Interesting Web Design Website

The Web Designer Wall looks to be a pretty cool and useful resource.

Some more good links

The domain name says it all: Coding Horror

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001072.html

How to save money on startups:

http://www.calacanis.com/2008/03/07/how-to-save-money-running-a-startup-17-really-good-tips/

Icons:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/06/35-really-incredible-free-icon-sets/

Wow. This is kind of funny:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/So-You-Hacked-Our-Site!.aspx

Web Design Links

These small JavaScript libraries can be incredibly useful. However, the swfir library is incompatible with prototype, which is the default in Ruby on Rails. Which practically means I can't use swfir, because I've used prototype, and need it's functionality.

• SWFObject: http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
• swfIR: http://www.swfir.com/
• SWFFix: http://www.swffix.org/devblog/

LDS-ity

Well, today I wasted a TON of time when I should be reading Jane Eyre for tomorrow's AP English test. I guess that's what comes having the LDS website as my homepage. They just released a new website that talks specifically about Jesus Christ. That led me to go to the LDS Tech site forums, which then led me to reading several pages on Mormon.org and then I read some pages on this Gordan B. Hinckley website and this one as well. Then this and this Thomas S. Monson website. Then I wondered about the More Good foundation, which sponsored the last four websites, and so I signed up there, then followed a link to LDS.net, and signed up there, which had this interesting news story. I also watched a small video on that website which talked about how to blog, which is what inspired me to write in mine. Now I've got to go read prepare for the test tomorrow, but first...some ice cream.

LibriVox

I just wanted to shout out to all of the mounds of readers of this blog a cool site that I've known about for a while but never really put to good use until now.

As you know, any book published before January 1st, 1923, is in the public domain and as such is fully available to all derivative works. LibriVox is a project that pulls public domain books off of a project like Project Gutenberg and makes them available to the public as audio books. Readers are volunteers recording at their home computer. The files are then uploaded and reviewed by other volunteers and then the whole project is released. I especially like the feature where you can download the book in iTunes. It opens it as a podcast and you can selectively get chapters or download the whole thing. Very handy and useful.

For those of you who aren't interested in the details, here's the gist:
Free Audiobooks!

Right now I'm listening to Jane Eyre for AP English. I can listen to it when it's dark or when I'm moving or even when I'm cooking, which is something that I have never been able to (safely) do when reading a book the standard way. Not to say I haven't done it, but it was before President Hinckley warned against gambling. I was gambling when I did it. And now I'm rambling. Good night!