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Links from June 17th

In Commentary on 18 June 2009 tagged browsers, cities, community, fonts, health care, language, links, politics, Ruby on Rails, The Media with 1 comment

• Telegraph (UK): US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive. I appreciate the realistic approach to dealing with the massive shrinkage some cities have undergone.
• IE6 denial message for Momentile.com on Flickr. Brilliant.
• Atul Gawande: University of Chicago Medical School Commencement Address. This is the argument that naturally flows from his important article on health care costs. Look for a separate blog post on positive deviants.
• Economix Blog: What Is ‘Socialized Medicine’?: A Taxonomy of Health Care Systems. Single payer, nationalized health care, and a public health insurance provider are all very, very different things.
• Financial Times: First Person: Frank Ahearn. Former skip tracer advises people on how to disappear.
• Smashing Magazine: Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs. Who doesn’t love fonts?
• James Fallows: Belatedly, on the Cairo speech & Obama rhetoric in general. A short explanation of how Obama differs from other politicians.
• Anil Dash: The End of Fail. Anil Dash really is the conscience of the blogosphere. The comments on this piece are really telling.
• Roger Ebert: The O’Reilly Procedure. A damning critique of Bill O’Reilly.
• Matthew Bass: Auto timeout sessions in Rails. I hate this feature but some applications demand it.

Links from March 12th

In Commentary on 12 March 2009 tagged cars, community, content management, css, design, drupal, links, performance, science, security, user experience with 1 comment

• Kurt Cagle: Is Dreamweaver being beaten by Drupal? The real question being asked is whether the features associated with dynamic database-driven Web sites are more compelling than the pinpoint control and top notch user experience of Dreamweaver.
• Pathfinder Development: Keeping Up With The Joneses: Keeping Rails and its extensions up to date. Managing dependencies is generally one of the most unpleasant aspects of any software development project.
• Eric Burke: Ban Software Patents. Yet another example of ludicrous patents.
• Michael Ruhlman: Michael Symon’s Pickled Chillis. Really cool recipe.
• Serial Consign: Desktop Deja Vu. The history of the default desktop picture that shipped with Windows XP.
• useum: Measuring Social Participation in a Science Museum. Useful for more than just museums.
• Wired: The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist. Looks fascinating but I’m not reading it ’til my Wired comes in the mail.
• High Performance Web Sites: Performance Impact of CSS Selectors. Hard numbers on the varying performance of different CSS selectors. Also a reminder that there’s a lot more we could be measuring that we don’t.
• oobject: formula 1 user interfaces. Incredibly fascinating comparison of the current state of steering wheels in Formula 1 cars.
• PC Pro Blog: I’m sorry but Dreamweaver is dying. Another argument that high end page-based authoring tools are giving way to Drupal.