“Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines provides authoritative information on the theory behind the Macintosh “look and feel” and the practice of using individual interface components. This book includes many examples of good design and explains why one implementation is superior to another.”

“High-quality hand-made art-like products.”

“What is inconspicuous consumption? It’s about deconstructing the details of consumer culture — details that are either so weird or obscure that we’d never see them, or so ubiquitous that we’ve essentially stopped seeing them. This can mean anything from a bizarre canned good, like sauerkraut juice, to a beautifully designed light-industrial object that we’ve always taken for granted, like the Brannock Device (that gizmo they use to measure your shoe size).”

“At FreeDrive you can upload, store, retrieve, and share 20 megabytes of any type of data for FREE — documents, spreadsheets, zip files, databases, image files, MP3s — whether it’s for school, work, personal, or just for fun.”

“Using the three phonetic query functions, you can find words that rhyme with, almost rhyme with, or sound exactly the same as a certain target word. Using the two semantic query functions, synonyms and ’semantic siblings,’ you can find words that approximate or have the same meaning as an intended concept.”

“An archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. A traveling salesman from Springfield, Missouri, Hunter took his reel-to-reel tape recorder into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks, preserving the heritage of the region by recording the songs and stories of many generations of Ozark history.”

Holy crap this is a big project. “Join Matt Frondorf as he drives from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge, his camera clicking at every mile.” That makes America 3,304 pictures wide.

“DevSearch is the first search engine created for the people who make the web. It indexes only sites that are relevant to making webpages. You’ll save yourself time because you can search all of the major web developer sites from one easy-to-use interface.”

“TracerLock can monitor search engines for you and notify you by e-mail when a new instance of a search term is found. For example, if you tell TracerLock to monitor search engines for the word ‘Peacefire,’ TracerLock will e-mail you when new pages appear on the web containing the word ‘Peacefire.’”

“The Complete Conflict Compendium (or the C3) is a collection of things that will crash your Mac, or make it act strange. Apple’s research indicates that most of the time, when a Mac is crashing, it is because something is conflicting with something.”

“At FreeDrive you can upload, store, retrieve, and share 20 megabytes of any type of data for FREE — documents, spreadsheets, zip files, databases, image files, MP3s — whether it’s for school, work, personal, or just for fun.”

“VizAbility™ is a modular ‘visual thinking kit,’ designed to help you discover, explore and improve your natural visual abilities.”