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A few things have me tremendously excited lately.

editease

In my continuing quest to become even moderately javascript literate I stumbled onto an amazing plugin that creates a tiny CMS using jquery. Pretty impressive, I love lightweight stuff like this. Crappy name though, needs some work.

RGB Color Profiles

I grew up ignorant of things like color profiles. To this day I’ve never had any instruction in graphic design, and certain things are still rather mysterious. I’ve now crossed RGB color profiles off that list when I found this consise and easy to read post on how to accurately reproduce color when exporting for the web.

The Wisdom of Crowds

No I’m not reading the book. I just heard about the book on a RadioLab podcast, but it sounds great. It’s all about harnessing the power of the masses to make accurate and effective decisions. It’s on my list.

Multi Theft Auto

Gaming took a giant leap forward just a short while ago when some cool dudes got together and built a platform to create a multiplayer version of GTA San Andreas. I can’t wait to form a posse of thugs and cause some damage.

Lou Dorfsman

I’d never heard of Lou Dorfsman until I read this post about his passing, but I recognized his work instantly. A great source of inspiration.

I’ve fallen completely, some would say hopelessly, in love with jquery. With the near 100% penetration of javascript it seems like it’s finally time to start using the stuff everywhere and the folks at jquery have ever-growing list of reasons why.

My favorite at the moment is the jquery based 3d Carousel that mimics the mac cover flow feature. It does what it sounds like it does - allows you to take a number of images and turn them into a rotating 3d Carousel. The mouse interaction is a little sluggish but is sure to get better in the near future.

Next up is the very simple WYMeditor. I started out writing html and over the last few years have really gotten into CSS. I love the idea of xhtml, but some of it just doesn’t seem very human if you get my drift. The WYMeditor is designed to allow you to produce chunks of code that won’t gum up the gears of your W3C validation within the comfort of a friendly little text editor.

And finally another simple and yet extremely useful jQuery plugin - tableHover. When it comes to interfaces it’s nearly always the simple, nearly unnoticeable things that really make a difference between a good interface and a stop-what-you’re-doing-and-call-your-mother interface. tableHover presents you with a number of options to focus user attention on one aspect or another of a table. You can set parameters for columns, rows, columns + rows, etc. Very customizable and fairly straight forward to implement as well.