Ryan Joy (atxryan)

Be agile. "Pyra was started to build a project-management app, not Blogger. Flickr's company was building a game. Ebay was going to sell auction software. Initial assumptions are almost always wrong."

"Tsutomu Yamaguchi … was just stepping off a tram when the atomic bomb Little Boy was dropped over the city just 3 kilometers away. … Yamaguchi spent a fitful night in an air raid shelter before returning to his hometown of Nagasaki the following day. Yamaguchi was once again 3 kilometers away explaining to his supervisor how close he came to death just a few days before when the second bomb, Fat Man, was dropped."

Excellent index of Strobist blog's articles and how-to's on setting up off-camera lighting.

Interesting service that allows for you and others the ability to watch YouTube videos in synch and discuss in real time.

Excellent approach to writing articles and tutorials for the web.

atxryan: RT @pat_ramsey: Cheap Trick headlining SXSW? What’s next? SXSW interactive showcasing Netscape 6? SXSW film premiering Pulp Fiction?

Packed full of features, but also very large for providing such specific functionality.

Excellent source of visual inspiration from eras past. Thousands of vintage advertisements scanned and organized by date and topic, going all the way back to the 1840s and covering every decade in between.

Tipsy is a jQuery plugin for creating a Facebook-like tooltips effect based on an anchor tag's title attribute.