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• Excuses, excuses

  Some people might suggest it's not worth redesigning a site I only post to twice a year. They're missing the point. Read

• The Optimizer

  Every designer is wired differently. Some people are idea people, some people are artists. I'm an optimizer. Read

• Indistinguishable from magic

  I love video games. I'm terrible at most of them. But I'm a sucker for a game with a good story. Read

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Volume One / She & Him

As if Zooey Deschanel could get any more charming, she also happens to sing like a particular brand of female vocalists that nobody pays to record anymore — sort of Carole King by way of Julie London. Add M. Ward and a couple of vintage romantic covers and this is an album I like more every time I put it on.

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The Road / Cormac McCarthy

I’ve never been affected by a book the way I was by this one. The themes are about the biggest we can get our heads around, and the closest in. The prose is as stark and unsparing as the world it inhabits. I tried reading it in pieces, but I couldn’t sleep between, so I had to finish it in one go. I cried like a baby for the last ten pages and for a long time afterward. It’s the best fiction I’ve ever read, but it’s bigger than fiction. It really is something else.

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / Andrew Dominik

I couldn’t wait to see this movie, and I wasn’t disappointed. Such a perfect balance between all the elements that make a great movie: amazing cinematography, impeccable pacing, fascinating performances, pitch-perfect writing.

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• The pre-post- era of publishing Liz Danzico, Modulating Craig Mod “We’re witnessing a return to a different way of telling stories. Be it congruent to the oral tradition, a time we told stories without being anchored to text, be it something else, there is a return while we move ahead.”
• Lightbox_me This looks like a nice, simple jQuery script for modal dialogs and popups.
• The All-In-One Almost-Alphabetical No-Bullshit Guide to Detecting Everything Mark Pilgrim is doing an incredible job making HTML5 understandable and useful.
• Life is Beautiful “Kids can keep you up all night but it’s all worth it. Domestic animals give love freely to the least deserving, but their lives are short and their ends are often brutal. And it’s worth it. It is all worth it. Every day, even a sad day blurred by headaches and filled with business meetings, is magical and infinite. This dance, this particular proton dance, will never come again. This tune we’re too busy to hear will not be played again. Never forget to be thankful for your life.”
• Music notation with Canvas and Javascript Fascinating.
• Showroulette Tim Carmody: “When people talk about serendipity, they’re not always talking about dis cove ing some thing that’s totally brand-new. In fact, I’d hazard that they’re USUALLY talking about randomly unearthing something that’s comforting and familiar.”
• HTML5 and the Web Tim Bray: “HTML5 promises to broaden the class of application problems you can solve with HTML, providing a good user experience while saving time and money. But that’s all; it’s not better because it’s “Web Technology”, it’s better because it’s better. Except when it isn’t. ”
• A good problem to have Mike Davidson with some very smart writing on the state of Apple in 2010. “Apple will stay closed as long as being closed is a net positive to their business. Until people either start abandoning their products because of this or the do the opposite and adopt their products at a rate which creates a monopoly, they will continue operating at their current clip: high innovation, high profits, and high control.”
• Bruce Sterling: The Hypersurface of this Decade I love this “blog post from a possible future” as fiction from earlier this year.
• A Revolution In School Lunches Interesting look into the logistics and economics of making school lunches healthier (with no artificial reality show drama added).

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Wilson Miner is a designer and web developer in San Francisco.