Posts tagged “culture & society” 

Last week, Steve Jobs resigned and Twitter launched a resource for quickly building prototypes and apps. Also: solar power keeps getting cheaper and airports are going to the bees.

In this week’s link round-up, we bring you the reasoning behind Typekit’s font-loading strategy, two new CSS grid systems, a fantastic mashuip of Peanuts with Jaws, and the story of a woman ejected from a Houston bar for tweeting something the General Manager didn’t like. Happy reading!

From rethinking grid layouts to an HIV test that fits in your wallet and costs less than $1, we discovered a lot of great links last week.

Last week the U.S. teetered on the brink of economic collapse, but there were lots of goodies to think about and share too.

From losing 7 years of your digital life to squeezing the entire world into Texas, we found some amazing links last week. Enjoy.

As we near the end of our 10th year (we can hardly believe it’s been a decade already!), we wanted to take a few moments to thank you—our clients, our partners, and our friends—for continuing to challenge, inspire, and employ us.

From the plazes photostream.

I just finished reading Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed and it really opened my eyes. Clevery subtitled “How (Not) To Get By in America,” the book is a chronicle of Ehrenreich’s “adventures“ in survival as a member of the low-wage workforce that serves our meals, cleans our homes, and cares for our elderly.

So, upon returning home from SXSW and cracking open the new issue of Seed, I read something I wish I’d known before “ Having sex is the best way to prepare for a speech.”