links

Recent discoveries, sites that I think are interesting or particularly well-designed, plus the sites of friends and colleagues.

interesting sites

		Shifting Baselines An ugly site on a beautiful topic: the endangered health of the world’s oceans. Regularly updated with new information, and lots of good resources if you are interested in the fate of 85% of the world's habitats...

		Blue Ocean Institute Oceanographer Carl Safina's Web site (he of Song for the Blue Ocean). A straightforward, elegant site that reminds me that the Web should be about interesting and useful content, not stupid Flash tricks.

		Stopdesign Two visual favorites, Stopdesign and Mike Industries (below). Reliable graphic inspiration, and overwhelming proof that “standards” sites don't have to be constricted and dull. Douglas Bowman of Stopdesign also did the beautiful Adaptive Path site.

		Mike Industries More visual inspiration, from Mike Davidson, another designer using Web standards tools effectively without any obvious constraint upon his visual creativity.

		Web Teaching Guide site Friend and colleague Sarah Horton's companion site to her book Web Teaching Guide, which grew out of her experiences supporting faculty sites at Dartmouth. The Web Teaching Guide was named an outstanding professional and scholarly book by the American Association of Publishers.

		XVIVO David Bolinsky is one of my oldest friends, and David runs the world's premiere 3D medical animation studio here in Connecticut. The site is full of QuickTime videos of David's work.