Recent Links: November 14 to November 17

A beautiful serif companion to the rockin Meta family, designed by Erik Spiekermann, Christian Schwartz and Kris Sowersby

Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s technology platform.

“Open source Mac utility Quicksilver isn’t just an application launcher – it’s a comprehensive keyboard interface Launching applications and documents…check out top 10 favorite Quicksilver plug-ins, and how to set them up.”

“Invitastic™ is our tiny website for inviting friends and family (and even enemies and strangers) to events.

There are lots of things you can’t do here…create a social network, plan party activities, split the tab for the event, figure out carpool arrangements, find recipes for Mai Tais, and more. There are pretty much a limitless number of things that Invitastic doesn’t do.

Hopefully however, when it comes to letting a bunch of people know that you’re having a party or gathering, and finding out if they’re coming or not, we do our job exactly as you’d hope.”

“A poster art promotion and inspiration portal, or visual blog, for designers and artists to submit their latest art and posters for sale.”

This article shows you how to protect your WP-powered blog from a few simple weaknesses.

“Together lets you keep everything in one place. Text, documents, images, movies, sounds, web pages and bookmarks can all be dragged to Together for safe keeping, tagged, previewed, collected together in different ways and found again instantly.”

A very interesting essay on the impact and need for UI changes and the expectations of and reactions to a market to those changes.

“I learned a lot of good public speaking practices from theatre school. They come in two flavours–content and technique…”