I read Stuff

Clublife. A bouncer in a New York Club..
Waiterrant. One of the original service blogs. Exceptional Writing.
Dooce.com. A fallen Mormon. Living in Utah.
Kottke.org. A guided tour of the web.
Informed Comment. University of Michigan's Juan Cole commenting on the Middle East. The name is accurate.
Talking Points Memo Josh Marshall's site is becoming less of a guide and more of a content generator every month. So far, the biggest claim to fame is being on the forefront of the US Attorney scandal.

I like Pretty Things

Visualcomplexity. A collection of visually striking graphic projects, mostly web-based.
Design Observer. Thoughtful commentary on design issues.
A List Apart. Articles on all aspects of web design and coding. This is a great resource, especially if you're trying to code in compliance with web-standards.
Better Living Through Design. Some of it is cheesy, some of it too fabulous to function, and some so cool that it really pays to visit the site often.
ArtHistory.cc. A nice repository of some great artworks.

Walk, Jog, Run. A site that allows you to map out your running route in most major cities and calculates how far you've gone. Also a repository of routes.
Marathon Sports. The local running store in Cambridge and Boston. Great service, lots of selection. They even managed to get me out of my Nike's.

Red Hot Pawn. Playing email chess. Great interface.
Desktop Tower Defense. kottke.org describes it as heroin on the internet. It's kind of addictive.

LaTeX on Mac OS X. A guide to various resources for running LaTeX on OS X.
Aquamacs. An OS X friendly implementation of GNU emacs. It allows you to have separate configuration files for running emacs out of the terminal and running aquamacs within the GUI Aqua Interface.
Miktex. A LaTeX distribution for Windows.
Latexmk. Short for LaTeX make utility. If you're running LaTeX under some UNIX-like OS (including OS X), latexmk runs in the background and automatically compiles your document. You can look at my LaTeX page for some thoughts about how to use it on OS X.

Webmonkey. A nice collection of tutorials and cheat sheets.
CSS Zen Garden. An illustration of what you can do with style-sheets.
Stop Design. I like the minimalist designs in his portfolio.
mezzoblue.com. The guy who came up with the idea of the zen garden.
WaSP. This is the Web Standards Project. They advocate authoring standards-compliant web-sites and using standards-compliant browsers.
W3C.org. The World Wide Web Consortium. They offer an (X)HTML and a CSS validator to help ensure that your sites are standards compliant. For what it's worth, the last time I checked, www.harvard.edu wasn't validated, neither for HTML nor CSS. Booo!

authored by: Bernhard Nickel using Emacs
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