adamrice

http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

Perhaps trying a little too hard, but still comprehensive and clever

https://archive.org/details/bicyclestricycle00shar

This is the classic text on bike technology, now over 110 years old. It's available via Google Books as a PDF download.

http://www.bestwpthemes.com/the-best-wordpress-themes-of-2008/

Live editable design grid. Does not seem to generate CSS, but pretty slick.

http://www.hughie.com.au/products/

http://gridr.atomeye.com/

http://www.austinlizards.com/stupid_texas_song.html

By the Austin Lounge Lizards. Heard this on the radio. Totally hilarious.

http://newthinking.bearingpoint.com/2008/11/20/govtwit-directory/

list of government agencies on twitter

http://www.thegridsystem.org/

Lots of resources for designing on a grid

http://www.pin1yin1.com/

Gives pinyin readings for chinese characters.

http://www.amelia.ne.jp/userTop.do

Japanese translation marketplace

http://www.austincomputerworks.org/museum/

Run by Goodwill. Want to visit someday.

http://tapplastics.com/

Spotted at Maker Faire. Finally bookmarking

http://www.robundo.com/

Makes the Adana desktop letterpress. Not sold outside Japan.

http://letterpressprinting.com.au/index.htm

Lots of historical information about early letterpress machinery

http://www.nationaljournal.com/campaigns/2008/wh08/promises.htm

Will assess promises vs performance in the Obama white house

http://www-mit.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-jlreq-20081015/

An extensive overview of Japanese page layout. A few goofs, but useful.

http://www.panix.com/~footage/harpers.pdf

Harper's article on the Prelinger Library (which is online after all). Parts of this read like something out of a David Foster Wallace story.

http://home.earthlink.net/~alysons/library.html

Harper's ran an article on the Prelinger Library about a year ago, which I just read. I'd heard of the Prelinger Archive before, but never imagined it was the work of a couple of countercultural autodidacts. Fascinating

http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/10/22/origami-inspired-folding-bamboo-house-by-ming-trang/

I want a truckload of these. Beautiful, ingenious.

http://xylocopa.com/content/mad-science-blocks

Gwen and I bought a couple of these at Maker Faire. They're great

http://www.translatedfiction.org.uk/show/feature/Home/Translation-Hahn-blog

A translator is blogging about the process of translating a book.

http://basekit.com/

Seems to be a web-based development environment for web apps. Freaky.

http://www.austinstreetknowledge.org/

Wiki of Austin Knowledge by McChris

http://www.runkeeper.com/

iPhone-based bike computer

http://www.trailguru.com/ui/tour/iphone.php

iPhone-based bike computer

http://beta.typd.in/index.html

Lets you type in Japanese on a computer with no IME installed (but you do need Japanese fonts). Pretty freaking amazing.

http://280slides.com/

http://cavorite.com/labs/presentacular/

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

http://howwikipediaworks.com/

A book about Wikipedia