Dennis Deery

[FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts](http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/) Build your own font, online. (tags: [fonts](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/fonts) [design](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/design)) [twistori](http://twistori.com/) A scrolling view into the Twitter universe. A collection of random thoughts on the themes love, hate, think, believe, feel, wish. Kinda cool. (tags: [twitter](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/twitter) [visualization](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/visualization))

http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html http://blip.tv/file/855937

[101 CSS Techniques Of All Time- Part 1](http://www.noupe.com/design/101-css-techniques-of-all-time-part-1.html) Lots of great stuff here for web developers. (tags: [CSS](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/CSS)) [Magnatune: license music and MP3 download](http://magnatune.com/) A great online music source. They sell MP3 files with no DRM. While their selection isn't terribly broad yet, they've got some good stuff. You can pay whatever you feel the music is worth. (tags: [music](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/music) [mp3](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/mp3) [creativecommons](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/creativecommons)) [statetechmag.com - Home](http://statetechmag.com/) An online magazine focused on tech usage in government agencies.

[Best Top Graphic Design Blogs and Articles](http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/04/21/the-best-graphic-design-articles-from-34-top-design-blogs-as-chosen-by-the-authors-themselves/) A list of graphic design resources. Lots of gold here. (tags: [design](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/design) [webdesign](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/webdesign)) [NASA's top 10 views of Earth | CNET News.com](http://www.news.com/2300-11397_3-6237965-1.html?tag=nl.e433) Awesome pictures from NASA for Earth Day. (tags: [photos](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/photos))

Marie Boran of SiliconRepublic.com has posted a nice article about the OpenCoffee movement in Ireland. Yours truly is quoted in the article. OpenCoffee is an informal networking event attended mainly by people in the tech industry. It’s been a great event to help me meet people in Dublin (and other communities in Ireland), and is a great chance to get freelancers out of their bubble to meet people in the same situation as themselves.

The UW-Stout community was saddened last week by a tragic house fire that resulted in the deaths of three students. The opportunistic nut-jobs at Westboro Baptist Church, known for showing up at military funerals to tout their belief that God is punishing the U.S. for its acceptance of gays, decided this was another golden opportunity to show the world the depths of their hatred. Their four protesters showed up on the Menomonie campus last Thursday bearing placards with statements such as “God Hates Fags” and other well-known bible verses.

Citizen Wausau A really nicely-designed and well-written citizen journalism project from Wausau, Wisconsin. (tags: citizenjournalism webdesign wisconsin)

The movie 21 is based on the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich. It’s the story of a group of MIT students who spend their weekends in casinos counting cards, taking the house for big money playing blackjack. The book was a gripping non-fiction read. Hollywood looked at the story of college kids taking casinos for big money and said “Hmm, needs more drama.” Thankfully, their additions for the most part didn’t do any harm to the story.

The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time - Nerve.com While I can’t quite agree with everything on the list, it’s a pretty good collection. And I can wholeheartedly agree with their #1 pick. (tags: comedy video)

[apophenia: musing about social networks and g/local cultures](http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2008/04/10/musing_about_so.html) Some interesting thoughts about "buy local" in this era of big-box retail. (tags: [community](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/community) [socialmedia](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/socialmedia)) [Text to Speech Software with AT&T Natural Voices, NeoSpeech, Acapela, Nuance SAPI Voices™](http://www.nextup.com/) Just like it says there. (tags: [text-to-speech](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/text-to-speech))

Memorial Day Air Show from Jones Beach A pretty amazing set of pictures from the Memorial Day Air Show in New York City. (tags: airshow)

[MSDN Code Gallery](http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?TagName=LINQ) Resources for Visual Studio 2008. (tags: [linq](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/linq) [vb](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/vb) [programming](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/programming)) [Blueprint Grid CSS Generator](http://kematzy.com/blueprint-generator/) Generator for use with the brilliant Blueprint CSS framework. (tags: [css](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/css) [blueprint](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/blueprint) [webdesign](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/webdesign))

FlickrStorm. Search on Flickr with some Magic A great tool for searching and examining images on Flickr. (tags: flickr photos)

[1,000 True Fans](http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php) An interesting, much-discussed article from Kevin Kelly on the proposition of artists and others making a living from the support of true fans. (tags: [marketing](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/marketing) [longtail](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/longtail) [strategy](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/strategy)) [Fundable Online Fundraising — Welcome](http://www.fundable.org/) A site to collect funds. Interesting twist in that you can name the amount you're trying to collect for a project. Fundable collects the funds and releases them when the threshold is met. If the threshold isn't met, contributors get their funds back.

[A New Chance to Fix GDP](http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007896.html) A discussion of the use of GDP as a measure of a country's well-being. This article makes mention of the fact that a motivated President could change the way the U.S. measures itself. And we all know, what gets measured gets improved. (tags: [economics](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/economics)) [The Advantages of Keeping an Analog Work Journal | D*I*Y Planner](http://diyplanner.com/node/4534) Some good ideas about journaling at work. (tags: [productivity](http://del.

[The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers](http://www.idealist.org/en/career/guide/index.html) A free e-book for those considering a career in non-profit organizations. (tags: [nonprofit](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/nonprofit) [career](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/career)) [10 Ideas That Are Changing The World - What's Next 2008 - TIME](http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1720049,00.html) I love features like this. My favorite - synthetic authenticity. (tags: [Future](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/Future) [technology](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/technology)) [Cultural issues in implemention of social technologies](http://tarina.blogging.fi/2008/02/27/cuture-social-technology-in-london/) A great set of slides from a presentation on cultural issues in technology. Teemu Arina is an original thinker in e-learning and social technologies whose blog you should be reading.

What better way to get back in the swing of things than with this wonderful rendition of “Danny Boy” by Muppet regulars the Swedish Chef, Bleeker and Animal?

Yell if it changes - Essential SEO Tool - Get notified of changes A web service that will notify you if a web site is updated, it’s Google ranking changes, or if it gets more incoming links. (tags: web)

[PGP Corporation - Products - PGP Whole Disk Encryption](http://www.pgp.com/products/wholediskencryption/) Encrypt your computer's hard-drive. Might be good to consider this if you have to experience the United States' TSA at any point. (tags: [Encryption](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/Encryption) [pgp](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/pgp)) [31 Remarkable Drupal Powered Websites | Six Revisions : Web Development and Design](http://sixrevisions.com/design-inspiration/31-drupal-content-management-system-cms/) Some nice examples of the power of Drupal. (tags: [drupal](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/drupal) [webdesign](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/webdesign))

Dinner in the Sky Wow! Have dinner at a table suspended in the sky from a crane! (tags: restaurant cool)