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From the service's description:

Bear CSS is a handy little tool for web designers. It generates a CSS template containing all the HTML elements, classes & IDs defined in your markup.

(via Jack Mottram)

There aren't enough words in the english language to describe my nerd love for this project. There are plenty of little tutorials that I bookmark (via pinboard of course), however this one has the potential for me to follow through.

(via Cory Doctrow)

I'm a little late to the party, but something this good to be republished and remembered.

Marco Arment:

fanboy: a derogatory term that means someone who is blindly and irrationally devoted to a product that I believe is inferior to what I bought when faced with a similar choice, and whose opinions and arguments can therefore be completely disregarded.

I agree with Fred Oliveira's argument, there is something to be said about the massive stores of information that is currently unavailable to the person whose data it is. I want to expand the sentiment that there is something merely valuable about this information and the connections between it, otherwise, you may get the impression that its sole value is for something like, say, advertising (which it certainly is). I wish to contend that this dark data has greater sentimental, historical, and anthropological data for personal and future educational usages. This is a segment of sociological data that is largely unreachable, yet constitutes a huge portion of our lives. It therefore deserves to be accessible to all and not just search indexing algorithms.

I totally agree with Shawn's post. Although, I do want to point out that there is an implicit assumption being made by those who endorse having things that "define themselves", simply that you must have the ability to choose. Those of us with the privilege of choice must not loose sight of the people that simply cannot afford these choices.^[1] If you judge everyone based on what stuff they choose to 'represent' themselves, then you will undoubtedly be judging some unfairly.

I'm a sucker for this kind of thing, I love to catch glimpses of how people actually work and compare them to my own. I considered the Kaweco Sport myself but I already have a number of solid fountain pens at my disposal. One of these days I'll have to get around to posting my own pocket dump.

While being very light in actual tech content, it does serve as a very tiny look into the large advances in accessibility that the computing industry has made. Optimistically the custom computer systems created for the rich and famous is a foreshadow of the possible paradigms of computing that the common person may have access to in the near future.

(via David Pierce for The Verge)

I haven't dabbled too much into music production and creating music isn't an immediate priority for me. That said, I do like to investigate my options. Started by a number of ex-Ableton engineers this software looks colourful, user friendly and will be available across Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms.

(via Peter Kirn)

Rogie King has launched his digital market place and there's some real gems in there. Frankly, I can't wait until he releases his Lino Icon Set.