Boosh and Chelsea – two favorites together! I must have missed this during my relocation.
Warhound – Winston’s owner reviews Inglorious Basterds. I saw this last weekend and enjoyed it very much, it was tense and funny. Bonjourno!
Lake Disappointment – Seriously?? I want a vacation home here.
Has Drupal peaked? – I hope not, but Claudio makes some very valid points. I’m not all up in Drupal daily anymore, but I still think Drupal is a good choice if you:
- have a large site
- are in need of complex menu hierarchy
- have a consistent design
- are in need of expandability
- have many users or editors
- and many other uses I am sure!
As a designer, I find it to be overkill for a blog or a small site.
Losing my Religion – “More meta than meat.” Chris Messina writes about design issues in open source.
When it comes to open source and design, design — and human factors, more generally — cannot play second fiddle to engineering. But far too often it seems that that’s the case.
And it shouldn’t be.
More often there should be a design dictator that enters into a situation, takes stock of the set of problems that people (read: end users) are facing, and then addresses them through observation, skill, intuition, and drive. You can evaluate their output with surveys, heuristics, and user studies, but without their vision, execution, and insane devotion to see through making it happen, you’ll never see shit get done right.
Fever – An alternate google reader for nerds. Looks very smart. I hope to try this out.
