Victor Loux — bookmarks

Direct aid, subsidies, tax breaks – the hidden welfare budget we don’t debate | Politics | The Guardian

theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/07/direct-aid-subsidies-tax-breaks-the-hidden-welfare-budget-we-dont-debate

Vast sums are handed out in corporate welfare, and official silence is skewing the debate, so the public don’t know where billions of their own taxes are going

City cycling in London is a joke - mux' blog - Tweakblogs - Tweakers

ssj3gohan.tweakblogs.net/blog/11985/city-cycling-in-london-is-a-joke

One Shall Pass

oneshallpass.com/

How to End Homelessness - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/the-best-way-to-end-homelessness/398282/

The first-ever large-scale study on the topic finds that permanent, stable housing can be more cost-effective than shelters.

J. Hornig - JOHO's

johos.at/

What's Wrong with Cultural Appropriation? These 9 Answers Reveal Its Harm — Everyday Feminism

everydayfeminism.com/2015/06/cultural-appropriation-wrong/

Dressing up as Pocahontas, eating burritos, practicing yoga – what exactly counts as cultural appropriation, and what's the big deal? You've gotta read this to find out.

slick - the last carousel you'll ever need

kenwheeler.github.io/slick/

Steve Wozniak on why he doesn't have an Apple Watch | afr.com

afr.com/brand/boss/steve-wozniak-on-why-he-doesnt-have-an-apple-watch-20150707-ghfxwx

Sometimes it's not just the ones that have academic-type knowledge to answer questions, sometimes it's the ones who have actually built projects.

Testing hypotheses suggested by the data - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testing_hypotheses_suggested_by_the_data

Hypotheses suggested by the data, if tested using the data set that suggested them, are likely to be accepted even when they are not true. This is because circular reasoning (double dipping) would be involved: something seems true in the limited data set, therefore we hypothesize that it is true in general, therefore we (wrongly) test it on the same limited data set, which seems to confirm that it is true.

Babun - a Windows shell you will love!

babun.github.io/

StoriesOnBoard - The User Story Mapping Tool

storiesonboard.com/

Turn your flat Product Backlog into a User Story Map and see where is your project heading.

Petite liste de ressources utiles pour le JV — Medium

medium.com/@_Pol/petite-liste-de-ressources-utiles-pour-le-jv-9f4a1c3d710a

Refills - Type Systems

refills.bourbon.io/type-systems/

Components and patterns built with Bourbon and Neat.

Apiary

apiary.io/

Build beautiful APIs—Collaborative design, instant API mock, generated documentation, integrated code samples, debugging and automated testing.

La butte, combine épatante du jardinier bio et paresseux - Rue89

rue89.nouvelobs.com/2015/07/05/butte-combine-epatante-jardinier-bio-paresseux-260042

Design is about values — Mike Press — Medium

medium.com/@MikePress/design-is-about-values-b116e7e12b67

Design makes a statement of what we want the world to be like. And in doing so, it is a political activity. Values are political, values express preferences about what problems are worth solving, and in whose interests they are solved. Values determine the degree to which design liberates or empowers the individual and those communities that make up the wider society.