Paper Forest, a plethora of links to folded-paper stuff. Some cool/weird folded paper things out there.

Even better than Google, it’s warpedvisions search

Why Frameworks Suck
“Frameworks hurt sharing. I’d really like to give you this fork Jimmy, but you’re gonna need a knife and plate to use it. The framework checks out all your girlfriends for you, the framework won’t let anyone dirty get through, the framework will wait up until you get in, the framework will always find out were you’ve been, the framework keeps you healthy and clean. Frameworks embrace, extend and hold on to greedily.”

Ghost Town
“Radiation will stay in the Chernobyl area for the next 48.000 years, but humans may begin repopulating the area in about 600 years - give or take three centuries.”

Architecting CSS

A nifty dynamic Ajax table.

A good set of Digital Photography Tutorials.

Crap cleaner, a utility for Windows (of course).

I was playing with Flipbook, a nifty Flash animation tool, and I decided to look at CinePaint (a more featureful animation tool). Of course, building CinePaint made me think about platforms and appications:

If I had a Mac, 
    I'd have paid $300
    It would just-plain-work,
        and it would be fun
If I had a Windows box, 
    I'd find a hack (maybe buy it later)
    It would mostly work,
        and it would hurt my brain
I have a linux box: 
    I wasted an evening (but it was free)
    And it works ...
        but will take me half a year to learn

Linux is painful on one hand and liberating on the other. I have (after building and installing several libraries) a commercial-grade animation tool. It has no useful documentation, an obtuse interface, and more features than I’ll ever use.

But it’s Free.

I’ll learn how to use CinePaint one day, and will write about it. Maybe I’ll be able to save others the pain of liberation, or maybe I’ll be motivated to write a simpler tool. If there were only more time …

Hitting the High Notes
“There was so much griping among the students about how much work was required for this class that Professor Eisenstat started asking the students to report back on how much time they spent on each assignment. He has collected this data carefully for several years.” (via JoelOnSoftware)