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Recently Electronest has been asked to contribute to a nice project; all benefits are going to UNICEF’s Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Children’s Appeal in the wake of Cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar on 2nd May 2008.

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Can You Feel The Love, Twitter? - O’Reilly Radar
A couple of nice comments on this interesting reflection about how Twitter managed despite a poor uptime service to attract not users but fans.
(tags: twitter user fan relationship simple)

Read more: links for 2008-06-09

Electronest website has 2 new pages: a selected web works list and an archive. This post is about self representation.

Read more: Seeing through web works & archived projects

electronest projects
a portfolio made on the basis of a “see trough website” - using a simple iframe and a short list of links to give acces to some of the things we do.
(tags: electronest website see_trough design simple)

blueprintcss - Google Code
the given demonstration pages seem to bring web design in a complete new light: back [...]

Read more: links for 2008-06-08

Lifeboat Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lifeboat Foundation was formed with the ethical premise that decreasing the likelihood of human extinction is the activity with the most positive utility on the planet today
(tags: future organization research science preservation humanity)

Edge 70
THE SECOND COMING — A MANIFESTO by David Gelernter - Everything is up for grabs. [...]

Read more: links for 2008-06-07

Why we skip Photoshop - (37signals)
37signals: When designing a UI we usually go right from a quick paper sketch to HTML/CSS. We skip the static Photoshop mockup.
(tags: css design html paper process webdesign methodology)

The Ampersand
a bog for a fascination for the Ampersand glyph, scribal abbreviation for and. Derived from the Latin word “et.”
(tags: typography ampersand [...]

Read more: links for 2008-06-04

Graffiti on a Brick Wall
how to photoshop graffitis on a wall - a must read
(tags: funny tutorial photoshop web)

It’s Nice That
China - carbon emissions in the light of western consumption.
(tags: poster photography installation toys economic carbon representation visualisation)

TapeDeck. ▸▸ The tape recorder…fast-forwarded to Mac OS X.
TapeDeck is a powerful and fun new audio recorder for [...]

Read more: links for 2008-06-02