links for 2008-02-11

Tommi found a couple of nice trick on wordpress this weekend; this one is naked wordpress theme so that it’s easier and faster to kick off a custom theme design.

(tags: theme wordpress development)

via Tommi (again) – let’s you replace any html text by a flash file generated on the fly which let’s you use custom not standard typefaces…

(tags: font reference sifr webdesign typography)

nice writing about a Moleskine competitor

(tags: moleskine sketchbook hardware self_organisation life_hack)

Via Markus – another rant against FaceBook after the one send by Adriana, makes me wonder why not to start a kind of workshop to teach people how to get the same thing as FaceBook with their own tools and intelligence

(tags: internet networking privacy social)

it seems like electricity is magic!

(tags: electricity flickr neon light)

Laxton fields seems to be the last common land in the UK after the enclosure; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

(tags: map common)

This term marked the end of the Common Land, the open field system in the UK

(tags: article History politics wikipedia)

WordPress can displace or pass over one or more initial posts which would normally be collected by your query through the use of the offset parameter.

(tags: wordpress development custom_query)

to check; it seems to crash with WP2.3.3 but it might be just a problem of header

(tags: flash fonts php plugin sifr typography wordpress)

another Flash text replacer for WordPress

(tags: sifr typography wordpress plugin flash)

Father of the modern Chemistry; he established that matter cannot be created or destroyed, although it may be rearranged (Conservation of mass Law). This evening, Amandine used it very nicely to explain her work.

(tags: chemistry History)