Tuesday Link Roundup: American Cannibal Edition
- Symphony CMS. Symphony is a pretty nice looking, free web publishing system powered by XML and XSLT. I can’t wait until I have some free time to try it out.
- IDSA Mideast Conference ‘08 (Columbus, OH)
Art + Science, the Mideast District Conference in Columbus, Ohio will explore the dichotomy of art and science, the similarities of the two, and the way we as designers pull them together to create new and better products and experiences.
- Pure CSS Data Chart. I haven’t peeked under the hood to see if/how this differs from Eric Meyer’s CSS Chart, but it looks nice.
- Viktor Schreckengost, Cleveland Industrial Designer Dies at 101. I’m embarassed to say I didn’t know who he was until a friend told me of his death. Definitely a huge loss for Cleveland the the design community as a whole.
- Instapaper. For when you find things on the web you want to read but don’t have time to. Not sure I’d use this, a “to_read” tag in del.icio.us works just fine for me, but this is an interesting idea too.
- You’re Not a Programmer, We Won’t Pay You That Much. The bane of a front-end developer’s existence.
- Evolution of a Header. A great look inside Garrett Dimon’s design process.
- And lastly, American Cannibal, perhaps the most absurd documentary I’ve ever seen. Actually the documentary itself was mostly well done, but the subjects were so over the top it took me 30 minutes into the movie to realize it wasn’t a spoof. From the IMDB entry:
A brutal Survivor-style reality show produced by the publicity-obsessed promoter of the Paris Hilton sex tape was shut down suddenly in September 2005 when a contestant was critically injured. Closely following the train-wreck production and the industry that spawned it, this film documents the human cost of popular entertainment.
