Link Drop (Weeks 40-43)

This is a rather long link drop because I've been doin stuff.

• Skeleton: Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development Skeleton is a small collection of CSS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone.
• A Former iPhone UI Designer Defends Apple's Fake-Leather Design Philosophy | Co.Design: business + innovation + design The other side to minimalism and a reason to learn the word "Skeuomorphism."
• American Red Cross Bicycles for Volunteers With the holiday season coming soon, I'm looking for great gifts for people that don't want to receive things (I'm one of those), but who would love that the gift be given towards something that helps improve the state of the world. For a cyclist, I think a gift of a bike for a Red Cross volunteer is a fantastic idea. Maybe the pedaler in your life would agree?
• Mona Lisa with pure CSS · CodePen
• Creative Market Buy and sell handcrafted, mousemade design content.
• 16 Pixels: For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake | Smashing Magazine | Smashing Magazine
• Ergonomic Adjustable Desks | Height Adjustable Work Table Commercial grade adjustable standing workstations.
• Buddha 9 To 5: The Eightfold Path to Enlightening Your Workplace and Improving Your Bottom Line: Nancy Spears: 9781598690538: Amazon.com: Books Curious to know what this is about.
• The Flat Design Era — LayerVault Blog LayerVault talks about embracing flatness and taking stand against the beveled and gradiated aesthetic of real world surfaces in design for the screen.
• Endless Icons | Free icons and creative stuff | Page 2 Min Kim's showcase of icons.
• Some advice from Jeff Bezos by Jason Fried of 37signals Jeff Bezos: [P]eople who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. What trait signified someone who was wrong a lot of the time? Someone obsessed with details that only support one point of view. If someone can’t climb out of the details, and see the bigger picture from multiple angles, they’re often wrong most of the time.
• How do our favorite tech companies make money?
• Getting sprightly with SASS | Erskine Labs Using SASS/SCSS for sprites.
• Makisu ~ CSS 3D Dropdown Concept People want to make CSS act like Flash I guess.
• CSS3 structural pseudo-class selector tester Helps you understand how the nth-child, nth-last-child, nth-of-type and nth-last-of-type CSS3 selectors work. Uses the native browser algorithm, so you're out of luck if you're on IE.
• phpconsole.com - A new way to work with PHP and JS
• Simple Grid A lightweight responsive design grid-only framework.
• Stripe: Payments for developers
• Gephi: Open source graph visualization and manipulation software "Like Photoshop for data." Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs. Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Gephi is open-source and free.
• Retinafy your web sites and apps — ebook by Thomas Fuchs Thomas Fuchs' ebook on how and why to target and use high resolution graphics for retina displays.
• Easy retina-ready images using SCSS - (37signals) How to retinafy images and bundle the normal and retina rule into single stylesheet using @import image-2x with SCSS.
• adobe/source-code-pro · GitHub Fixed width font for terminal, editors, web displayed code.
• Pixelivery Pixel State Tees
• Coding Horror: Todon't "If you can't wake up every day and, using your 100% original equipment God-given organic brain, come up with the three most important things you need to do that day – then you should seriously work on fixing that. I don't mean install another app, or read more productivity blogs and books. You have to figure out what's important to you and what motivates you; ask yourself why that stuff isn't gnawing at you enough to make you get it done. Fix that."
• Irving Harper talking about paper as a versatile medium From Herman Miller's Why Design series.
• Adobe Edge Web Fonts Library Adobe teams up with Typekit to provide a free web font service served by Typekit. The free Adobe and Google Web fonts will be available on the service, including Source Sans and Source Code.