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First-Time Jobless Filings Declined Last Week – NYTimes.com "The number of new claims for jobless benefits fell last week to the lowest level since early January. The drop is the fourth in five weeks. The four-week average, which smoothes fluctuations, fell to 539,750, the lowest since Jan. 17." (tags: employment economics usa) » French presidency […]

Apple Resigns From Chamber Over Climate – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com "Apple has become the latest company to resign from the United States Chamber of Commerce over climate policy." Good for Apple. (tags: apple usa politics uschamberofcommerce climatechange environment) Google tells employee: you can no longer be a Microsoft MVP – Ars Technica "Google […]

Inspector’s Report on Bailouts Says Treasury Misled Public – NYTimes.com "A Treasury official made incorrect statements about the health of the nation’s biggest banks even as the government was doling out billions of dollars in aid, according to a report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program to be released on Monday by the special inspector […]

Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns and Current Practices « Smashing Magazine "We have brainstormed on the most important design issues and asked designers across the globe what design decisions they often have to make when designing a portfolio website. We also asked designers what questions they would like answered or analyzed in our case study. […]

A big-assed post about Fireworks / journal / hicksdesign "This is a post about Fireworks. Not about Photoshop, Illustrator and which is ‘best’. This is about a frustrated love hate relationship." (tags: adobe fireworks graphics)

xkcd – A Webcomic – Surgery A Linux user trusts that the software will come along. (tags: software linux humor comic xkcd) Twitter Blog: Soon to Launch: Lists "My name is Nick Kallen (@nk) and I'm the project lead on Lists, a new feature we're testing with a small subset of users. The idea is […]

myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding "Recently, a library patron challenged (urged a reconsideration of the ownership or placement of) a book called "Uncle Bobby's Wedding." Honestly, I hadn't even heard of it until that complaint. But I did read the book, and responded to the patron, who challenged the item through email and requested that I […]

Jeffrey Way » 7 Important Performance Considerations "I was asked a few days ago about how much attention I pay to speed and performance when launching a new blog, like this one. The answer, of course, is that it really depends on the site. Obviously a site like TUTSPLUS (which I didn’t design or code) […]

The "Bulletproof" Button | Silverpop "n our recent Webinar, "Using Innovations in Email Creative to Drive Increased Engagement," Aaron Smith and Lisa Harmon of the email creative agency Smith-Harmon outlined a great technique that enables email marketers to use image-based buttons but still convey the CTA if images are blocked." Awesome. (tags: email css design […]

U.S. Job Seekers Exceed Openings by Record Ratio – NYTimes.com "Job seekers now outnumber openings six to one, the worst ratio since the government began tracking open positions in 2000. According to the Labor Department’s latest numbers, from July, only 2.4 million full-time permanent jobs were open, with 14.5 million people officially unemployed." Wow. (tags: […]