Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) If nothing else, I love the name. Say it with me: “MEGA DROP-DOWN” (tagged: design ui usability accessibility navigation todo ) PETA: Ingrid Newkirk’s Unique Will As Twitter user Mikey-san said: You know who else delivers body parts to enemies? The fucking mafia. On the other […]
Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008 by Paul Roberts (at Mother Jones) — the gist seems to be: re-evaluate your assumptions about what sustainable agriculture means (hint: it involves more than just carbon footprints and whether/not the farm is organic; see also: labor conditions, see also: man-hours of labor) and maybe be prepared to […]
I know there are some folks out there that would say "oh, lighten up" about something like this but I thought that this was in such incredibly poor taste. With the epidemic of childhood obesity occurring in the United States, these sorts of "cute jokes" are neither cute nor funny. The makers of this bib […]
While banging through the home-stretch of Ortho 1.0, I decided to give MacRabbit’s Espresso editor a try. I’m “between” editors right now – feeling no special love or loyalty to any one text editor – and noting Espresso’s public beta, I decided it was worthy of some exploration. THE SHORT VERSION: I liked it alright […]
The 75 Albums Every Man Should Own …according to Esquire. Not such a bad list, actually; and surprisingly well-rounded and eclectic. (tagged: todo music ) The Case for Paying the A.I.G. Bonuses at NYTimes.com : That may strike many people as a bit of convenient legalese, but maybe there is something to it. If you […]
Almost exactly two years ago, I first unveiled Ortho, the home-rolled custom WordPress theme that you see here. It is named in part after the character Ortho Stice from David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest and is also a vaguely tongue-in-cheek, slightly punny nod to the squared-off corners that graced the original design. With this […]
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Follow The Oregon Trail on Your iPhone at TheAppleBlog: "Maya has died of dysentary." I love this game! (tagged: games iphone todo ) Tab click-through areas at Manton Reece (tagged: ui usability todo ) Happy Birthday Krakatoa! at Information Junk (via Julia) (tagged: reptile surreal weird blog ) JsMag the magazine for JavaScript developers (tagged: […]
Why I’m Buying the New Mac Mini: Value Reconsidered at The Apple Blog: It is underpowered, it is overpriced, and, worst of all, as Gizmodo points out, it is not easily upgradeable after the fact, so most users would be advised to bite the bullet and pay Apple’s extortionate rates for in-house upgrades, or risk […]
Perhaps this is stating the obvious but amongst today’s clamor of Apple’s miscellaneous product updates 1 was a related, relatively silent update: the new AirPort Extreme. It’s an important but understated move that acknowledges two other products which did not get updated today: the iPhone and the tv. Each model in the desktop line got […]