Tony Stephens / Simian Design

These are my delicious links for November 18th:

• prettyGallery - by Stephane Caron - A nice image gallery script written in jQuery.

These are my delicious links for November 17th:

• 50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography - I could stare at these types of photos all day long. Just amazing.
• 5 Tips for Better jQuery Code: jQuery, Tutorial - Nice list of better jQuery techniques. I wasn't aware of some of the items in the list.
• Nudibranchs - Gorgeous photos of these weird sea creatures.

These are my delicious links for November 14th:

• A Better Place for a Banff Canoe Ride - Yeah, that's not bad. I'd go there, probably be pretty OK.
• The world's most super-designed data center – fit for a James Bond villain - This underground data center has greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and can withstand a hit from a hydrogen bomb. A newly opened high-security data center run by one of Sweden’s largest ISPs, located in an old nuclear bunker deep below the bedrock of Stockholm city, sealed off from the world by entrance doors 40 cm thick (almost 16 inches).
• Amazing Home.. - I LOVE this house. LOVE it. I love the sheer wilderness. The Views. The stark simplicity.

These are my delicious links for November 12th:

• 18 Rules the Best Web Developers Follow - A nice collection of base rules Web Developers follow, or at least should follow. The only one I might disagree with is the one about IE 6. Determine your own baseline from your logs, you can see what the overwhelming browser is. Sometimes it might be IE6, other times not.
• neuron-galaxy.jpg (image) - AMAZING photo comparing a mouses brain cell to the universe. Freakily similar.
• Are You Making These 10 CSS Mistakes? - NETTUTS - A nice listing of Ten Common CSS Mistakes.

These are my delicious links for November 12th:

• New York City Map of SuperHeroes - A great map drawn up by a fan of where the superheros live and work.

Primatology.net, a new favorite site of mine, has this fantastic article on this Orangutan from Borneo.  This Orangutan is special because he’s using a tool.  Not just any tool though.  We’ve seen primates use tools before.  But this Orangutan is SPEAR-FISHING.

Gurd Schuster is the researcher that took this photo.  He did mention that while this orangutan learnt this method from watching fishermen along the river, he hasn’t fully mastered the skill yet.

“Although the method required too much skill for him to master, he was later able to improvise by using the pole to catch fish already trapped in the locals’ fishing lines”

I, for one, welcome our Spear-Fishing Orangutan Overlords.

These are my delicious links for November 9th:

• Photoshop in real life. - Amazing recreation of what a real life photoshop workspace would look like.

An amazing, homemade, underground fortress is for sale.  It’s in Blaine, WA.  He built it over the course of 20 years, working it 45 feet under his house!

The fortress has over 1600 sq. ft. of living area, plus hundreds of more square feet of passages and secrets rooms. It was all hand dug over a 20 year period, and all the walls were constructed with a small electric hand cement mixer. There are 3 ft concrete walls, using 5-bag cement (20% denser than regular cement). Not only are the walls thick and dense, but the finishing work is amazing quality. These walls keep it a constant 60F degrees year round. It is so well insulated that even one small space heater can heat all 1600+ sqft of fortress space in a few hours. The fortress has amazingly fresh air in it with an incredible air ventilation system that pulls air outside and brings fresh air in, leaving no moldy or musty smell that you commonly smell in basements.

It’s listed as a two-story house with four stories underneath. Go through the photos, showing the secret doors, the many levels, the amazing finish work.  I’m stunned.  I really want to live here.

These are my delicious links for October 30th:

• Flickr Photo Download: jap_garden_canopy -

These are my delicious links for October 23rd:

• Beautiful Examples of Moleskine Art - Gorgeous pieces of art. Well worth taking a gander.
• Giant spider eating a bird caught on camera - Telegraph - Oh my God. A Spider is eating that bird. *shudder*