Feb 28
2008
∞ Jon Hicks shares some sketches and other images for the icon he created for Clearleft’s secretive new project, Silverback.
∞ Thomas Hawk lists his top ten sites to photograph during a visit to San Francisco. If you check out my San Francisco collection on Flickr, you’ll notice that I made it to a few of these. I guess, I’ll have to save the others for my next visit.
Allow vs. Enable
“To me, software which enables customers to do something leaves them in charge, whereas software which allows assumes that the developer is in charge.”
—Nick Bradbury: Allow vs. Enable
∞ A fantastic behind the scenes look at the making of a cable car. And here’s the related Flickr photoset.
Feb 27
2008
All Possess Alike Liberty of Conscience…
“The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.”
—George Washington: Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island