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Friday, May 28, 2004
- Plastic Balls
- A flash game with new take on breakout. Gravity is in the center. Easier to control with mouse than keyboard.
Thursday, May 27, 2004
- PixIcons:: eats est percipi
- an entire type face of 9x9 pixel icons. via mister jon.
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
- Simon Willison: Executing JavaScript on page load
- note to self for next time pull together a dhtmlapi.js
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
- Comments on mezzoblue v4
- comments to be read and comment to be made before they get turned off. suspect there will be a number of "it looks unpolished" but nobody actually discussing the contrast issues (high contrast design, low contrast content).
- Sons of Suckerfish
- code to be read
Sunday, May 16, 2004
- Colour Schemes
- I used to do the technical thing, picking two complimentary colors. Lately I've been doing what the first commentor suggests, pick a color, then come up with a harmious colors, often going monochrome with various shades of the first color, then throwing in a strong compliment to pop the links/headers. I'd really like to start using the selecting colours from nature technique.
- Non-Standard Code Hurts The Bottom Line
- I just want to work on fun projects and do the right thing, code them with standards. But ROI is a necessary evil if you want to stay in business.
Thursday, May 13, 2004
- 'Fictitious' author publishes the first book without verbs
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My book would have no sentences subjects. Context is so mundane.
via kottle.
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
- Information Architecture Tools
- Fuel for an emerging document junkie. Also to be read: a boxes and arrows article on Understanding Organizational Stakeholders for Design Success
- Internationalization
- This is a lot of what I do here at work, I'll have to give these a read and see how well the guidelines mesh with reality.
Monday, May 10, 2004
- semiautomatic syntax checking of javascript
- This is the stuff that puts Cybil to sleep.
- The Worm Within
- If you have not recently eaten and do not plan to shortly you will find this story fascinating (in a repulsive medical experience sort of way). via Mister Jon.
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
- Stellar screenshots in print pieces
- We get this one all the time, and the usual answer is, "tough luck," or "go shuvit," but now there's a real answer! I'll have to play with it with the laserjet here at work.
Monday, May 03, 2004
- WRATH
- A truly divine game. Hit the arrow in the top right of the scroll when it's unclear what to do next.
- Pac Manhattan
- it's like freshman year in the hampshire dorms all over again, except in the city with cellphones.
Saturday, May 01, 2004
- Typophile Forums: Top 10 typefaces
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Creeping towards the top of my to-do list is the task of organizing my fonts. Ideally when I am done there will be only 10 or 12 fonts on my computer, but realistically it's probably going to be more like 20 given my need to keep the set of rather mundane web fonts.With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.
- Mountaintop Corners: A List Apart
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Started reading this thinking he'd come up with some clever CSS trick like the breakthroughs into geometry made with borders a while ago (culminating with CSS House). But no, it's just the ragged transparent gif rounded corner thing, Jon did that two years ago at work. It's nice to see it taken main stream, it's a fairly versatile technique (although I don't like the fixed-width take) but it's nothing new.
Side note: never ever comment on A List Apart. The people who comment there are so stupid. Now I've been trying to be a little less of an elitist snob (outwardly at least, and only when I need to get work out of people) but the reactions to this simple article are so outright imbecilic I was a little taken aback.
- Identify a Font
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Man. My first try got me a really shit font. Wish you could weight choices, this font is a joke: Eyeballs.
Ok, second try I answered "not sure" on all the ones I didn't care about and got a much better font: Baskerville Caps. Remove the leaves from the solid varient and that's what I was looking for. Here we go: Baskerville (BT). Very smart they were to put a feedback form on the results page.
link via jfred.
- 300 Images From 1800 Sites
- collection of icons from around the web. nifty negative letter-spacing, though the grey on white is illegible on my LCD monitor. via eric meyer
