This article on Mozilla’s Ubiquity has been making the rounds, but holy crap why aren’t people thinking this way when designing mobile devices? Make everything more natural.

I just discovered Pasquale D’Silva, a talented illustrator and animator. You can read his musings and see tutorials on his own site, and he also has a great drawing tutorial on rhythm lines at Vectortuts.

Every week Typesites showcases a site with, you guessed it, great typography. I hope he’ll get some sites on here that haven’t been around the design showcase block a million times, but great idea.

Future Media Standards & Guidelines from the BBC. I particularly appreciated this point:

1.1.2. If a user does not have the correct plug-in to access the enhanced content, or cannot easily access the content because they are using assistive technologies (such as screen readers) or Betsie to view the site, this should not detract […]

Canadian designer Matt Brett just launched an awesome redesign of his site. Great use of icons! One thing I’ve always really liked about his sites is how he incorporates current games and music. I wonder if he’s hand rolling that part?

The complete works of Charles Darwin are online, including PDF downloads of Voyage of the Beagle and Origin of Species. Listen to an interview about the site from today’s Morning Edition.

Combat junk mail by using postage paid envelopes to send bricks to analog spammers.

The history of Ski Free, complete with download.

Charleton Heston has kicked the bucket. I wonder if anyone pried the gun out of his cold, dead hands.

Just so you know, geeks are buff now.

Juliana Hatfield writes about her experience working on My So-Called Life, and the song-writing process. My favorite part is her thoughts on how constraint fosters creativity:
Having rules or limitations can be very liberating just as having total freedom to do whatever you want, however you want, can be sort of paralyzing. It’s hard to know […]

Chicago may ban small plastic bags because they are often used for drugs. I wonder what implications this will have for businesses selling body jewelry. Illinois has always been notoriously unsympathetic to the body mod industry, only recently taking the legal tattoo age down from 21 to 18. According to the article:
…one reasonably should know […]

Microsoft has released a beta of Internet Explorer 8.0
Internet Explorer 8.0 is a shift from previous versions in that it focuses heavily on complying with Web standards.
Isn’t that what they said last time? Support for HTML5 but not XHTML2- sounds like they just forced the industry’s hand.

Some of Alana’s Derek Hess tattoos have made their way onto his site.
Though I’m not a fan of Derek Hess’ work, Alana really enjoys tattooing his designs since the style and line work are drastically different than typical tattoo art.

What happens to an interface when there’s too many cooks in the kitchen. Let’s face it, when you work in house everyone on a project has an agenda. Marketing, tech, ad sales, everyone has their own set of demands they want met. This is why I believe any site with a lot of stakeholders absolutely […]

Something tells me it’s a pretty big deal Joshua Davis (Flash pioneer!) moved his entire site from Flash to Wordpress.

I just saw the new Mac Pro, DO WANT. I can’t believe this thing supports up to 4tb storage and 32gb of RAM!

A definitive site on all things Paul Rand.

Why Starbucks actually helps mom and pop coffee houses. Not sure if I buy this, but an interesting read. Starbucks just opened across the street from a local struggling coffee shop and music venue, so I hope for their sake it brings them more business.

The Vatican Museum recently displayed reproductions of many famous statues, but in color. Much of classical sculpture was in color, but the pigments wore off over time. I think the colorless statues appear more realistic, while these sculptors had an amazing grasp of anatomy their understanding of color was pretty flat.

How did movie zombies get so fast?
It wasn’t long ago that the cinematic undead obeyed the first law of corpse locomotion: A zombie might bleed on you, bite you, or rip out your ribcage, but wouldn’t beat you in the 40-yard dash.

A map of the island from Lost. Not only does this look awesome, but time consuming! How long would it take someone to plot all those points?

For Christmas, I would like a tshirt celebrating my favorite typeface.

Using Definition Lists to mark up forms. Interesting approach. Personally, having my label and field in the same list item is more flexible for most of my purposes, but this might be useful for something else.

BusinessWeek on Accessibility, and the Target lawsuit.

Mario Batali on the Food Network:
They don’t need me. They have decided they are mass market and they are going after the Wal-Mart crowd…So they don’t need someone who uses polysyllabic words from other languages.

Browser compatibility woes? This might come in handy.

Thanks to a recently signed bill, Lakewood now has more options for cable service. Currently, if you live in Lakewood you’re stuck with Cox. My Cox service goes out intermittently, certain channels never work properly, my internet service goes down almost daily, and they charge considerably more than Time Warner. Also their customer service (not […]

Shirts + Smores = Delicious!

Have I professed my love today for Carrie Brownstein yet?
…it’s harder to ignore the fact that the perimeters of what constitutes music and entertainment have been stretched so far that they’re like baggy sweats with a broken elastic waistline.
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