Announcing Losses of Life, a new project

David Herrera,

My friend Chad Puterbaugh and I opened a new Web site this week called Losses of Life. We started preparing it after thinking about news coverage of last year’s Fort Hood shootings. Our goal is to try to treat more equally than do mainstream media incidents in which people die in large numbers.

Read a more complete description from the site below. If you can, please take a moment to visit lossesoflife.com, tell us what you think, and let your friends know about it.

People die in large groups around the world almost every day. Losses of Life’s fundamental assumption is that these deaths are noteworthy no matter where the victims lived. Because most mainstream news media do not follow that assumption, we want to fill in some of the gap.

We attempt to do so by listing incidents from the previous week in which more than five people died. Each incident receives the equal treatment–same font size, same structure–delineated only by the number of deaths involved.

Why I love Carbon Copy Cloner

David Herrera,

Carbon Copy Cloner, which backs up your computer, is one of my favorite OS X apps.

Why? Not just because it works (although it does), but because it tells me in understandable language what it’s about to do:

Carbon Copy Cloner

Need a good backup app for your Mac? Try it for yourself.

Getting Web design critiques

David Herrera,

You may have noticed below that I’m looking for feedback on this site’s redesign. I still am, but it’s great to know that there’s a community of designers out there who are willing to offer critiques, too. All you have to do in return is look at some of their sites. Web Designer Depot rounds up some of the options.