Contrast is King at A List Apart (tagged: accessibility color design usability webdev essay ) Internet Explorer UA Style Sheets via Scott M. (tagged: IE CSS webdev ) the barefoot philosophy at Zen Habits — apropos of recent reading (tagged: exercise barefoot gtd philosophy ) Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard at Lapham’s Quarterly (tagged: awesome […]
Waterloo And to keep it balanced, a quote from FrumForum: This time, when we went for all the marbles, we ended with none. UPDATED: looking at this again, this here might be the more relevant pull quote 1: Could a deal have been reached? Who knows? But we do know that the gap between this […]
Designing User Interfaces For Business Web Applications at Smashing Magazine (tagged: webdev design ui usability ux prototyping work todo ) Ten rules for writing fiction(part two) via B² – …and 2 of 2. (tagged: writing inspiration ) Ten rules for writing fiction via B² – Inspired by (and including) the ten rules from Elmore Leonard. […]
Op-Ed Columnist – The Fat Lady Has Sung at NYTimes.com — $300 911 calls and: C-Span is just ESPN with only two teams. (tagged: politics economy ) What really happens when you navigate to a URL (tagged: webdev tutorial tech network http ) Coconut & Lime: Asiago & Crab Macaroni & Cheese (tagged: recipe ) […]
Google To End Support For IE6 at Slashdot Technology: [Rajen Sheth, Google Apps senior product manager] suggested that customers upgrade their browsers to pretty much anything else. (tagged: IE6 Google obsolescence ) Preparing for the IPv6 Transition at Comcast Voices (via Slashdot) (tagged: comcast ipv6 todo ) What colours were dinosaur feathers? at Not Exactly […]
geuis’s helium-css at GitHub (via Ajaxian) — scan your page for unused CSS (tagged: css javascript webdev todo ) Realism in UI Design at ignore the code (via @brown_MINI) (tagged: design ui usability ux icons essay ) Internet Explorer 8 document and browser modes at NCZOnline (tagged: webdev IE8 work todo ) Data URIs explained […]
In-wall USB charger is as cheap as it is ingenious at Engadget — so cool (tagged: USB power charger energy blog ) One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik at BLDGBLOG (via B²) — re: Yucca Mountain (great images and interesting discussion) (tagged: design science future history environment nuclear energy architecture […]
15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee at The Oatmeal — I love this design. (tagged: coffee design visualization ) Fox News Fact-Checks Sarah Palin’s Coin Conspiracy Theory (VIDEO) short version: "Sarah Palin is too crazy even for the crazy network." Personally I'd like it if "In God We Trust" came off the money all together […]
Scrivener NaNoWriMo 2009 Trial Against my better judgment, I'm going to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. And I'm using the special trial version of Scrivener to do it. (tagged: Scrivener writing NaNoWriMo todo ) Seven questions that keep physicists up at night at New Scientist (via B²) (tagged: science physics todo ) Left vs Right […]
Building a World that "Gives Life to the Promise of Our Founding Documents" Well said, Mr. President: And that is why I will accept this award as a call to action — a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century. (tagged: obama international politics nobel ) JavaScript: Bad Practices […]