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Another article from Smashing Magazine: The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer – a step-by-step on what you need to consider.

An entire life story told in photos, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of an Olympus Camera. Has a music video sensibility about it. Not sure why they chose the exact story – it’s not a ringing endorsement of family life!

[ matt ] Benjamin Zander on music and passion a 20 minute TED video about classical music, and how to engage with people. Worth it for its insights into either.

50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive – summaries, without footnotes, of the chapters of a book of the same title. Many of these I’d heard before, but good to think about how persuasion works.

Interested in having a tattoo without the pain or the permanence? These Slip-on Tattoo Sleeves are for you.

[ hippo-ben ] aM laboratory – click the squares in the grid to make musical loops (vertical axis is pitch, horizontal is time). Fun to play with.

This NYT article on Data Centres will introduce you to the world of massive computing facilities that are out there to answer your Google (or Bing) queries, store your Facebook photos, and other computing processes you may never have thought about.

[ Between Two Worlds ] Susan Hill writes an essay on the loss of silence in our community and culture. It’s very late as I write this. I’m the only one up in the house. All the online videos and MP3s have been paused or closed. As I was reading the essay, i became aware …

Continue reading “Silence, Please”

A collection of Coffee Icons – many of them usable on your own website.

By choosing a particular hosting provider and specific plugins, this video shows how to create an ecommerce website with WordPress in under 5 minutes.