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Linked List: February 8, 2007

Thursday, 8 February 2007

Tim O’Reilly on Yahoo Pipes ★: Neat idea from Yahoo — sounds sort of like Automator for web services.
The Onion: ‘Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?’ ★: Absolutely 100 percent not safe for work. But also 100 percent hilarious.
Other Examples of Prose-Based Site Navigation ★: Megnut and Beanology. Neither of which is really quite the same as Happy Cog’s, though.
BBAutoComplete 1.5 ★: Michael Tsai has added a bunch of new features to his free auto-completion utility for BBEdit (and any other scriptable text editor/word processor), but the one I like best is that it now optionally lets you use the system-wide spelling checker as a source for completions. I’d been thinking about writing a hack to do this myself; procrastination wins again.
Zeldman on Happy Cog’s Redesign ★: I think it’s safe to say that Happy Cog is one of, if not the, best web design agencies in the world. This redesign of their own site shows why. Jeffrey Zeldman’s write-up captures the essence of the thinking behind it. The most clever and original idea is that the site’s primary navigation interface is a sentence; i.e. the description of what Happy Cog does is itself the top-level interface to the site.
David Weiss: 10 Years of MacBU ★: David Weiss looks back at the creation of Microsoft’s MacBU:

From a industry level, when MacBU was created, everyone was saying, “Write once, deploy everywhere.” and in a way, there’s some of that still with the “web as a platform” being push today. The creation of the MacBU flew in the face of all that and said, if you want to be excellent on the platform, you’ve got to treat it seprately, not as an afterthought.
Pixelated Art Comprised of Sticky Notes to Celebrate MacBU’s 10th Anniversary ★: Well-done; the app icons looks great.