January 19, 2005

Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting

Lots of neato stuff

coolhunting.com

Cool Hunting

David Choe

davidchoe.com

David Choe

January 18, 2005

Cardstacker

Bryan Berg stacks cards incredibly well.

cardstacker.com

A man stacking cards

Michael Wolf Photography

Incredible photography of Hong Kong Architecture

photomichaelwolf.com

Hong Kong Density

January 17, 2005

A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright

Something recommended I should read.

houseofanansi.com

Cover of a book called A Short History of Progress. The dust jacket has an illustration of a monkey on a stool.

January 14, 2005

log.nikhil.io

Previously called "A Free Orange", but Nikhil is still collecting and sharing thoughts online! 🍊

log.nikhil.io

Nikhil

January 13, 2005

Apple’s Tipping Point

Macs for the Masses

flic.kr

Apple's Tipping Point

January 12, 2005

WHATEVERLAND

A photoblog by Archie FlorCruz

whateverland.com

Squarespace

Blogging Evolved

squarespace.com

squarespace

The Word Spy

The Top 100 new phrases

wordspy.com

Wordspy

Glorious Noise

Reviews and news of music. Rock and roll can change your life

gloriousnoise.com

Glorious Noise website grab from 2005

Weightshift Memo

Naz used to share thoughts about design and other aesthetic ephemera. This blog is retired but now he's got a new personal website up with essays.

nazhamid.com

weightshift website

Daring Fireball

John Gruber writes real good. Mostly about Apple things, but not always.

daringfireball.com

Daring Fireball logo

January 11, 2005

Write Till You Drop

Thoughts about writing by Annie Dillard

archive.nytimes.com

Grab of a New York Times article about writing

KEXP 90.3 FM

Seattle radio station

kexp.org

Old KEXP website

craigslist: cincinnati

online community

cincinnati.craigslist.org

craigslist 2005 for Cincinnati

Indeed.com – Job Finder

Nice database of jobs

indeed.com

indeed logo and search box

allmusic

Great for discographies and bios, horrible because of login and overall sluggishness

allmusic.com

grb of All Music website in 2005

Artists Rights 101

All artists need to know how to protect their intellectual property rights, including copyrights, rights of publicity or personality, and moral rights.

arsny.com

Artists Rights logo with circular red letters

Autoblog

Obsessively covering the auto industry

autoblog.com

Autoblog

January 10, 2005

Cartype

A website featuring a comprehensive collection of emblems, car company histories, logos, reviews of typographical & graphical applications, design features and just about anything that is car related.

cartype.com

cartype

PixelDecor

Patterns, wallpapers, icons

pixeldecor.com

Pixel Decor

Jimbo.Info

A guy named Jimbo in DC. Blogging about life. Thinking through things. Previously a park ranger.

jimbo.info

Joe. My. God.

Stories about self-loathing, self-loving, family, drugs, sex, disease, and disco.

joemygod.blogspot.com

Joe My God blog byline

The worst album covers in the world index

According to the Guardian Unlimited

theguardian.com

Worst album covers

January 9, 2005

4096 Color Wheel Version

Choosing web smart colors

ficml.org

January 6, 2005

jetPSA.com

A tribute to PSA Pacific Southwest Airlines

jetpsa.com

PSA Museum

January 5, 2005

The Man in Blue Form Layout

Form Layout techniques

themaninblue.com

A screengrab of a website from 2005

Ten CSS tricks

evolt.org

A logo of three isometric cubes

A List Apart

All about design, development, meaning of web content, and attention to standards.

alistapart.com

A List Apart

January 1, 2005

5ives

Merlin's Lists of Five Things

5ives.com

Fives website grab

December 22, 2004

A Whole Lotta Nothing

Matt Haughey's home for thoughts and links

a.wholelottanothing.org

Screengrab of a weblog

December 21, 2004

Jason Zada

jasonzada.com

Jason Zada

December 16, 2004

Jaredigital

Design & Illustration

jaredigital.com

Jared web design

December 13, 2004

woxy.com

indepedent, alternative music streaming

web.archive.org

Woxy.com grab of old website

December 6, 2004

HTML Dog

HTML and CSS Tutorials, References, Articles and News

htmldog.com

HTML Dog

December 5, 2004

Fimoculous: Best of 2004

Best of the best, 2004

fimoculous.com

Fimoculous

December 4, 2004

Cup Stacking Video Clips

freak stacking video

speedstacks.com

Kid stacking cups

December 2, 2004

Thighs Wide Shut

humor blog

web.archive.org

Thighs Wide Shut

goldenfiddle

goldenfiddle.com

Golden Fiddle weblog

November 30, 2004

Rockfish

by Blur Studios

vimeo.com

Rockfish

November 28, 2004

Eugene Mirman

Comedian

eugenemirman.com

Eugene Mirman's first website

November 27, 2004

Grandaddy Nature Anthem

Most excellent music video

youtu.be

Nature Anthem

November 24, 2004

Nobody asked me, but…

House of Representatives debate featuring 213 white guys in blue suits, identical shirts and red ties

cnn.com

CNN

November 23, 2004

Mom’s Cancer

A comic strip about incurable cancer in the family.

momscancer.com

mom's cancer comic

I don’t crack the door too far for anyone who’s pushing too hard on me

A touching and uplifting post from Dooce

dooce.com

Dooce 2004

Dooce

Witty and real. Dig Heather Armstrong's voice and fortitude.

dooce.com

Dooce 2004

Stopdesign

Design thinking

stopdesign.com

Stop Design Blog

1976 Design Blog

CSS and more from this Dunstan Orchard. Plus a view of the weather.

1976design.com

1976

Asterisk

D. Keith Robinson retired Asterisk some time ago, but is blogging again intermittently on his new personal site

dkeithrobinson.com

Asterisk

Hicksdesign

Jon Hicks writing about design and life.

hicksdesign.co.uk

Hicks Design weblog

Stereogum

Music tidbits, links and more

stereogum.com

Stereogum

Jalopnik

Autoblog aggregate

jalopnik.com

Jalopnik website circa 2004

Sean Bonner

Writing, design, and miscellaney

seanbonner.com

Sean Bonner's website 2004

Planet Dan

Funny guy

planetdan.net

Planet Dan

Defective Yet

Funny shit

defectiveyeti.com

Defective Yeti

The Morning News

Aggregate online magazine

themorningnews.org

The Morning News

Ten Years of My Life

Daily Photoblog of Matthew Haughey

web.archive.org

10 years of my life matt Haughey's website

Joystiq

Videogame aggregate

joystiq.com

Joystiq weblog