Clayton Ferris

Nick Campbell has started a series of five second motion graphics challenges. Latest related blog post here. Submissions are being done via vimeo channels. This is such a great idea, kind of an Illustration Friday for motion artists.

See previous week’s challenges here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

update: uploaded mine

iPhone SDK Examples offers up some quick “recipes” showing how to get common tasks done using the iPhone SDK. Handy starting point for new iPhone programmers.

via iPhoneFlow

Stimuluswatch.org was built to to help the new administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to account for the taxpayer money they spend. We do this by allowing you, citizens around the country with local knowledge about the proposed “shovel-ready” projects in your city, to find, discuss and rate those projects. These projects are not part of the stimulus bill. They are candidates for funding by federal grant programs once the bill passes.

I find it amazing that Tucson alone has submitted projects totaling over $528M already.

I stumbled across a great tip at simplicidade for easily using growlnotify (and libnotify on Linux) to notify whenever a potentially long terminal command finishes.

Pretty Loaded is a gallery of Flash preloaders. Each preloader preloads the next preloader.

via Jason Santa Maria

Not sure how this one slipped by me, but ilovetypography.com has published a nice roundup of the best fonts of 2008

Nice and robust grid builder.

via Subtraction

Will Larson posts on the benefits of ObjC 2.0.

Having really jumped in to Cocoa only recently it is interesting to see that many of the thing I have carried over from Ruby are only recent additions by Apple.

A nice way to create rails app templates, rg, was just committed to the rails core. Great way to set up your own personalized bort.

via rubyrailways