MLD Editing

11/03/2011

Yet another way to kill time online, for those who are into fonts: http://type.method.ac

A game that helps you learn to kern type

09/14/2011

Also potentially interesting via the "Secret Life of Pronouns" site: a tool for analyzing Twitter users' personalities: http://www.analyzewords.com/

Personality analysis from words in twitter text. This application is designed to delve into the way people write and what their tweeting reveals about their states of mind.

09/14/2011

There's an excerpt from this book in last week's issue of New Scientist (http://t.co/vNns6Oy). Check it out if you're interested in the psychology of language.

James Pennebaker is an internationally recognized social psychologist, whose research explores the connection between langugage and pscyhology. His book, The Secret Life of Pronouns, is about how the way we use common, everyday words, can reveal our personalities. By analyzing the use of function ...

09/07/2011

Someone posted this link to the Editorial Freelancers Association mailing list. It's worth a read...but then you'd better get back to work!

There are a slew of popular books and systems, from favorites of mine such as Getting Things Done to the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to the Now Habit and more, all designed to get us more productive and effective.

09/01/2011

Simon Garfield's lively, richly illustrated history of typefaces is an eye-opening — and sometimes eye-straining — read.

09/01/2011

If you're interested in learning something new, or relearning something you've long forgotten, check out the Khan Academy's free video-based classes on subjects like math, biology, economics and history. They're presented in segments that average about 12 minutes in length, which is handy.

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Despite being the work of one man, Salman Khan, this 2100+ video library is the most-used educational video resource as measured by YouTube video views per day and unique users ...

09/01/2011

Just got back from "How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love HTML5" at Microsoft's NERD Center via the Boston Tech Meetup. Just a broad overview; now I need to check out recommended sites http://diveintohtml5.org/ and http://html5doctor.com/

ive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards. The final manuscript has been published on paper by O’Reilly, under the Google Press imprint. Buy the printed Work — artfully titled “HTML5: Up & Running” — and be the firs...