Irish Rose Consulting

Custom laser-etched Moleskine notebooks. Pricey, but very cool!

A good collection of Photoshop freebies.

A presentation from the founder of the Presentation Zen blog on better presentations. Lots of good tips here.

A good talk on how to create a successful startup - including a surprising plug for benevolence.

Cool stuff.

The first comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920s. Data from decennial censuses prior to 2000 support nearly 150 maps and figures, providing context and an historical perspective for many of the topics p

A blog showing ingenious gadgets from Africa. Basic needs-type stuff, but they get the job done.

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.

An interesting API from Yahoo for dealing with real-world locations.

Software to make your own comics. I might try this for graphics for my next presentation.

Design a protective vinyl skin for your laptop or MP3 player. Cheap!

An article from Malcolm Gladwell on the process of invention. Very cool. I want to do that kind of stuff when I grow up.

The CIA’s manual on intelligence analysis. Some good info here for consultants and others that must take in a lot of information.

Print your own graph and note paper.

Get streaming news video from TV stations around the world.

A whole batch of patterns for displaying information.

A foundation that’s new to me. “Supporting Science - investing in the big questions.” I like the tagline.

An easy online way to track gas mileage. Like the integration with Twitter.

Good, free Dreamweaver training vids from WebAssist.

Back in March I attended the wonderful BlogTalk2008 conference in Cork. Check out the slides and some videos from the conference here.