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There. Is. No. Page. Fold. - Mike Towber

"Ms. Gibran, who is in her 30s, had been selling her hand-knit scarves and accessories on the site for less than a year when she decided last November to quit her day job at a copy center in Atlanta. Thirteen months later, she would seem to be living the Etsy dream: running a one-woman knitwear operation, Yokoo, from her home and earning more than $140,000 a year, more than many law associates." - Mike Towber

"I realized that the simple route definitions and structure it provided could be a great fit with jQuery/JavaScript. Not only does it allow you to respond to specific URLs, but utilizing the URL hash (#) you can create single page applications that still respond to the back button in your browser (ala Gmail)." - Mike Towber

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fake interfaces for films - Mike Towber

"Over at mBricks my colleagues have put a lot of work into the device database (we work with WURFL data and contribute back as well as we can). I took the opportunity to take a closer look at screen size trends. The data I have covers about 400 different device models sold from 2005 to today." - Mike Towber

"We’ve turned the creation of culturally meaningful games into a similarly ‘hard’ problem. It doesn’t need to be." - Mike Towber

"Book Related AskMes" - Mike Towber

Tell us about vinaigrettes, dave. - Mike Towber

"Find a place to stay." - Mike Towber

"This is a growing selection of useful classes created for mostly computational design projects, but which might be helpful for others too." - Mike Towber

analyzing the hell out of choose your adventure books - Mike Towber

"QuickUI (Quick User Interface) is a framework that simplifies the design, construction, and maintenance of web-based user interfaces. The easiest way to describe QuickUI is that it lets you write HTML as if you could create your own tags." - Mike Towber

several essays on Caravaggio - Mike Towber

"PUNK DRUMMER TRANSFORMS INTO WORLD-CLASS CHEF WITH ALARMING SWIFTNESS" by Sam McPheeters, Photos by Glen E. Friedman - Mike Towber

"Every single Capcom arcade game listed in chronological order! I think they are all here but if anyone spots any omissions then let me know if you like. I have now added an emulation compatability column which is correct as far as I am aware. Let me know if you think any info is missing or inaccurate." - Mike Towber

"A lecture from Professor Amy Hungerford on Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian" - Mike Towber

"Our UX Principles: 1. Make the most frequent tasks easy and less frequent tasks achievable. 2. Design for the 80% 3. Privilege the Content Creator 4. Make the default settings smart" - Mike Towber

obsessively boiling eggs so you don't have to - Mike Towber

"The Plumen Range is a series of low energy light bulbs that transform a traditionally uninspiring, everyday product, into a beautiful object." - Mike Towber

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"A list of unsolved problems may refer to several conjectures or open problems in various fields" - Mike Towber

slide-y faceted searches - Mike Towber

'Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility -- unmistakably modern, a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with it -- that goes by the cult name of "Camp."' - Mike Towber

"The Facebook Facelift is a self initiated project to challenge the form and functionality of Facebook. It's streamlined, structured, linear interface is more comprehendible, enhancing the user experience and absorbability of content." - Mike Towber

"Casa Mexico and The Mariposa Collection are trading names of Dextermove Limited. Based in London and Guadalajara, the company continually sources Mexican goods for Architects, Interior Designers and the General Public." - Mike Towber

"I like biographies of ordinary/non-famous people with interesting stories to tell, or stories from before they became notable. Can anyone recommend any?" - Mike Towber

"Dustin Curtis has a 0.000903% chance of dying today, most likely due to an accident (51.8%), homicide (21.3%), or suicide (16.3%)." - Mike Towber

"Dustin Curtis has a 0.000903% chance of dying today, most likely due to an accident (51.8%), homicide (21.3%), or suicide (16.3%)." - Mike Towber

"What are your favorite photo-of-the-day blogs?" - Mike Towber

"It all boils down to a Ruby script that runs on OS X only and uses OS X’s really awesome typography and subpixel antialiased font rendering. Why not tap into this to make those headline graphics? With Rubycocoa you can easily whip up a small app that draws some text, and save it into a PNG file." - Mike Towber