This is a beautiful little nugget: John Resig created a short lesson called “Learning Advanced Javascript” to teach a few powerful aspects of the language. What’s great about it is that it’s just a series of “slides” composed of nothing but a title above a chunk of code. The points are all explained by running the code itself, using a “Run” button above. You can then edit the code to try things out for yourself. It’s minimal and lovely: each slide is the introduction, explanation, demonstration, and lab for the point being made.
This is a fantastic little instructable about how to invent, manufacture, and market a card game. It’s a great instructable not only because it’s filled with useful nuggets of information, but because it’s so entertaining to read. That’s what makes Instructables very different from wiki-based diy sites: the best content aims to be a story, not a dry set of instructions that normalizes over time to be comprehensive but mediocre.
For some time, now, my friends Axel Albin and Josh Kamler have been documenting “message graffiti” (as opposed to what they call “aesthetic graffiti” and the ever-prevalent “ego graffiti”) on the site Written on the City. They’ve now released a book with the same name, collecting and arranging some of the best photographs of the site in a well-designed volume.
2.009 Product Engineering Processes - MIT's undergraduate competition for reuse, recycling, and development yielded some interesting entries, including a solar-powered bottle sorter, shea nut grinder, and insulation panels made from PET bottles. (posted by nagutron on 2008-01-03T19:19:10Z))
NodeBox | Home - Generate 2D visuals using Python. Beautiful stuff. Check out the Andren illuminated scripts and Evolution. From Watson. (posted by nagutron on 2007-12-11T06:59:50Z))
Ponoko - Ponoko is an interesting site: Rapid fabrication, user-contributed. Kind of like a CafePress for furniture and toys. This links to a nice-looking side table. (posted by nagutron on 2007-11-29T02:12:05Z))
