Links for Thursday, July 20, 2006

• Creating Passsionate Users: What a Graphic Can Tell You – “*If a dot stood for a day, what would my life look like as a set of dots on the screen? *“
• Stephen King: Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully – in Ten Minutes – “When you sit down to write, write. Don’t do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.“
• The Dominus Shadow – “Well there you have it. You may get an idea why I like this car so much. Its probably the best thing in SL.“
• Virtual Suburbia: Little House on the Sandbox – “The family can literally occupy the house, get a feel for the spaces, and suggest changes based on their first-person evaluation. A Second Life dream representing a Real Life artifact, instead of the other way around.“
• Gopher Now – “Hungry? Find restaurants open now.”
• Maciej Ceglowski: I Cannot Speak Your Crazy Moon Language – “I will simonize my battle tank.“
• Jack Herrington: Five Common PHP Design Patterns – “It’s difficult to demonstrate the value of patterns using small examples. They often look like overkill because they really come into play in large code bases.“