Recent Links: December 05 to December 08

Introducing Bacon Salt, a new gourmet seasoning blend with all of the taste of real bacon without the fat, the calories or even the meat (yes, it’s vegetarian).

A short breakdown of useful search operators for use in Leopard’s Mail.app

20 Self Promotion Ideas for Graphic Designers & Freelancers (Free or Almost Free).

“userstyles.org is a collection of styles that puts you in control of the appearance of websites and of Mozilla applications.”

“A style for Google Reader that styles it like Mail.app. Its not trying to be original or ‘better’ than the default theme, it’s just trying to make it look like a Mac OS X app!”

Walks through compiling Flex apps on OS X via Textmate

A Flex 2 bundle for Textmate.

“Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnected, and more distributed. Many of us in the web creation world are embracing and promoting web standards – both client-side and server-side. Microformats, standard apis, and open-source software are key building blocks of these technologies. This model can be described as having three sides/legs/arms/spokes – pick your connection: Information, Identity, and Interaction.

DiSo (dee • so) is an umbrella project for a group of open source implementations of these distributed social networking concepts. or as Chris puts it: “to build a social network with its skin inside out”. “