In My Own Words: Why Unions Matter

by ryan on March 29, 2011

Bit of history: I am not your typical leftist-liberal big-union person. In fact, I have issues with a lot of union activities, mostly with union leadership and the ridiculous amount of (perceived and/or real) corruption at the top. Union leadership has, from (…)

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links for 2011-03-28

by ryan on March 28, 2011

Quick tip: make your own iPhone usability testing sled for £5 (tags: usability rig) Mobile Usability Testing Rig for m.cdlib: California Digital Library (tags: usability) Filming rig for mobile device usability test recording (tags: usability) About the Binding: Perfect Bound? (…)

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links for 2011-03-27

by ryan on March 27, 2011

Have any of you ever found a great PDF online that really helped you with something? Let's share interesting papers, articles, educational books etc. I hope this takes off… : AskReddit (tags: PDF color cool illustration photoshop programming training reddit)

links for 2011-03-26

by ryan on March 26, 2011

HD Wallpapers: Quick View | Dizorb | HD Wallpapers and Design Resources (tags: desktop wallpaper)

Can we call them Fascists yet?

by ryan on March 26, 2011

Quoting directly from Reddit user Veteren4Peace: Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism Powerful and Continuing Nationalism – Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols (…)

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links for 2011-03-23

by ryan on March 23, 2011

tesseract-ocr – An OCR Engine that was developed at HP Labs between 1985 and 1995… and now at Google. – Google Project Hosting For reasons unspecified (tags: OCR Imaging) secure.pdcnet.org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/pdc/bvdb.nsf/mysubscriptions?openForm (tags: philosophy)

links for 2011-03-15

by ryan on March 15, 2011

Royalty-Free Stock Video, Sound Effects and Music | Pond5.com (tags: stock, media, images, video, soundeffects)

links for 2011-03-09

by ryan on March 9, 2011

HOWTO: Native iPhone/iPad apps in JavaScript (tags: iphone webdesign)

links for 2011-03-08

by ryan on March 8, 2011

Heart of Mary: TUTORIAL: Messenger Bag with Zip Top Closure (tags: pattern sewing) Do your own Messenger Bag « ikke tikke theo (tags: pattern, sewing) WAVE – Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool (tags: accessibility webdesign web)

Use Cases

by ryan on March 7, 2011