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March 14, 2008

Man, think this might be really good: Speed Racer

October 27, 2006

Run Firefox 2.0 and 1.5 side by side | Muffin Research Labs by Stuart Colville. For both Windows and Mac.

October 27, 2006

In Drug Test - A Cautionary Tale, Stuart Stevens works with a doctor to see what it’s like to use performance enhancing drugs.

June 10, 2006

headphono.us - A blatant ripoff of the beautiful and near-iconic design of John Gruber’s Daring Fireball. Says John: “The only change made to the CSS was to remove my name and copyright statement.”

Note: This site is proudly formatted in Markdown and I’m a proud supporter of Gruber’s efforts at professional blogging. Update: The owner of the site has changed the site and apologized to dawn.

June 10, 2006

The Vintage Mac Museum - Lots and lots of screenshots of 9" Mac screens. I’ve always felt that System 7 on a black and white screen was one of the best computer experiences ever.

April 11, 2006

Flickr user Lockwasher creates rayguns, rockets, and robots from scrap metal and the occasional thermos.

April 9, 2006

CAPL: Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon is an online dictionary of German (only about a thousand words) that shows images with the words. More on the about page.

February 22, 2006

Google introduces a new page creation tool, Google Page Creator (not Poogle?), in beta, natch. Free, 100MB storage, templates, super simple. Quicker to start than Blogger (for me). Which brings up a question? Where will this fit with Blogger? Just a different market? Will Blogger be the premium service and this the ultra-basic?

February 9, 2006

Chameleon: an icon set from SimpleBits that changes color. Similar to the set linked below, but with a couple of significant differences:

  • You buy a single set of icons with one color behind them (you can buy a set of six pre-selected colors, which would probably be more than adequate for most sites)
  • There are 70 icons instead of 121 (again, probably more than adequate for most uses)
  • The icons themselves are actually nicer. Not to dis Some Random Dude, because the Clearbits icons are okay, but Dan’s icon designs (all of them, not just these) are really, really swell and, I dare say, worth the money.

February 9, 2006

Clearbits is a set of 121 small icons for web sites and web applications. The background color and shape are configured through CSS. Pretty nice. I think something similar using PNG translucency would work well, too, especially if IE7 gets that stuff sorted out.

February 9, 2006

defective yeti: Shares Of ACME Corp. Plunged In After-Hours Trading. This not funny, except that it is hilarious.

February 5, 2006

Dustin Diaz’s getElementsByClass Javascript function is a swell piece of work. Not only will it find all the elements of a given class on a page, but you can tell it to look only in a certain node (it defaults to document) and only for certain tags (it defaults to *). Be sure to also take a look at Top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time.

January 31, 2006

From Will Durst: The George W Bush 2006 State of the Union drinking game. Plus fondue! With Li’l Smokies!

January 27, 2006

Dan Sandler on the true nature of evil. He makes a good point.

January 13, 2006

Consumer Reports on which kinds of products are worth buying organic. Pretty much what we do, and it also highlights the pitfalls of the “organic” buzzword (lack of certification standards for seafood, for example).

January 12, 2006

From Creating Passionate Users, a Crash course in learning theory. This is good and timely. I’m about to start teaching web development to public school teachers.

January 4, 2006

AMERICAN HARDCORE - The Film

“Hardcore was more than music — it was a social movement created by Reagan-era misfit kids. The participants constituted a tribe unto themselves — some finding a voice, others an escape in the hard-edged music; some sought a better world, others were just angry and wanted to raise hell.”

I know some of the Texas folks that are going to be featured in this film, and played shows with most of the Texas bands at one point or another. I hope the movie is good.

January 3, 2006

“ ‘ Random Screen’ is a mechanical thermo dynamic display which does not rely on any electricity.” Cubes with one transluscent side that each hold a single tea candle with a specially cut beer can that displays or hides the light according to the heat from the candle. Very pretty.

December 21, 2005

If only Katie Holmes had thought of this. David Letterman subject of restraining order — Woman says she sent ‘thoughts of love,’ talks of ‘code words’.

December 1, 2005

From the brilliant folks at Icon Buffet comes Free Delivery. Sign up and get a pack of icons from every month. For free!

December 1, 2005

From Elias Fotinis, TaskArrange: Arrange the Windows taskbar buttons. Works as advertised. I have a 21” monitor and if I close Outlook and reopen it for some reason, then it moves all the way from the left to the right and I find that I have to visually scan for it before I can select it. It would be ideal if I could tell Windows “Always put Outlook on the far left, no matter what else is open, and always put Query Analyzer next to Enterprise Manager, no matter where Enterprise Manager is”, but this program gets me halfway there, since I tend to leave programs running for days at a time.

November 17, 2005

The Society for HandHeld Hushing, presented by Coudal Partners and Aaron Draplin. My wife is going to be so happy.

November 3, 2005

Nice gallery of Buck Rogers comics covers from Australia

November 2, 2005

A very nice XHTML character entity reference chart

October 17, 2005

RemoteCalendars, an Outlook 2003 plug-in to interact with iCalendars. Holy cow. Finally. Download from sourceforge.

October 14, 2005

Recording and Releasing an Independent Record, Part Two. As hoped for.

October 14, 2005

Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours. A snazzy idea, and a nice way to use JavaScript without littering your page with <script> tags.

October 10, 2005

Dr. Doom’s Top Ten Euphemism for Sex from Mike Sterling’s Progressive Ruin.

October 4, 2005

Interviewing Hell from Bookslut. Wherein Richard Hell lays it out for a young writer in no uncertain terms.

October 3, 2005

From Veer comes the Kern Zip-up, possibly the best piece of design geek clothing I’ve ever seen.

September 28, 2005

Waiting Patiently. I found this photo while I was waiting patiently for something and I just love it. Such a great face, and the extra umbrella just makes the whole thing.

September 21, 2005

A completely immature and completely satisfying story of a group of people getting Scott Stapp to chase some tail across the United States. Godspeed, you dorks.

September 20, 2005

Joseph Hathaway imparts some lessons learned from recording and releasing an independent record. This is called “Part One”. I hope there will be a “Part Two”.

September 19, 2005

The truth about Google’s so-called “simplicity” from Don Norman happens to expand on this post very nicely.

September 13, 2005

John Maeda has a series of screenshots comparing the evolution of Google and Yahoo! from 1996 to now. It’s an interesting comparison, and he says up front that it’s not an exhaustive study, but one thing that isn’t mentioned is that from the beginning, Yahoo! was a categorized index first, then a search engine.

September 13, 2005

If I dig a very deep hole, where I go to stop? – more Google Maps madness.

May 10, 2005

The McKee Recursion: An academic curiosity, prepared by the author immediately after sending out his graduate school application. [via]

April 27, 2005

On April 24, 2005, Heavy Trash volunteers deposited bright orange viewing platforms in front of three Los Angeles gated communities; Brentwood Circle, Park La Brea and Laughlin Park. The purpose of these viewing platforms is to draw attention to the phenomenon of gated communities — the fastest growing form of housing in the United States. “There are now more than 1 million homes behind such walls in the greater Los Angeles area alone,” according to Setha Low, a professor at the City University of New York.

March 29, 2005

Hong Kong is Metropolis. Or the Matrix. Or Blade Runner’s LA. Or the Sprawl from William Gibson’s early work. These picture of Hong Kong are stunning. I would love to go there some day, but I can’t imagine living in it. I think I’m too used to the idea that I live in a state with a population density of one person per square mile.

March 18, 2005

Over at Illustration Friday a topic is posted every Monday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation. Nice. [via]

March 17, 2005

Low-Literacy Users on the Web. Some interesting statistics and, of course, low-balling expectations. Possibly safe, but is it right?

March 16, 2005

Speak Truth to Power. A Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence: A Study of International Conflict Prepared for the American Friends Service Committee. (There’s a much bigger story behind the guy who posted this, but I haven’t looked into it yet. You can start with the “via” link and work your way back from there. [via]

March 8, 2005

Jason Kottke goes pro. Good luck. I think he stands a decent chance.

February 25, 2005

Six Apart consolidates the web sites for all their products and redesigns. Nice work by Mule Design.

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