Ma.gnolia: William Lawrence's Bookmarks

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

2008-10-03T01:47:11-07:00

and now, we debate the male “monogamy gene” - open source sex |

2008-10-03T01:43:34-07:00

Study: men with genetic variant struggle with commitment

2008-10-03T01:41:48-07:00

ABC News: Monogamy gene found in people

2008-10-03T01:40:11-07:00

What if you could tell whether a man is husband material just by peering at his genes?

The Gene Genie meddles with relationships:

2008-10-03T01:39:44-07:00

Genetic variation in the vasopressin receptor 1a gene (AVPR1A) associates with pair-bonding behavior in humans — PNAS

2008-10-03T01:38:59-07:00

Natalie Downe: CSS Systems for writing maintainable CSS

2008-09-30T13:15:29-07:00

This desrciption was written by Jeff Croft. Better said from him than me. Natalie (who, for the record, is one of the friendliest people I've ever met!) has some really great tips for writing CSS in her slides from a recent talk. Be sure to download the PDF version, which includes her notes. One of my favorite bits in here is her definition of the difference between a framework and a library. It may not be perfect, but it's the best I've heard, especially as it relates to CSS frameworks (and God knows I've struggled to come up with a definition myself): > I feel the need to deﬁne what I call a framework. For me this is something that alters how you write HTML itself. This is different from a library, which simply provides individually reusable components. This is a really solid definition (even if it means I've been using the word "framework" incorrectly), and it pretty well encapsulates the reason why I really liked Blueprint when it was released, and am not such a big fan anymore. When Blueprint first came out, it was much closer to the *library* side, wherein it didn't define how you write your HTML (at least: not very much). Today, it requires you to liter your markup with tons of `div` elements -- and while this doesn't do much *real-world* harm, it does sort of bother the aesthetics of us who grew up on web standards and best practices. As you might expect from something coming out of the Clearleft camp, Natalie's CSS System presentation seems pretty focused on their usually-fluid-width, non-pixel-precise sort of design, but I think most of the concepts within can be tweaked to work for those of us who are more about the whole "make something in Photoshop and then make the browser version of it replicate that as closely as possible" approach. Even though Natalie says she doesn't like CSS frameworks, I think her CSS system approach actually has a lot in common with the idea of a framework (or library, or whatever you want to call it). In the end, the point of both is to come up with reusable, consistent development patterns that allow you to work in a way that's more efficient, maintainable, and elegant. People -- especially those who seem to oppose the idea of frameworks for CSS -- like to point out that CSS isn't programming. *Of course it's not.* But it *is* code. And it turns out that our programmer friends are a helluva lot better at managing code than most of us designers are. One of the main ways programmers manage code is to refactor things into a framework. And although not all of the framework concepts may translate well to CSS, the core idea of writing, storing, and maintaining your code in such a way that encourages reusability, offers "baked-in" browser compatibility, provides sensible defaults and hooks for overriding them, and keeps you from repeating yourself is smart stuff, and I'm glad to see other front-end developers finally starting to get on board. As I talk to people who write CSS for a living, I'm constantly shocked at just how much people repeat themselves and make their life more difficult in the long run by not reusing code (and by "reusing," I *don't* mean copying-and-pasting). Well done, Nat!

Interesting property search engine

2008-09-30T11:56:22-07:00

A property listing search tool that really focuses on the information. Mostly UK, but soon, the world?

Hey, that tastes good!: Bacon Candy

2008-09-30T11:42:55-07:00

The next time you fry bacon, try adding some brown sugar and chilli powder. Awesome!

Akoha ~ Come Play It Forward

2008-09-30T11:33:17-07:00

Tracking special collectors cards that you can share and trade with people in real-life and track the progress of the card online as it's traded with other people around the world.

Not Just for Profit

2008-09-29T15:25:19-07:00

Not-Just-For-Profit - Healthy lifestyles for businesses

‘Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours’

2008-09-25T11:41:25-07:00

Joe Clark now spells out this difference in his new E-book, an electronic book you can read in a Web browser or print.

World Wide Web Foundation

2008-09-15T07:51:16-07:00

The World Wide Web Foundation seeks to advance One Web that is free and open, to expand the Web's capability and robustness, and to extend the Web's benefits to all people on the planet. The Web Foundation brings together business leaders, technology innovators, academia, government, NGOs, and experts in many fields to tackle challenges that, like the Web, are global in scale.

Mixx’s Engine Room » Hiding content, accessibility, and the onload problem

2008-09-15T06:51:21-07:00

Jason Garber talks about how Mixx tackles their accessibility while still having fun with javascript.

Simple is Hard - Rasmus Lerdorf

2008-08-27T10:19:24-07:00

Rasmus Lerdorf gave a presentaion on the state of PHP at DrupalCon in Hungary.

Ma.gnolia.com - Find Web Sites & Build Community Online

2008-08-02T03:42:55-07:00

Links for adding Mark in Ma.gnolia and Roots features to your blog or webpage. Send this link to the webmaster of any site that doesn't have a share link to ma.gnolia.

Negativland & their Thigmotactic, from The A.V. Club

2008-07-24T17:22:01-07:00

Restore Address Book data without a backup- macosxhints.com

2008-07-24T15:07:06-07:00

You've got the drive. You've got the file. But, you don't have the where the hell or how the hell do i get that to the application of your real hard drive and application.

A 12 second Watchmen Trailer on 12seconds.tv

2008-07-24T01:21:14-07:00

DEFENDER of the favicon

2008-07-23T19:50:17-07:00

Staggering hack puts a playable Defender clone in your browser's 16x16 favicon; Firefox and Opera only. (via waxy.org)