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I also enjoyed the Quora digests until one day the links stopped going directly to the threads but all pointed to a feed page. I assumed this was another dark pattern to boost pageviews and unsubscribed.

I've created a site just like this as a side project. Especially relevant with Halloween right around the corner:

http://carboncostume.com/

And since you mentioned it, the Driver:

http://carboncostume.com/driver/

Piggybacking on this, GlyphSearch is a tool for searching Font Awesome and several other popular icon fonts.

http://glyphsearch.com/

Thanks for the heads up about Font Awesome More. Looking to add any other libraries that are in heavy use out there.

I made this to scratch an (admittedly very mild) itch I've had for some time. But I'm betting some of you have had the same itch.

I posted some details about GlyphSearch here: http://thomaspark.me/2013/11/glyphsearch-improving-the-searc...

Spooky, by pure coincidence that video uses the same book (different edition) for their demo that my blog post does for 1DollarScan:

http://thomaspark.me/2012/12/digitizing-books-on-the-cheap-a...

I found that equally baffling. I threw together a page that displays the best (according to Adobe[1]) webfonts of the bunch: http://jsbin.com/itayep

[1] http://html.adobe.com/edge/webfonts/#edgeWebFonts

Relevant to this thread, since the goats-vs-sheep study is brought up so often to add authority to the claim, Caspersen et al. were not able to repeat Bornat & Dehnadi's results. They discuss their findings here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1268845

I'm not color blind, but I see the same thing. Shading creates the effect of the boxes being different sizes even though they're not. Here's a screenshot:

https://twitter.com/thomashpark/status/238665017145303040/ph...

I wrote about this issue and ways to overcome it a little while back (with pictures!): http://thomaspark.me/2011/10/making-menus-escapable/

Here's a nice demo of a similar library called Scrollorama: http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrollorama/

Skrollr is noteworthy because it's significantly smaller (5.5kb vs. 94kb+jQuery), and makes use of HTML5 data attributes for notation.

Here are Bootstrap templates for Photoshop and Fireworks that were released a week back:

http://www.bentdesignstudio.com/v2/2012/03/twitter-bootstrap...

Here's a fun one: Replace LESS and SASS with MORE.

http://morecss.org/

It's easy to tweak the Bootstrap defaults, but trying to keep things as cohesive as the defaults can lead you down the rabbit hole of dependencies. BS 2.0 is a big step up, but I've found that playing only with the values in variables.less doesn't cut it quite yet.

I've tried to hit a sweet spot with Bootswatch (http://bootswatch.com), keeping it a quick-start solution for hackers while adding variety to the defaults.

Yes, it's targeting 2.0. Both the CSS and LESS files will be kept in sync with Bootstrap. So you won't need to compile anything, just download the latest swatch CSS.

Cool project! I ended up doing most of it by hand. I started by just playing around with variables.less, but it wasn't giving me the variety I wanted, so I added an extra less file for more custom stuff.

You can check them out on the gh-pages branch in GitHub: https://github.com/thomaspark/bootswatch