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The tools I use: Mac
I’d love to have something meaty and heady to write about today, but I’ve got nothing. So, because some folks have asked for it, and because Kenny did it, how about a simple list of the tools I use on my Mac everyday and couldn’t live without? I consider myself a bit of a software minimalist—I don’t use a lot of the geeky tools many web pros do. I try to only have what I think I really need. Note that this only includes native Mac software, not web apps I use regularly. Here goes:
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McSweeney’s: Fifty Years of Popular Songs Condensed Into Single Sentences.
Brilliant.
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50 Stunning Examples of a great redesign
I’m not sure I think all of these are great redesigns, but many of them are, and they’re all interesting to look at. Nice list!
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21 Most Used Fonts By Professional Designers
No surprises, here, but it’s a nice list.
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ESPN revises top 10; puts Kansas ahead of UNC
I’ve been following ESPN’s countdown of the “Top Ten Most Prestigious Hoops Programs Since 1984-85” all week. Yesterday, they posted the final results, which had Duke at number one, North Carolina at number two, and my beloved Kansas Jayhawks at number three. Now, they’ve revised the results, nothing that “some facts for Kansas and North Carolina were incorrectly tabulated by the ESPN research department,” and moving KU into the number two spot. Sweet!
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ESPN’s top ten most prestigious hoops programs since 1984-85
I predicted my Jayhawks would come in in the top five, and maybe the top two in this list. I was disappointed to find they ended up at number three. Duke was the obvious number one, but I thought Kansas would edge out North Carolina for the number two spot. I thought North Carolina’s losing season would be the killer for them. Turns out, Kansas’ losses to Bradley and Bucknell in the tournament a few years back hurt them more. In the end, UNC bests Kansas by four measly points!
Of my other top ten predictions, I picked the top five correctly (Arizona and Kentucky being the other two). I correctly picked UConn, UCLA, and Syracuse in the top ten, but sort of forgot about UNLV and Georgetown, picking Michigan State (#11) and Florida (#21) instead. Doh! I really dropped the ball with the Florida pick! Despite being one of only five school to have two NCAA championships in the span, they also had five losing seasons, only four 20-win seasons, and not very many conference titles, thanks to being in the same conference as Kentucky.
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ESPN: The most prestigious hoops programs since 1984-85
ESPN is counting down the 50 best college hoops programs in the nation this week, and they’ve just posted the first installment (numbers 50-41). They’re using a scoring system in which schools get points for various accomplishments, such as winning the NCAA tournament, making the final four, winning their conference, and so forth. Fun stuff.
I’m anxious to see where Kansas winds up on the list. Based on the point system, I should think it’ll be pretty high — top five at least, and possibly top two. By my off-the-top-of-my-head memory, only Duke has more NCAA titles (three, to KU’s two), but Kansas has more conference championships and All-Americans. Besides Kansas and Duke, I’d expect to see UNC, Kentucky, and Arizona rounding out the top five. Syracuse, UConn, Florida, UCLA and Michigan State should also be in the top ten. That is, if my memory is anywhere near accurate.
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Fifty Most Influential Female Bloggers
A solid, well-rounded list that includes a ton of great bloggers and a handful of good friends. Via Rex, who is just a bit uptight about people not giving him credit for the links they steal from his site — even though he no doubt stole them from somewhere else. (Just teasing, buddy.)
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TIME: 50 Best Websites 2007
Newsvine, Last.fm, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Tumblr all make TIME magazine’s top 50 websites of the year.
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Top “Hip” Neighborhoods to Live in Seattle, WA
Yeah! Take that, Wallingford!
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Fimoculous.com: 2007 Lists
If you love end-of-the-year lists like I do, you have to check out Rex’s list of lists, which he’s putting together yet again this year. Thanks, Rexy!
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Pike Place Market Neighborhood is one of America’s Top 10
Last night, aboard the Washington State Ferry, I was telling Michelle that I felt like if I could live anywhere in Seattle, I’d choose the heart of Belltown, right around the Market (about 15 blocks from where we currently live). Today, that exact area makes a list of America’s Top Ten Neighborhoods.
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Forbes: The Web Celeb 25
Forbes picked the 25 biggest web celebrities. They get the list right, for the most part, but I’m not sure Jessica Rose should be number one. Still, interesting read. Notables (to me, anyway) include Merlin Mann, Leo Laporte, Seth Godin, Jeff Jarvis, and Jimmy Wales.
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List: Religious Affiliation’s of History’s 100 Most Influential People
Interesting list. Thomas Edison, reppin’ us agnostics!
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VH1: 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever
Nice list. Funny how a lot of these really bad songs are actually by pretty good artists (Billy Joel, Phil Collins, Chicago, Huey Lewis, etc.).
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Blender’s 50 Worst Things to Happen to Music
I sort of wanted to see Blender magazine somewhere on the list.
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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