Odds & Ends
Snazzy Maps is a collection of links to, you guessed it, Snazzy Maps. When a Google Map isn’t enough look a these: Pale Dawn, Midnight Commander, Avocado World, Neon World, and more. A map to match every color scheme.
Can creaate your own map. styles colors level of detail, etc.
Stet’s full title is Stet: A Writer’s Journal on Culture and Technology. Many wonderful articles on how writing on for the web.
It is published by Editorially: The Best Writing is Rewriting, a collaborative writing forum.
STET’s goal is to demystify writing by drawing attention to how writing works. To that end, STET pairs good writing with notes that explain what makes writing good.
Topics on STET range across culture and technology, with special attention paid to the intersections between them. We aim to be as accessible and interesting to both practitioners and users of technology. You won’t find insider lingo here; you will find astute, well-written, and nuanced takes on subjects both timely and timeless.
The title pays homage to a discussion between writer and editor, in which one or the other marks a change “stet,” meaning “let it stand.” It suggests both discussion and revision, elements which we believe are at the heart of good writing.
Smashing Magazine is simply smashing. Articles on coding, design, graphics, and WordPress and other CMS programs and software.
Beautiful, helpful, indispensable. An essential email newsletter, a library, workshops, job board, etc. More than I can ever remember.
A very useful site for everyone who has tried to close an account and can’t find the link or tires of the 15 questions and clicks required to do it. There are, as of today, 280 links to get out of the soup easily: Just Delete Me.
The ability to get off each site is categorized from easy ( Artsy, Blue Apron, Dropbox) to impossible (Evernote, Gawker, GoDaddy).
Also includes a Chrome extension so you can use Chrome directly.
Confirms that some sites are just impossible to delete your account. Some hard. Some easy. Gives directions.
High resolution photographs from Gratisocraphy by Ryan McGuire of Bells Design. Easy download links in the corner. Look like stock photography but are free of all copyright restrictions and a nice give back.
Nice Web Type is a list typography tools online: tips, utilities, and resources available on the Web assembled by Tim Brown Type Manager for Adobe Typekit. Includes a video of his talk about fonts, the web, typesetting, layout, the tools we use, the information we gather, and the value of graphic design.