NY Magazine: Steve Jobs in a Box

http://nymag.com/news/features/33524/#
"He saunters out onstage, and the first thing you think is, man, Steve Jobs looks old. The second thing you think is, no, not old: He finally looks his age. Well into his forties, Jobs appeared to have pulled off some kind of unholy Dorian Gray maneuver. But now, at 52, his hair is seriously thinning, his frame frail-seeming, his gait halting and labored. His striking facial features—the aquiline nose, the razor-gash dimples—are speckled with ash-gray stubble. A caricaturist would draw him as a hybrid of Andre Agassi and Salman Rushdie. The senescence on display is jarring, but it’s also fitting. After three decades as Silicon Valley’s regnant enfant terrible, Jobs has suddenly, improbably, morphed into its presiding éminence grise."

Yahoo! Finance: A Look At U.S. Home Price Performance in 20 Markets

http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070604/37282_id.html
"We also made charts of the historical year-over-year monthly percent change in the actual home-price figures for the 20 cities that S&P/Case Shiller tracks. These charts paint a pretty good picture of the severity of the declines in home price appreciation across the board. The one exception is Charlotte, where a decline has yet to take place."

Ethanol is Bad. Ethanol from Corn is Worse.

http://www.gimme-five.com/2007/06/ethanol-is-bad-ethanol-from-corn-is-worse/
"Ethanol has a negative energy balance. Ethanol from corn, switchgrass, and wood biomass requires 29%, 50%, and 57% more energy, respectively, to create the ethanol than the energy contained within the fuel"

6 Foreign Expressions You Should Know

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/6-foreign-expressions-you-should-know/
"Whether you like it or not, foreign expressions represent an integral part of the English language (and of many other languages, too). Knowing the meaning and usage of the most used ones is very important. First of all because it will enable you to understand pieces of text that include them. Secondly, because you might also need to use those expressions on particular situations (avoid using them just to sound smart though). Below you will find 6 foreign expressions commonly used in English, enjoy!"

Opera Dev: Making Wii-friendly pages

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/making-wii-friendly-pages/
"The Wii game console by Nintendo has a Web browser that uses the Opera 9 display engine. It supports most Web technologies supported by Opera 9 for desktop, including HTML, XHTML, XML, WML, RSS and Atom, CSS, XSLT, SVG, and JavaScript except designMode, contentEditable, and Audio. It does not support FTP, NNTP, IRC, XHTML+Voice, or widgets.

For details, see the complete list of supported specifications."

Wordpress Themes Site

http://www.wpthemesfree.com/

Some great free games (via Digg)

100 Free Full Games to Download Online
http://downloadfullversionpcgames.com/blog/2007/06/17/100-of-the-best-legal-full-version-games-you-can-download-online/

Alien Arena 2007
http://games.internode.on.net/content.php?mode=news&id=1375

Smashing Magazine: Creative Favicons: When Small Is Beautiful

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/06/14/creative-favicons-when-small-is-beautiful/
"We love creative favicons. Their beauty lies in the approach a designer has chosen to put something really unique inside of the 16×16px box. Designing favicons, it’s necessary to work with miniature images, and every extra pixel can be the wrong one. A good favicon is original, beautiful and - in best case - fits to the logotype and color schemes used in the web-site. Creating them is a challenge not every designer is able to cope with. It’s hard, but not impossible. In fact, many creative solutions are possible, but it’s damn hard to come up with some of them once you need them."

BBC: Adverbox Advetising

http://www.adverbox.com/bbc-2/
"Ingenious "See both sides of the story" banners being displayed as part of the "BBC Now in America" advertising campaign."

Kiss Boring Interfaces Goodbye With Apple's New Animated OS

http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/06/core_anim
"When Steve Jobs takes the stage Monday at Apple's programmers conference, he's likely to give the world a glimpse of an upgraded Mac operating system that could herald the biggest changes to the machine's interface in 30 years.

At the annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Jobs will probably show off Leopard, a Mac OS X update due in October that he has promised contains "top secret" features. But perhaps the most important feature is one that has been overlooked by many Apple fans: a new set of tools for building program interfaces called Core Animation."

Reflection.js

http://cow.neondragon.net/stuff/reflection/
"Reflection.js 1.6 allows you to add reflections to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.

It works in all the major browsers - Internet Explorer 5.5+, Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+ and Safari. On older browsers, it'll degrade and your visitors won't notice a thing. Best of all, it's under 5KB."

glider.js

http://www.missingmethod.com/projects/glider.html
I need to use this for something
"This script makes it easy to create a sliding carousel component like the one seen at www.curbly.com. Inspired by www.panic.com/coda."

Ars Technica: Product loyalty: consumers mistake familiarity with superiority

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070605-product-loyalty-consumers-mistake-familiarity-with-superiority.html
"Anyone who has followed consumer electronics and online services knows that once a product reaches dominance, it becomes very hard for it to be dethroned (hello, iPod, Google, and Windows). Economists have argued for years regarding the costs involved in finding and adopting alternatives, but the psychologists will point out that familiarity and comfort play major roles in keeping consumers loyal to an incumbent. Research that appears in the Journal of Consumer Research delves into how these factors, collectively termed "Cognitive Lock-in," develop and play out."

Smashing Magazine: Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/06/05/google-pagerank-what-do-we-really-know-about-it/
" Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows, how it works. Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. With billions of existing pages and millions of pages generated every day, the search issue in the Web is more complex than you probably think it is. PageRank, only one of hundreds of factors used by Google to determine best search results, helps to keep our search clean and efficient. But how is it actually done? How does Google PageRank work, which factors do have an impact on it and which don’t? And what do we really know about PageRank?"

Flash game: Shuffle

http://www.shockwave.com/content/shuffle/sis/shuffle.swf
"Use your mouse to aim and shoot the red balls and knock the yellow balls off the board. Remove all the yellow balls from the board before the red balls are eliminated, and you'll advance to the next level."

Rare and Out of Print Soundtracks (for download!)

http://www.italianhorror.blogspot.com/
"A site to dive into the strange world of Soundtracks. There will be all kind of rare and oop Soundtracks here on this site. Check back often :)"

User Experience Design at Mozilla: The User Interface of Firefox 3: Features

http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/06/01/the-user-interface-of-firefox-3-features/
"Firefox 3 is going to provide a wide range of improvements to performance, stability, and security, and it’s also going to present several new user facing features. Here is a quick recap of design work that’s been going on in the Mozilla community over the past few weeks for Firefox 3, along with information about how you can help contribute, by providing feedback on these designs, or creating your own UI mockups."

A List Apart: Who Needs Headlines?

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/whoneedsheadlines
"A lot of web copy is written by copywriters who aren’t trained in writing for the web—and much of the rest is written by people who aren’t trained writers at all. If you’re a designer who can consult intelligently on basic copy improvements, you can gain a substantial business advantage. This article is designed to help you do just that."

Cameron Moll: Skinning MS SharePoint with standards

http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2007/05/skinning_ms_sharepoint_with_st/
" Among the many reasons I might articulate for the relative slowdown in updates and articles around here, Microsoft SharePoint 2007 resides near the top of the list."

Colour Lovers: Colorful Beauty in Nature: Butterflies

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/06/01/colorful-beauty-in-nature-butterflies/
"One particular place to find amazing colors in nature is the Butterfly and lucky for us there are 17,500 species of butterflies in the world.

They use their bright colors to ward of predators by tricking them into thinking they are poisonous (some actually are) or by camouflaging themselves into plants or bigger insects."