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Boing Boing

September 11: Found artifacts at the 9/11 Museum – Boing Boing

A photo essay from the run-up to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum's 2012 opening, showing personal objects donated to its collection and the stories behind each. The items include Chief Joseph Pfeifer's fire helmet (his firefighter brother Kevin died that day), Linda Lopez's blood-stained shoes from her escape down the South Tower stairs, Gennie Gambale's wallet found on the Marriott roof, a rag doll Brian Van Flandern found in the rubble, and the recovered helmet of firefighter Kevin Prior. It also covers a Port Authority officer's hats, an NYPD officer's hardhat and shovel, and the ironworker helmet of Larry Keating, who helped with the Last Column removal. Each caption focuses on one person's experience of the attacks, rescue, or cleanup, and on how the object found its way home or to the museum.

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kiskolabs.com

Kisko Labs

Kisko Labsin, suomalaisen ohjelmistokehitysyhtiön, palvelusivu eikä varsinainen artikkeli. Se esittelee kolme palvelua: Discovery (idean nopea validointi ennen isompia investointeja), Delivery (ensimmäisen version rakentaminen käyttöön otettavaksi digituotteeksi) ja Durability (jatkokehitys ja ylläpito kiinteällä kuukausihinnalla). Referensseinä ovat mm. B7Asunnot (hallintaportaali neljässä kuukaudessa), Vapaus (työsuhdepyörien vertailutyökalu), Sitowise (Voima-palvelu), Graani, Howspace (yli 60 000 aktiivista käyttäjää) ja Puhti. Lisäksi sivulla mainitaan yhtiön podcastit, investointilaskuri ja yhteydenotto Antti Salosen tai Ida Männyn kautta.

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Instructables

Instructables

ZURB

Bounce – A fun and easy way to share ideas on a website

This is the retirement page for Bounce, ZURB's tool for annotating a screenshot of any webpage with resizable notes and sharing the link so others could add their own comments and send it back. It recaps the six-step workflow (grab a screenshot, add your name, make notes, save, share, and let others reply) and quotes press describing it as a collaboration whiteboard. The page ends by directing users to Helio, ZURB's successor product for getting on-demand feedback from thousands of users with real-time reports.

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noupe

40+ High Quality Free Icon Sets in PSD Format

What was saved appears to be a category index page from a business-tech site, not a single article. It lists teaser snippets for roundup pieces under "Essentials," "Business Online," "WordPress," and "Development," including best AI form, quiz, and signature generators, eight WordPress SEO plugins, a guide to MVNE platforms for companies selling phone or IoT services, twelve low-code platforms to watch in 2026, and nine AI helpdesk tools for small businesses. No argument or report is developed here, since each entry is cut off after a sentence or two, so to find what you meant to keep you would need to reopen the specific roundup you were after.

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www.managementexchange.com

The Art of Impossibility | Management Innovation eXchange

A New Year's resolution essay arguing that companies should only pursue goals their rivals consider impossible, since merely doing the possible has become worthless in a commoditized economy. It uses RIM's dismissal of the 2007 iPhone as its parable of organizational timidity, and guesses that most firms spend about 80% of their effort explaining why ambitious things can't be done and only 5% pursuing them. The author says industrial-age efficiency has left firms stagnant and calls on managers to give their hidden renegades the time and tools to attempt the impossible, with creativity as the key new competency, a point he develops in his book.

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Boing Boing

How the first image of the whole Earth was taken – Boing Boing

A short Boing Boing item marking the 45th anniversary of NASA's first image of the whole Earth from deep space, taken in 1966 by Lunar Orbiter 1. It quotes Kevin Kelly on how remarkable the feat was: a fax-quality picture produced by an all-analog contraption with moving mechanical parts that shot the photo, developed the film, scanned it and transmitted it back, all in zero gravity and a vacuum. The rest of the saved page is unrelated sidebar teasers and sponsored deals, so the Earth-photo anecdote is the only substance worth keeping.

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Angus Thompson

landscape and garden design - angus thompson design

The saved page is the homepage of Angus Thompson Design, an award-winning landscape and garden design practice based in Oxford with projects across the UK. It describes a collaborative approach, working with clients, architects and interior designers to make multilayered gardens that bring out each site's character. Beyond that, the captured text is mostly navigation menus (Projects, Objects, Granular Chelsea, Notepad) and a "Featured Works" list naming three projects: The Cart House, Glass, Concrete & Stone, and Rockwood. It argues no case and reports no news, so it is worth keeping as a portfolio and contact reference for the firm.

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Nieman Lab

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NPR's tech staff held its first "Serendipity Day" in May, dropping their regular work for a day to build whatever they wanted, as long as they presented it afterward. It's a team-based, planned-ahead alternative to Google's 20 percent time (which NPR judged too costly and too individual), modeled on Atlassian's "FedEx Days" and Dan Pink's argument that autonomy, mastery, and purpose drive motivation. Thirty employees produced 25 usable ideas, including CMS improvements, new donation models, and a tool for disambiguating newsmakers with the same name. The organizers plan to make it quarterly and have learned to bring enough food.

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contrastrebellion.com

Contrast Rebellion - to hell with low-contrast fonts!

A manifesto-style web page campaigning against low-contrast, light gray body text, arguing that sites sacrifice readability for looks and that designers overlook the problem because they don't read their own pages the way visitors do. It insists that dark, high-contrast text can look just as good, and backs this with the W3C accessibility contrast minimums, readability and reading-time experiments, the decline of contrast sensitivity with age, and Jakob Nielsen's findings that screen reading (especially on mobile) is harder than print. It ends with a call to join the cause of using typography to make text readable.

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Broken Sidewalk

Event: Hear about the South Fourth Street Retail Plan | Broken Sidewalk

A short event notice from Broken Sidewalk: the Downtown Development Corporation is holding a public discussion of the South Fourth Street Retail Merchandising Plan on Monday, August 29 at 6:00 p.m. at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville. Rick Hill, the plan's author and president of Village Solutions, will walk through the report's contents, and the post notes his firm's earlier East Market Street planning work, which came with similarly polished renderings. The piece contains no analysis of the plan itself, so it's useful mainly as a record of when and where the presentation took place and who was behind it.

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noupe

Websites Shouldn't Look The Same Across Different Browsers…Here Is Why

A guide for web designers and developers to hand to clients who expect their site to look identical in every browser, arguing that pixel-for-pixel consistency is both impossible and undesirable. It says the impossibility comes from differing browser vendors and standards, plugins like ad blockers, user preferences, varying screen sizes, and the mobile web. It adds that the attempt is a poor idea because usability matters more than appearance, hacks bloat code and risk validation, and forcing sameness can make a site look dated. The closing pitch to clients is that accepting variation saves time and money, still allows consistency in function, and signals innovation.

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ZURB

Pattern Tap : Organized Web Design Collection of User Interfaces for Inspiration and Ideas. The CSS Gallery Alternative - Pattern Tap

This is the homepage for ZURB, a design consultancy with 25 years of experience, pitching its services in AI experience design, complex websites, and product innovation, with a free web audit as the hook. It backs the pitch with case studies and metrics: University of Oregon (28% higher engagement on target KPIs), Indiana University Online (applications up over 30%), Hulu Press (usability scores above 90% after a redesign and new CMS), and the Xurrent rebrand (56% jump in positive homepage sentiment). It's a marketing page rather than an argument, worth keeping as a reference for how an agency presents measurable design outcomes, especially for higher-ed and complex-site redesigns.

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