Here's a nice demo of a similar library called Scrollorama: http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrollorama/

Skrollr is noteworthy because it's significantly smaller (5.5kb vs. 94kb+jQuery), and makes use of HTML5 data attributes for notation.

Also, strictly for parallax, here is jQuery.parallax which has a much classier demo: http://stephband.info/jparallax/

Here are Bootstrap templates for Photoshop and Fireworks that were released a week back:

http://www.bentdesignstudio.com/v2/2012/03/twitter-bootstrap...

Thanks for that!

Here's a fun one: Replace LESS and SASS with MORE.

http://morecss.org/

It's easy to tweak the Bootstrap defaults, but trying to keep things as cohesive as the defaults can lead you down the rabbit hole of dependencies. BS 2.0 is a big step up, but I've found that playing only with the values in variables.less doesn't cut it quite yet.

I've tried to hit a sweet spot with Bootswatch (http://bootswatch.com), keeping it a quick-start solution for hackers while adding variety to the defaults.

Yes, it's targeting 2.0. Both the CSS and LESS files will be kept in sync with Bootstrap. So you won't need to compile anything, just download the latest swatch CSS.

I didn't see a target bootstrap version at http://bootswatch.com/spacelab/bootstrap.min.css

Hence, I assumed that we had to compile the less files. Also, not everyone will be willing to move to the latest version of bootstrap.

It might be easier to let github manage the multiple versions with a download page similar to this https://github.com/wycats/handlebars.js/downloads .

Personally, I don't mind doing the extra step of lessc if I can get exactly what I want. Thanks for the effort.

Cool project! I ended up doing most of it by hand. I started by just playing around with variables.less, but it wasn't giving me the variety I wanted, so I added an extra less file for more custom stuff.

You can check them out on the gh-pages branch in GitHub: https://github.com/thomaspark/bootswatch

To the contrary, I'm looking at this very much from a non-power user's perspective. I think a ribbon is a reasonable application here, showing copy, paste, etc. by default. But look at all of the other functions located throughout the chrome. As the "lambasting it" link says, many of the options that are visible by default are used much less than 1% of the time, according to Microsoft's own data. "Invert selection"?

But more to the point is how the user research data is turned into a redesign in a seemingly mechanical way. "The button was used 10% of the time, so let's make it bigger next time." Without careful consideration, this can be a big mistake, and can miss opportunities for helping users with their tasks at a deeper level.

Thanks. As a newcomer to Ubuntu, I didn't realize how new the dock was. It seems straightforward and useful to me. But I'm sure there's controversy with it.

Highlighting was done with Omnigraffle. It took some time find a good way to depict the angle of escape. I ended up rotating a quarter circle and cropping the edges off. Hacky but does the trick.

I'm not familiar with any term to describe this, but "angle of escape" seemed fitting.

Quite likely a setup and not some psychological effect. He's relied on similar tricks in the past, such as using video effects to "predict" the lottery [1] and a fake casino set under the pretense of calculating the trajectory of a roulette ball [2].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG-5qebwflA See drdirs's comment. [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVThCpMPON0 See mazotu's comment.