Growing up (like I ever did) one of the things I considered pursuing is architecture.  I took a drafting class in high school and liked it a lot and have always dreamed of designing my own home (some day).  The folks over at design-milk.com have a fantastic architectural section that I have been a fan of for some time.  I save almost everything I find interesting and useful so when I saw the architecture section of their site I instantly fell in love.  The only thing I didn’t fall in love with is the ability to see their entire post.  You have to view a post, it only loads half the page, and then click to get the entire post, click back, click the next post, and repeat that process for as many times as you want to keep viewing their content.  As you can see I’ve been a fan for a while now and have been collecting URLs for over a year to refer to.  If you love architecture, you are going to love the pages below but be warned you will lose at least an hour from your life as a result.

Fiercewhenroused.com is a domain name I’ve had for over a year now and it is my new primary domain on one of the two servers I have web content on.  I think I heard the term “fierce when roused” from Tim Ferriss on one of the podcasts/vidcasts I was watching and thought it was an awesome term and thus domain name.  I also thought that term fit my personality pretty well, extremely mild mannered until I need to defend myself and then watch out!  You mess with the bull…you get the horns!  At some point I have some plans to do something with the domain but for now it is what I use to surface a lot of my miscellaneous sites and files.

Hope you enjoy this site aggregator…

http://fiercewhenroused.com/webDesign/scripts/sitesScroll/homeDesign1.html

http://fiercewhenroused.com/webDesign/scripts/sitesScroll/homeDesign2.html

http://fiercewhenroused.com/webDesign/scripts/sitesScroll/homeDesign4.html

http://fiercewhenroused.com/webDesign/scripts/sitesScroll/homeDesign5.html

http://fiercewhenroused.com/webDesign/scripts/sitesScroll/homeDesign6.html

I made a bookmarklet which prompts for a keyword to search my website.  Why would you ever want to us it?  You probably won’t ever have a need but I will because I use my site as a second brain to refer to things I’ve previously posted almost daily.  Drag this bookmarklet/link to your browser’s toolbar: JeremyPerson.com: Search if you want to try it. Pretty nifty eh?

Stanley Hainsworth has been creative director at Nike, Lego, and Starbucks—all brands that have become iconic through good design. He just finished designing the new Gatorade bottle, too. Hainsworth clearly has a remarkable eye for style, but he insists that the key to creating a brand that attracts fans, that people love, is telling the company’s story.

Hainsworth says that companies like Apple have a persona. “You could describe what Apple is as a person, because of the personality they’ve created,” he explains. “So when we work with tech startups, the first thing we have to figure out is their story—what sets them apart in the marketplace.”

Now at the helm of Tether, his own design studio and retail space in Seattle, Hainsworth keeps looking for new challenges. “When I left Starbucks, people thought I’d want to work someplace really hip, like Diesel or Apple. I told them I wanted to work with Microsoft and Wal-Mart—two great American brands that have never told their story well. They both have incredible stories, if you think about the startups that they were at the time—it’s unbelievable. Bill Gates, what he went through, and his story: it’s never been told well. They’ve never used it to their advantage. They’ve become a product company with no soul.”

“Great companies read your soul,” says Hainsworth. “They give you something you didn’t even know that you needed.”

More info: Tether web site: http://www.tetherinc.com/

Web development in Linux is sometimes a little difficult since it lacks native support for Adobe’s Creative Suite.  I do have Macromedia’s MX suite installed from 2004 since it works fine with Wine/Linux.  I like Bluefish which works on Windows and Linux but it lacks a good FTP client.   This morning I just found Komodo which has a nice visual editor interface because you do your code editing in the top frame and can preview the output in the bottom frame (and update it instantly by pressing cntrl +s).

Adobe announced the upcoming release of CS5 with the ability to preorder it today.  Look for downloadable trials in the next thirty days.  Besides the killer new PhotoShop features Dreamweaver now has WordPress integration.  See the full video of the announcement.