Outrageous
"My name is on a software patent. It happened during my brief tenure at IBM. The patent is not yet issued (as I understand it, issuance may take years) and does not show up in USPTO or Google Patent Search. But it will, someday." - via Daring Fireball
Posted May 15th, 2007 at 8:53 pm by Ryan
Y Combinator in JavaScript
Just when you think you know something about recursion and meta programming, someone forwards you a link to this.
Posted May 15th, 2007 at 8:46 pm by Ryan
Top 20 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites May 2007
Amazing how quickly the visitor numbers taper off by #5. Stumbleupon's popularity is surprising to me too, I found it very unituitive despite that the idea seemed like such a good one. I've got to be in the minority there though. I had never even heard of half of these sites.
Posted May 15th, 2007 at 1:10 pm by Ryan
5 Techniques for Enhancing Contrast in Digital Photos
There are a few more I would add, but this is a great overview. The author comes close once, but doesn't really overdo it on any of the demonstrations.
Posted May 15th, 2007 at 1:04 pm by Ryan
Hypatia Sans Pro
An absolutely beautiful new typeface that was released last month. One of the things that is most striking about it to me is how timeless it feels. With designers this good you would think Adobe could design a sensible download/purchase flow.
Posted May 10th, 2007 at 3:59 pm by Ryan