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Wednesday, June 30, 2004
- The Low Carb Luxury Online Magazine: No Excuses
- No Excuses: nothing should stop you from exercising... by Cybil Solyn. Cybil got an article published! It's just an online magizine at the moment, but they're getting bought out by a publisher. Oh, and her article made the cover.
Saturday, June 26, 2004
- CSS minimum and maximum sizes
- going to experiment with using min-height and max-width in my latest freelance project.
Friday, June 25, 2004
- Serenity
- Rock! There's such a cult following for this show that the movie will do well. Then we can all hope it gets picked up again.
Thursday, June 24, 2004
- Behr.com Explore Color
- some fun color pickers
- Die Wagenschenke - Das Partyzelt am Albanifest in Winterthur.
- Drunk walk. move your mouse side to side.
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
- Boxes and Arrows Redesign
- this here be the most challenging re-design content i've seen. the bar starts out really high, and the audience is the elite of the User Experience field. i have some things that i would personally like to improve on the home page, mostly having to with link clarity and content freshness.
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
- Skin Deep, A safety assesment of ingredients in personal care products
- so this application is perhaps the slowest I have ever encountered (they must have their time out settings cranked), but has some good information if you're willing to wait.
- Import Your Mbox or Maildir Files into GMail
- This is a note to myself on the off chance that I decide to do something with my old email backup. I haven't even opened up outlook and imported my old email since I reformatted a couple weekends ago. Have moved all conversations to webmail (gmail and my old college account) and have had no need for pop. In fact, since me email isn't tied to a particular computer anymore I've been able to leave my laptop home.
Monday, June 21, 2004
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Fifteen Minutes
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- THE KIDS:
- *hug threesomely*
- ALFONSO CUARÓN:
- I think I directed a porno like this once.
Thursday, June 17, 2004
- KindGirls. Clean pictures galleries of nude girls
- Free Met-Art galleries. More tasteful than my usual fair, but hot nonetheless.
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
- Exercise in Customer Experience
- customer satisfaction vs. branding
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
- 2 Columns, Content First, Floats with Clearing Footer
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A brilliant solution in that it uses two innovative techniques combines. First, it uses negative margins on floats. From the article and my reading elsewhere I still don't fully understand the intricacies of floats, especially when it comes to things like their treatment of margins. But it works. Second, it uses nesting rather than wrapping to solve a problem. Most CSS layout solutions involve wrapping two elements within a container, but this solution pulls from an old school table layout set of tools, and nests a copy div within a container.
The only difficulty I had with the article actually was the naming of a div id, and I think came from the way the article was written, by reverse engineering the solution rather than guiding the reader through it. My problem started with the original HTML code example. The main text was wrapped in a div called "container". This is a name usually reserved for divs that hold within them other divs, making the structure of the page. My question was, why isn't it div id="content" or "copy". My question was answered with the solution to the overlapping text problem in example two. We needed another div inside "container" called "copy", to give the text a right margin. Now, the way he explained it did involve less code changing than starting out with a "copy" div and wrapping a "container" div around it, and shifting the CSS around, but personally I find following the complete path to the solution of a problem just as important as learning the answer. By messing with the solution process by basing the initial example on knowledge gained later in the solution it makes following along more difficult.
- Innovation Landscapes
- 3D graphs mapping the innovation efforts in several industries.
Sunday, June 13, 2004
- W3C DOM - Form error messages
- This is exactly what I was talking to Jon about the other day. I'd like to use something like this for contextual help as well as error messages. Only problem I see with the way he's doing it is that it inserts text into the flow of the page, which could be awkward if the error message or help text is long.
Friday, June 11, 2004
- Styling Form Widgets
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Very "clickable". I like this very simple approach. I've seen people bend the CSS&HTML into contortions to get the corners round, but that's just overkill. The one addition that I would make the cursor a hand:
style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer;"
- Embracing Best Practice
- While the language makes me cringe (current employer is all about that best-whatever crap, they've bought the business consultant lingo but not the underlying ideas), but I think this is moving in the right direction. I'd like to see less pontificating about standards and more presenting of new practices, with pros and cons, leaving the determination of what is best for a given project up to the end user. Also, rambling about how it's all a balancing act doesn't do it for me either. I want to hear a strong case for a given solution. I know that there is rarely one standard solution that will work everywhere. Give me an argument for your way, and if you're really good you'll discuss both sides.
- Urban (slang) Dictionary
- For those of us who were raised in isolation from society and therefore don't know what the fuck people are talking about sometimes. Also just a great place to stop by and learn new ways of saying bad things.
Thursday, June 10, 2004
- taxonomy of evil
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It'll work just like Amway, with a percentage of evil flowing back up the pyramid.
- Talk dirty
- think i read some great SOE stuff on this site once too. Yes. I did: Help the Googlebot understand your web site
- Naked Loft Party
- I miss the early days of Nerve.com, before they sold out and the site got to the point where I couldn't stand looking at it anymore. Fleshbot too is wearing thin. Perhaps good writing is what I'm looking for, and, as it is not yet blocked at work by websense, this site might hit the spot (with the right edge of the browser off screen to hide the ads).
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
- Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban
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it successfully transports the audience to a place that is truly magical
Exactly what I've been saying. The new director has created a fantasy world on film that is awe inspiring, not just campy fun.
- HBO's Deadwood
- There are so few shows worth watching anymore, if it weren't for HBO and HGTV I'd drop cable and go back on Netflix for a while. But HBO continues to come out with weekly shows that are better than most of the movies hollywood keeps pumping out (after dumbing them down to the lowest common denominator).
Monday, June 07, 2004
- Nigritude Ultramarine
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SEO (in the tricking google sense of the words) is no better than spam. Go Anil! Oh, and to make this text relevant to the words Nigritude and Ultramarine, here are their definitions from dictionary.com:
- nigritude
- Blackness; the state of being black
- ultramarine
- A vivid or strong blue to purplish blue.
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
- Web Standards ROI
- Some actual numbers. Granted, it's all anecdotal, but it's great to see a cost/time breakdown.
- glassdog
- Glassdog is back with a vengeance! Gaudy clashing design, and content to match. Delightfully obscene. Wish more people would run uncensored.
- Sparklines (or Worldlines) updated
- Tufte has updated his page on "Sparklines: Intense, Simple, Word-Sized Graphics"
