
Great wiki entry on all the major punctuation components and how/when to use each of them. It even goes over when to use em dashes! Exciting.

Flash game: Top Figures

http://www.vivalagames.com/play/topfigures/

Nintendo 8 bit games playable online

http://nintendo8.com/toplist/
"The Greatest Nintendo Games of All Times - Playable Directly In Your Browser!"

problogger: Blogging Is About Writing

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/04/02/blogging-is-about-writing/
"When you visit Google, do you click a picture to begin your search? Do you face a screen full of images like in a grocery store self-checkout? Click fruits, then apples, then scroll through pictures of apples before you find the Jonagold Apples you want to buy, and select those?"

http://avalonstarlove.com/

http://avalonstarlove.com/

Web Design Inspiration (Flickr set from Splat)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/splat/sets/981332/
Web Design Inspiration (Flickr set from Splat)