Hello! I love satellite imagery and topographic maps so I made several wallpapers with those gorgeous pictures.

If you make a joke, and people get really offended, it's almost certainly because you violated this rule. People don't get offended randomly. Explaining that "it was just a joke" doesn't help; everyone knows what a joke is. The problem is that you used a joke as a means of being an asshole. Hiding behind a dummy or a stage persona or a bot won't help you.

On tweeting less in 2015.

1. It’s almost impossible to compare past and present because of lack of data. 2. Art has always been a terrible way to make money. 3. It’s less about there being "no money" and more about where the existing money flows.

The CSS property vertical-align has some seemingly mysterious rules at work. This article forces them to show their true color.

As it happens, this is not the first time this bird has yodeled its way into popular music.

Any band who goes on Letterman for the next month, at least—like the one that was on last night—has been completely screwed to hell by this one.

‘Papers, Please’ in particular is recommended.

Vacation is cheaper than severance and training.

Over the past two weeks, I have fluctuated between anger and grief. I feel surrounded by Black death. What a privilege, to concern yourself with seeming good while the rest of us want to seem worthy of life.

On writing, being wrong, and understanding that maybe, just maybe, you’re not crazy–that what you think is happening, is happening. Hazlitt contributor Anupa Mistry speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic’s famed national correspondent and author of The Beautiful Struggle.

Selecting a design partner is a pain in the ass. Designers can be difficult. And the process is a mystery. And let’s face it, designers do a crappy job of explaining it. But for those who have to do it, getting it right can mean the difference between their organization doing well and going under. I want to help you do it well.

A playable post on how harmless choices can make a harmful world. These little cuties are 50% Triangles, 50% Squares, and 100% slightly shapist.

What happened on Saturday, August 14, 2014 was not a single display of police violence, it is the reaction to a place's history with racism. Ferguson is making us think about what is evident. What is evident is not special at all. It is what makes up every reality in the United States of America. Yes, the status quo is so racist that People of Color are simply demanding to be relevant.

The American justice system is not broken. This is what the American justice system does. This is what America does. America employs the enforcers of its power to beat, kill, and terrorize, deploys its judiciary to say that that's OK, and has done this more times than anyone can hope to count. This is not a flaw in the design; this is the design.

And you cannot ask a people brutalized and oppressed, told their lives are worthless and their deaths are their own fault, to respect the institutions and people that uphold those systems of terror and violence.

Taylor Swift is one of the rarefied 0.01 percent of modern musicians whose charisma and talent, combined with an exorbitant promotional machine, can sell a million copies of an album in a week. She assumes this holds for all musicians in the same way that a wealthy politician tells lower middle-class citizens that they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and achieve the American Dream, too.

Corporate Twitter accounts appropriating black vernacular. "Fuck the flow, y'all jackin' our slang. I seen the same shit happen to Kane."

Secular graces.

I can’t use macrodelivery because this is a landmarked building and the coöp board (a terrible institution of ancient and decrepit millennials utterly committed to the folkways of their protoUAV lives) refuses to apply for the dronepad easement.

I called Missi Wooldridge, the Executive Director of a nonprofit drug testing and harm reduction agency called Dance Safe, because I was curious about the surge in ecstasy-related deaths at music festivals in the last few months despite a social history of drug use that predates the 1960s.

Mike Hadreas’ latest album, ‘Too Bright,’ isn’t just an angry gay record—it’s a complex web of emotions of what it means to be queer. And it’s one that needs to be heard.

Perch helps you to provide better solutions to your clients by providing elegant and simple content management. Design and build your sites the way you like best, then Perch steps in adding the CMS, forms, blog or events calendar functionality that you need.

Kirby is a file-based content management system – easy to setup, easy to use, flexible as hell.

Free HTML starter themes and templates for Bootstrap - up to date for Bootstrap 3! An even faster way to develop websites in Bootstrap!

What artists have cited other mediums or technological assemblages than their native one as inspirations on their creative style?

Clay Shirky on Ello, ~Club, and Meatspace. These services aren't a new way of creating FB-like value. They're a new way of being valuable in a world that already has Facebook.

Digital glitch geometry animation.

The Web started out as a way to publish and share documents. It is now an operating system: a big, digital sensory apparatus that can tell you about your phone’s battery life, record and transmit your voice, manage your e-mail and your chats, and give you games to play. It can do this all at once, and with far less grand of a design than you might assume.

Here, a 42-year-old man from Canada describes his life as a zoophile attracted to female horses.