Mollie Johanson's quirky DIY bookmark project. This opens up a lot of ideas for interesting placeholders and should inspire some neat projects for kids and adults.
Syndicated
Andy's Most Useful Knots
I've had this desire at the back of my mind to re-learn a lot of the knots I've forgotten since my days as a Boy Scout. I'm rather embarrassed that I remember so few of them actually. Andy's collection of knots looks like a great place to start digging in.
Bonus: knots look like a fun way to keep my hands busy while watching TV.
Creating a Table of Contents in OmniGraffle with AppleScript
I've been waiting for this functionality for a very long time and I truly hope the folks at Omni include this as a feature in an upcoming release. Until then, we can thank the fine people at UNITiD for this AppleScript.
PaintbrushJS
"A lightweight browser-based image processing library".
JavaScript's come a long way. This library provides a wealth of image manipulation capabilities, including tints, blur, noise, sepia and grayscale – all handled by the browser. What a sweet way to ensure you don't have to reprocess your images the next time you redesign your site.
Omnigraffle Sitemap Generator from Sitemap.xml
A handy little script that will walk through a site's sitemap.xml and map it out in OmniGraffle.
Pictos
Using a font instead of images for icons is an interesting concept, which ensures that the icons are infinitely scalable and that the presentation can be easily changed on the fly without any extra page weight (even more so with CSS3).
I am curious where the tipping point lies in terms of page weight and render speed – 3 icons used, five…15? Either way, this is a really good start down an innovative path.