December 2007
Paste Magazine's top 100 albums of 2007
Cool DIY idea for creating a sound proof booth on the cheap.
Y'all So Stupid #5 (NSFW)
Recent links worth looking at
November 2007
Miss the CNN/YouTube debate last night? See all the questions and answers here.
MacOSaiX is a fantastic utility for creating large mosaics of your photos using services like Flickr, Google, or even QuickTime movies. Can also save your creating as a 300dpi TIFF for printing, if you'd like.
Know someone who won't shut up? Slip them one of these cards.
August 2007
FLV is dead. Or, at least it will be a few years down the road, for today Adobe announced support for H.264 playback in the next version of Flash Player 9. Can I get a hell yeah!? Really wonderful news for Flash nerds like myself.
The Road to Clarity. New York Times covers Clearview, the typeface that will likely replace all interstate signage in the coming years.
Designer Hanna Werning's portfolio site is a lesson in simplicity and utility. Very refreshing.
July 2007
If you work on a site where "the fold" is almighty, check out FoldSpy -- a new javascript utility for calculating screen real estate.
YSlow is a handy Firefox add-on for Firebug that tests web pages for performance.
Interesting blog post about how the revised dock design in Leopard does not respect Apple's own Human Interface Guidelines.
LittleBigPlanet gameplay trailer. May be worth buying a PS3 just to play this.
Echochrome. Trippy new game coming out for PSP/PS3.
Finally, after all these years, Apple drops the ridiculous "Pro" requirement for full screen mode in the latest QuickTime 7.2 update.
5 Leopard GUI Gripes. I agree with everything on this list, especially the translucent menu bar. It's got to go.
Need a lightweight, free shopping cart script to add PayPal purchases to your web site? Check out FatFreeCart.
Frustrated by the lack of video podcast for PBS's Frontline, Kevin Burton whipped up his own feed that pulls down the latest episodes.
Apple has posted a handy web developer guide for the iPhone with lots of geeky goodness inside.
Automatically fetch and display images from Flickr as your desktop wallpaper with DeskLickr for OS X.
HBO Voyeur. Surreal use of Flash video, a la Hitchcock.
June 2007
Nice wallpaper of an old diner sign.
My friend Jason Drakeford has posted an awesome short film as part of MySpace's Stranglehold short film contest. People in the ATL may recognize some of the locations. Vote for it!
Objectpark Software makes sharing / syncing files over a LAN easy with Picnic, now in public beta.
The oh-so-handy Inspector available in nightly builds of Safari has been updated with a whole new look that feels a lot like Firebug.
Like a typeface? I mean, *really* like it? See if it's available in this collection of tshirts available from Skreened.
Wright is full of wonderful modernist furnishings and accessories. Found on Todd Oldham's company blog, which is worth reading.
Safari 3 Public Beta. And hey, it now does Windows.
On a shared hosting plan? Find out who you're neighbors are with this great tool.
Hardcore UI porn on full display in these Apple iPhone Ads. Damn, that's pretty.
How great is this? Check out the synopsis for Michel Gondry's new film. As long as it doesn't turn into a Date Movie yuck fest, it sounds fantastic.
Does the Mac really need another FTP client? Guess so. Forklift is the latest one for you to try out.
May 2007
Love the Adobe CS3 packaging? Wrap your desktop with these fancy wallpapers from the mothership.
Don't know how I missed these back in October, but these Dia de los Muertos icons are fantastic.
One to add to your Netflix queue: Lives of Others. Great German thriller Hollywood will likely copy (and screw up).
Something brewing musically in the ATL? MTV seems to think so.
It doesn't update too often, but the Google webmaster central blog is a good site to bookmark if you're into SEO.
Hidden spectrograph images in the music of Aphex Twin, Plaid and Venetian Snares.
I must have played Irakere's "Bacalao Con Pan" (which means "Codfish with bread") 20 times when I was on the radio. Salon was nice enough to post a free MP3 of it 'cause it's on a new compilation. Amazing guitar, organ, horns, and...cowbell! Play it loud.
Every client that has ever asked to "make the logo bigger" now has a theme song.
Growl Pepper is an interesting plugin for Mint that notifies you via Growl (OS X) whenever particular activities happen on your web site.
April 2007
Fancy new SlideShowPro inspired icon set at IconBuffet for all the crazy icon traders to pass around.
Christopher Hitchens channels his inner Richard Dawkins with God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Slate.com is publishing excerpts.
MTV.com redesigns...again. Someone saw the light and ditched their tiny, unintuitive, impossible Flash presence with good 'ol HTML. Previous site only lasted a few months.
WTFCNN? tracks CNN.com's sometimes wacky news headlines.
A list of fonts included in Adobe CS3. Interestingly, they have licensed the entire Miniml bitmap library.
Such a great idea for a blog: Ikea Hacker. Dedicated to the remixing of Ikea products.
Found+READ is a new weblog centered on web entrepreneurship.
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster gets some amazing, hilarious hate-mail.
Happy Cog is hosting a survey for web designers to participate in. If you got ten minutes to spare, jump in.
Panic gets into the web dev text editor game with Coda, an all in one app that bundles Transmit with with a text editor and other WYSIWYG tools.
Davidson smacks down the all-too-common practice of pagination and "page-view juicing" in online media.
Josh Marshall raises a good point concerning NBC's "branding" of the VA Tech shooter's media kit.
Darth Vader desktop picture, if you're into that kinda thing.
Video presentation of Firebug by developer Joe Hewitt.
77 hours of The Sopranos squeezed into 7 minutes.
More Photoshop CS3 links. Check out What's unique to Photoshop Extended? for a rundown of all the wacky things Adobe is adding. Most surprising to me is that you can open / place video files, and even output them. Crazy times.
March 2007
A little wet floor experiment I created with SlideShowPro using Flash's BitmapData object. I especially like how the reflection continuously updates. More info at the site.
Iconfactory releases Sticker System, a wonderful set of sticker-like icons. The CandyBar set is especially nice.
What's new with Flash CS3. Funny how one of their reasons to upgrade is "Adobe interface." Ouch.
Adobe announcing Creative Suite 3 packages and pricing today with a live event this afternoon.
What's the difference between the new Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended? Click here to read all about it.
Mailboxer. Killer little OS X app that adds smart folders for each of your Address Book contacts to Mail. Instant sorting of email by name.
Adobe has released a public alpha of Apollo for both OS X and Windows.
Get the Glass! Phenomenal 3D Flash game that has something to do with drinking more milk. Ahh, who cares. Fun game!
Christian Clown Training. Part 1 of an educational video for new and aspiring christians who spread the belief through Clowning. Yes, clowning. Be sure to browse around. Lots of weird, weird stuff.
Promo video for 'Home', the new online service for PlayStation 3 users.
Looking for some good stencils for OmniGraffle? Check out Graffletopia. The User Interface category is especially handy for anyone doing web/application design wireframes.
Santasm. Merry Christmas.
My friend Ben at Super Deluxe is the funniest man alive.
Oh Candy, I love you.
NBC is hosting a beautiful HD video of Spider-Man 3. About 7 minutes of actual footage, not trailer stuff.
Mac web developers, grab a free copy of Serverskine. Handy way to save logins and passwords for all domains you manage.
Going to see 300? Read up on the history behind the film.
I found my twin on Flickr. Creepy!
Need help picking colors? Colorjack is a slick new utility for doing just that.
Borat DVD designed to look like a bootleg
My man Aaron Byrd (and his brother Kevin) created a cool music video for Aaron's song "Cops on Bikes." Check it out.
Love TextMate? Check out TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac, a new book (also available in PDF form).
February 2007
Wired.com has been redesigned. Nothing drastic, but still nice.
MarsEdit, my favorite blog updating app, is back in development again thanks to Red Sweater software. And kicking it off in style is a new point update.
The Host looks deliciously entertaining. Check out the trailer and the official site.
Excellent typographic interpretation of Pulp Fiction.
Dave Shea has written a great post about icon sizing in the 72dpi world, where vector isn't always the holy grail of file formats.
NPR's "This American Life" will soon make the jump to television. Here's a trailer. On Showtime, unfortunately.
Iconfactory gets into the gaming biz with Frenzic.
Thrift store art remix. Really wonderful. I especially love Chris Hutchinson's work.
Don't miss Pan's Labyrinth, a dazzling, creepy fairy tale.
Cornelius - Fit Song. Also check out an interview with the director, Koichiro Tsujikawa.
January 2007
The Bootstrapper's Bible. Free PDF for penniless wannabe entrepreneurs.
Shaun Inman has released Mint 2.0 for all to enjoy. I especially dig the chocolate mint style.
For all you Flash nerdz out there, a preloader style watch.
Adobe plucking out their feathers for a new, simple suite of application icons? It sure looks that way.
So uncomfortable it's painful to watch. Stephen Merritt on Good Day Atlanta
December 2006
A beta of Photoshop CS3 is coming out tomorrow. Universal binary too!
Upload images directly from Apple's Photo Booth to Flickr with FlickrBooth.
WDDG relaunches with a style / presentation that'll tickle nostalgia in anyone who remembers those choppy, dirty science class videos of yesteryear.
Show your love for the Nintendo DS with these DS buttons
Rejoice! The latest version of VLC (0.8.6) can finally playback FLVs.
Firebug is one hell of a Firefox extension for web developers. The "Net" tab is especially nice for visualizing activity.
Screw next gen! Ambrosia goes way, way old school with the hand-drawn video game SketchFighter. Fun too.
November 2006
There are 75 musical groups in this photo. Can you find them all?
If you're a freak like me and obsess over keeping your iTunes library stocked with cover art, you'll love CoverScout for OS X.
Hilarious nerd in line for Wii. Helllll naw!
The band AIDS Wolf has some unique promo photos (NSWF).
Interesting story out in San Francisco where a suburban war memorial is getting some people all bent out of shape.
Vienna is a nice freeware alternative to NetNewsWire for your RSS reading on OS X.
Katamari inspired television ad for Travelers Insurance
Brand New. All brand identity chat. All the time.
New OS X dock utility from the smart minds at Ambrosia -- Dragster. Set up shortcuts of where you want files to go, and poof -- it's outta here.
October 2006
Colby Katz. Fantastic photography.
Inquisitor 3 is released, and the developer is no longer charging for it.
Adobe releases a public beta of Soundbooth, a new audio editing application "in the spirit of Sound Edit 16."
Yet another OS X app named Tangerine. This one though supplies a global color palette for all your apps. A bit expensive, but a lot of people I know would benefit from this.
iLike adds a sidebar to iTunes with similar functionality to last.fm. Something tells me Apple may build something like this into iTunes down the road.
Firefox 2 is out. Go get it.
Henry Rollins writes a letter to Ann Coulter
Wow, this is nice. Check out Tangerine, an OS X app that analyzes your iTunes library and compiles custom playlists based on BPM and beat intensity.
Spike the Vote allows blocks of users to digg stories, earn credits, then cash them in to promote their own content. Sneaky. Smart.
Paint, paint, and more paint. What else but the new Sony BRAVIA ad.
Funny, I thought the new Dylan album cover looked familiar.
Rabbit by Run Wrake. Words fail me.
Interesting Flash navigation and great photos at Brad Harris Photo
Google buyout of YouTube coming today?. Seems almost a done deal at this point.
Adobe has added true full screen functionality to Flash Player 9. I tested it out.
Battle of the bands. War breaks out between record covers.
Buffet Script. Swoon.
HD trailers for 300. Unreal.
If you've driven around Atlanta, noticed large photos plastered on the sides of buildings, and wondered where they came from, here you go. I drive by the kid on the bike everyday on my way to Williams Street.
Designers who use Illustrator and OS X should check out Lineform, a lightweight, fast vector design app.
Finally, a way to playback FLV (and a bunch of other formats) in QuickTime using the "swiss-army knife" plugin Perian. Works perfectly for me.
September 2006
Cookie Mag relaunches with a crisp, pleasant layout. One of my favorite logotypes too.
Create pullquotes with CSS and JavaScript without duplicating text. Very clever.
Liked the Honda Grrr video? Honda Grrr Game
Mii Channel. A look at the Nintendo Wii's social / online capabilities.
My friends at Firewheel Design launch DSicons. A paint-by-pixel instructional site for creating snappy icons for your Nintendo DS.
Seriously now. US President George Bush is to host White House talks on British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
Cooper Black Swash Italic. Good ol' Cooper Black with extra flare.
Roger Black is still in love with red, black and white. New personal site that, ironically, is incredibly hard to read (small white serifs on bright red).
Browsershots is a free site for testing your site in a variety of browsers. While not as quick as Browsercam, it's much more affordable.
It can't get more over the top than I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
IE 7 RC1 without that annoying delete IE 6 thing.
BitRocket is a very pretty BitTorrent client for OS X with RSS support.
Mutual Appreciation (trailer)
August 2006
When I'm home, this is where I work. Recently finished.
Someone used the Half Life 2 engine to create a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Kaufmann House.
Hey, you! Time to GTD with Inbox, a svelt new OS X app.
Style guide for people who hate style guides
NPR is working on a digital music portal that'll consolidate content from hundreds of stations.
From the crew that brought you Fuggy Fuggy, here comes The M Man
Yes.com compiles songs played in the past 24 hours on radio stations across America. You can even see the most-rotated tracks on each, as well as a fancy Flash app on the home page that displays real-time data.
By popular demand, a new version of SlideShowPro was released last night with an optional built-in thumbnail navigation. Home page demo shows the update.
NY Times reviews Idlewild. Strange editorial disconnect between the headline and the first sentence. Does it jump or not?
M Studio has an interesting navigation.
Just when you thought you'd seen it all, along comes the new Soulwax.com, home of 2manydjs.
Gucci relaunches. The widest website in history.
Add comments and ratings to anything with Mochimention
MTV Overdrive relaunches. Supports all browsers, built entirely in Flash.
Web Inspector in the latest WebKit build has a nice metrics display. How handy is that?
What's coming in CSS3? Check out this preview, with limited browser support of course.
When it comes to web video, Neave.tv doesn't fuck around.
Move over Mickey Rourke. Matt Dillon is the new Henry Chinaski.
Boot Camp updates with support for installing Windows on a separate disk. Where's that firewire drive I had laying around...
Finally, someone makes an attractive, well designed family of surge protectors.
I'm not a fan of wallpaper as a general rule, but these metallic wallpaper patterns from Paper Voyeur are quite beautiful.
Viacom and Adobe are hooking up in a relationship that includes online video. I can only hope this means the end of Viacom's Windows Media / IE only services.
Ladies and gentlemen, The Incredible Flying Lawnmower.
The Wall Street Journal pokes holes in Chris Anderson's 'The Long Tail'.
Daily Type is a fine typography site run by several Russian type designers who post original, freehand letter-forms.
In case you always wanted to know, how to make a plastic bag eating giraffe.
Beautiful mountain retreat with floor to ceiling glass wrapped with planks of cedar. Glows like a lamp at night.
LA Times arts critic Lewis Segal lists the five things he hates about (the current state of) ballet.
Richard Sweeney's paper sculptures.
Coming soon. Helvetica, the movie.
The Dual-core Intel Mac Pro has landed. One hell of dual boot machine coming soon to my house.
Miss Safari's Activity Window when using Firefox? Check out TamperData, a nice alternative.
Had trouble with Dreamhost the past few weeks? They explain why with their typical aplomb.
Can't afford an Arco? CB2 offers a pretty nice arcing floor lamp for a lot less.
Like the recent Hot Wheels campaign, Lego nails the essence of their product with sublime simplicity.
Bukowski reads, a scene from the fantastic documentary 'Born Into This'
Apple profiles Takagi Masakatsu
July 2006
The Science of Sleep, new film by Michel Gondry.
Dr. Hook and company are just a little high.
Migys World features lots of lovely illustrations by Miguel Ornia-Blanco. Beautiful site too.
All the Mac crap I use everyday
Cargo is an interesting spin on stencil typefaces
Not sure when this switched, but Bravo has a funky new look.
Nice PHP script for displaying your photos online in a magazine-like layout.
Silly old music video for XTC's 'Generals and Majors' with...Richard Branson?
It's the new sensation in home entertainment. The Drumbuddy. Puppet show at the end is deliriously surreal.
Not sure how I've missed this one, but PingMag is a fantastic design magazine.
June 2006
Loco Roco. Just try to get that song out of your head now.
Watch out PayPal. Google Checkout is live and out the door. Even comes with an API for developers so it can be integrated into third party shopping cart software.
The mysterious story of a woman on a pay phone overheard instructing someone to enter "rm -r*". Good geeky fun.
Really cool embossed patterns that peel-and-stick to your wall.
Slate redesigns with some huge menu rollovers.
Don'tcha just wonder what these guys are talking about?
No, it's not a loop. It's Head On. You apply it directly to the forehead.
How to redirect a web page, the smart way
Bob Ross, yes, that Bob Ross, is getting his own video game.
Pitchfork runs down the 100 most awesome music videos on YouTube. Shame some of these aren't higher quality.
LITBox is a nice spin on the Ajax dialog box popping up everywhere these days.
Speaking of Threadless, wonderful typography in this Quick Brown Fox T-Shirt. If only it wasn't banana colored.
Font foundry T26 has hooked up with Threadless to produce Type Tees.
Erik Spiekermann is embarrassed by the World Cup branding
What a cool idea. Visor for OS X emulates console mode in PC games to offer system wide terminal access.
Giving the X-Men a Digital Face Lift
Jonathan Hoefler and company have released Verlag, a new sans serif designed for the Guggenheim Museum.
Fans of Threadless will enjoy Oddica, a cool new t-shirt retailer (turntable shirt is especially nice).
Simple, elegant ads for Hot Wheels.
Design Observer has redesigned with a nice new layout.
Bookmark, cookie, and password syncing in Firefox is finally here. And it's free, compared to the $99 a year I'm plunking down to sync my bookmarks in Safari with .Mac. Check out Google Browser Sync.
After years and years of looking the same, Emigre has redesigned.
Browse for colors with ColorWhore
Google has released their video player for the Mac.
Fuego is a grill designed for the DWR crowd.
Check out Candy, a fancy new PDF design mag clocking in at almost 50MB. Good stuff.
May 2006
Safari Tidy automatically validates web pages from the browser status bar.
Stumbled across this keynote by Dick Hardt recently. I'm probably way late to this one, but it's a great presentation about the concept of identity in the modern age.
How much is your domain worth? Find out with Leapfish.com.
See the not-so-amazing transformation of a web site on this book cover. Seriously, a graphic and an iframe are amazing? I quit then.
10 Things I Hate About Commandments
Building Scalable Web Sites. New Book from Cal Henderson of Flickr.
Develop PHP sites locally on OS X? The new utility Headdress may make your life a bit simpler.
According to this poll, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming are now the only US states where a majority of people approve of George W. Bush.
Configure your own Bugatti. Slick interface.
Check out Cork'd, the new community site dedicated to reviewing and sharing wine.
FolderOrg is a nice little AppleScript for automatically moving folder content into dated folders.
Pitfalls of parity. How to compete by not doing what your competitors are doing.
Lots of great typography at Cafe Rio Mexican Grill, which makes abundant use of Pintor from T26. One of my recent fave typefaces.
Wonderful short called Tyger. Nice site design too.
Fantastically strange clip of David Bowie on SNL in '79
What an odd pair. Folkie Paul Simon hooked up with the multifaceted Brian Eno on Simon's new album "Surprise"
Momus debunks Art School Confidential
Linotype has posted a nice overview of fonts on football jerseys, with links to similar typefaces.
If you use Transmit on OS X, you should check out Yummy FTP. Very fast, easy to use, lots of great features.
The open source Yahoo UI library has released an interesting suite of CSS templates called Grids CSS, which can be mixed to create more than 100 page layouts.
Check out Lumen, a beautiful oil lamp shadow projector.
Ever wonder what a baby sees? I sure have. Tiny Eyes claims to simulate a newborn's vision over time.
Mac software company Panic is collecting screenshots of web sites that have ripped them off. Load up yer six gun.
The portfolio of Jim Elliott has very clever navigation.
Interesting Madonna photo shoot in W magazine.
A Sopranos video game is slated for later this year.
The Sketches of Frank Gehry clip I linked to a while back is now available in HD. Much nicer.
Fulfill your childhood dream of speaking like Darth Vader with Voice Candy
Add that fancy wet floor reflection to any image with Reflection.js.
Boy howdy! I would buy a DVD of these retro television IDs if it were available, but YouTube will do for now. (via Coudal)
A Brief History of the Color Red
Crystal Skulls are worth checking out. Free MP3s there too.
Of all the comic books I read as a kid, Ghost Rider was my favorite. Now it'll be a movie (QT link). Cage though? Eh.
A supposedly leaked trailer for Casino Royal, the next Bond film.
Lots of good looking, free pixel fonts at Semplice Pixelfonts.
Get a Mac. Funny, view the "Viruses" ad in large or HD. Really obvious audio overdub midway through with the PC guy. "Network" and "Restarting" are especially clever.
April 2006
View Source Chart is one of the most useful Firefox extensions around. Highly recommended.
Is Apple's professional photography app Aperture already dead?
Microsoft is cooking something called Wallop.
TYPO Berlin 2006 has some fun navigation to play with. Meow.
Blinksale 2.0 has launched. It's how I send invoices.
Are 5 second video ads the future of web marketing? Absolutely. Considering a lot of viral web videos are 30 seconds or less, it only makes sense.
Those IE 6 hacks in your style sheet are coming back to bite you. Read up on the CSS changes in IE 7 and what you can do to prepare.
Here's a Photoshop hack that'll be music to many Flash developer's ears: PNG export of layers from Photoshop. Lord knows how many times I've done this by hand.
Lily Allen. Especially like the Calypso-pop of "LDN"
Free set of vintage numbers from Psy/Ops.
Tivo alert. Be sure to catch the documentary series China Rises on the Discovery Channel. It's especially good on the HD channel.
Sketches of Frank Gehry (click "Trailer")
Web business and development resource Vitamin has launched.
Arrested Development meets Star Wars
See instant real estate valuations with Zillow.com.
adicolor is an interesting podcast of short films about color sponsored by adidas. Larger versions available here.
In the event of snakes on a plane
Pop-up windows that are contextual to their parent link can be created with DOMinclude.
Cool little Dashboard widget from HBO
Predictions for a Web 2.0 social experience
Beck has a new web site designed by the talented chaps at Hi-ReS!
House Industries releases the new typeface suite United
Holy shit! Apple releases public beta of Boot Camp, allowing Macintel machines to run Windows XP natively. And while they're at it, they've confirmed it will be built into OS X 10.5.
Ladies and gentlemen, the new New York Times
March 2006
Thank You For Smoking opening titles is a typographic explosion. Lovely work. Also see Typographica's deduction of the fonts used.
Really well done short film by Blue Tongue Films: Lucky.
Ugly is authentic. Who needs graphic designers?
Oh God, is this me? Up with Grups takes a look at the new thirty-something dad.
Watch out -- there's a leprechaun loose in Mobile, Alabama! The sketch is especially funny.
PSP Flash Player is version 6.0. I was hoping for 7, but it's better than nothing.
Remember the whole Quark logo debacle back in September? Well, they've redesigned it to remove any suspicion of copying or copyright infringement.
Flash developers, here's a nice tip: How to use trace() from a web browser. Full instructions for both OS X and Windows.
My prayers have been answered. You can now subscribe to The Daily Show via iTMS and receive new videos as they become available. $10 for 16 episodes.
No idea what's going on, but Viking Line is a lot of fun.
Promo site for the Walk the Line DVD. Freakin' huge experience.
Why hasn't anyone thought of this before? An electrical outlet that turns on/off according to temperature.
Newsvine is out of beta. It's everything online newspaper sites should be -- smart, clean, readable, and an extraordinary amount of content. Jump in.
Veoh is yet another video sharing site, but uniquely offers their own desktop P2P app to help distribute content.
Every song (sans one) from indie-country "it" girl Jenny Lewis is available here for free. Piracy? Nope. The web site is her record label.
Russell Beattie tosses web 2.0 under a truck with WTF 2.0. Good read.
February 2006
Bleed Designstudio has a great looking portfolio site.
Curious what typeface NBC used for their 2006 Winter Olympics promotions? Me too. I dug around for a while, and am almost certain it's Zeppelin 51 from Storm Type Foundry.
Something cool is brewing over at Wufoo
Top Ten Most Welcome Movie Deaths
Mac users with Gmail and/or Blogger accounts will dig these new Google Mac Dashboard Widgets.
Logitech comes out with a PowerMate-like input device called NuLOOQ (goofy name if you ask me) geared towards creatives using Adobe CS 2 products.
Google Page Creator is live. Browser-based, WYSIWYG web page creation that's simple, clear, and free. Mac users will need to fire up Firefox for this one.
Follow Jack Bauer as he makes his way around LA (and the world) with Jacktracker.
Bill Maher is back tonight, and not a moment too soon.
Atari 2600 code operations rendered as art. So awesome. via Coudal.
A broadcast engineer for NBC is writing a blog about the Torino Olympics; posting unofficial technical information and pictures relating to the HD television broadcast.
Sage words for designers. Live by the mockup, die by the mockup.
While everyone else is chasing drop shadows, gradients, and all kinds of visual volume, CNN International goes the other direction with a look that's completely flat, blunt, and sharp.
Fans of Macromedia Fireworks can breathe a little easier. Adobe doesn't appear to be killing it.
Yahoo! has released an open source user interface library will all kinds of goodies.
Might not be a good idea to eat Mentos and drink Diet Pepsi at the same time. Here's why.
The Altoids Singing Telegram. Check out those fancy Flash video alpha channels!
Holy cow. iStockPhoto acquired by Getty for 50 million. Just when you thought the price of stock photography was coming down to earth.
Over 500 pages of typeface specimens in the new "Linotype Typeface Catalog, A-Z." Only $16. Between this and FontExplorer, Linotype is doing some great work these days.
High-def versions of the Marie Antoinette trailer I linked to a while back.
Video interview with director Mark Romanek
The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
Loads of out-of-print recordings from Cook Records are are being added to eMusic. Plenty of interesting things to check out.
Browser-based web calendaring with 30 Boxes
Podslam is a new site for spoken word clips you can rate and download.
Loads of great interactivity at the Mercedes A to S micro site.
January 2006
Colorburn is a new Tiger widget that displays daily palettes for inspiration
How strange. An early version of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' in audio and video form. Charmingly lo-fi.
80s band Devo is back and updated as a group of kids. (via mefi)
In case you didn't know, cats can be quite funny.
From the makers of BBEdit, meet Yojimbo
Billy Bastard. Audio NSFW.
Cool collection of posters at The Poster List
Bill Maher to host a talk show on Amazon.com. Amazon getting into the original content business?
No Intel-based OS X version of CS until CS3? Wouldn't surprise me one bit. I doubt we'll see Flash updated for a while either.
ESPN.com has redesigned their home page, in case you didn't notice.
Alongside the news that Microsoft is now offering the Flip4Mac Windows Media plugin for QuickTime for free, it now appears Microsoft is also ending development of Windows Media Player for OS X.
Uh oh. Some people are going to be very disappointed. XP won't run on Intel MacBook, iMac, but they will probably run Vista.
Ditch the bulge. Levis is set to produce iPod compatible jeans.
New Intel/Apple TV ad. Very un-Apple to be promoting a processor, but considering Intel's brand awareness I guess it isn't surprising. Feels like that Bjork video.
The design of this Apple iLife '06 page is so damn pretty I could almost cry. Well, it used to be fantastic, until the QuickTime was replaced with static HTML. Still nice, but that QuickTime was hot.
Like you really need a link, but here it is anyway: MacBook Pro. I can finally retire my three-year-old, dented, crufty 12" PowerBook.
Motel Hell posts wonderful old photos of American motels. Anything but trashy, as the headline asserts.
Not sure how to get video onto that fancy new iPod? This is the last iPod video guide you'll ever need.
Adobe Lightroom Public Beta is available for Mac.
Apple plasmas to rock Macworld? Sandwich Man says so.
Let me get this straight. Apple copies Konfabulator, launches Dashboard. Yahoo! buys Konfabulator, and will now relaunch it as...Dashboard. Huh?
The Firefox Web Developer Extension has hit 1.0 with lots of new features, including a fantastic "Edit HTML" mode.
Fantastic typography at mediaBOOM
Extratasty is Flickr for cocktail recipes. Awesome stuff.
AllPeers sounds like an interesting Firefox plugin that'll undoubtedly be controversial for the file sharing.
Miami Vice, the movie. How bizarre this is returning.
December 2005
Lightbox JS is a cool little script for popping up full size images without pop up windows.
Amplifier helps creative people sell stuff. Kick ass interface.
Another year, another list of Typographica's favorite fonts of the past year.
"It seems the orange button isn't dead ... it was never alive."
Roll your own RSS reader with Google's upcoming feed API. Can't wait to see this one.
Interesting SWF movie player for OS X. Free too.
Help spread the love for standardized feed icons
The Google Zeitgeist for 2005 is out.
Thinking of buying an Apple display? May want to wait - Dell has a 30" monster coming out soon, and chances are it'll be a lot less, and with more inputs.
The Best Albums of 2005 from All Songs Considered.
Beautiful new HD trailer for Vendetta
Mac to Mac syncing without .Mac
Just start typing. Instant Domain Search
The drive for custom web typography chugs on with PHP + CSS Dynamic Text Replacement. Generates PNGs from TrueType fonts on the server-side. Works pretty well.
Some free wallpaper tile patterns from Village.
Veer has redesigned with less orange (reserved for hot spots now), bigger photos, and an updated Flont.
Trailer for Marie Antoinette, a new film from Sofia Coppola. (via Coudal)
Coming soon to HDTV: Food Network and HGTV. I can't wait for Food Network to make the jump. Those macro shots will be amazing.
Think you're the person of the year? Show all of Times Square your mug.
This article nails one of my biggest gripes about CSS - the lack of constants (or 'variables' if that floats your boat) - and how to create them with a sprinkle of PHP.
Got a question? Yahoo! has answers.
Fantastic Motorola ad that fuses an animated bunny with movie classics.
Record your desktop to a SWF with the OS X app Screen Mimic.
Who knew? The poster for Brokeback Mountain is directly inspired by Titanic.
How weird is this? You can now buy Adobe CS 2 with Flash 8.
CNN Pipeline is live
If I had the room, I would love to have my Dominey Design logo made into one of these bookshelves.
Got questions about Apple's new Aperture? Chances are you'll find plenty of answers in this lengthy hands-on review.
November 2005
Is this the sound of O'Reilly falling apart? Sure sounds like it.
Here we go again. Another CSS drop shadow technique for photos and block elements that seems to be the cleanest, easiest, most flexible of the bunch.
It's official. Firefox 1.5 is final and ready for download.
Eye Level is a cool new blog from The Smithsonian Art Museum.
How put your Mac to sleep by sending a text message
It's not a blog. It's Doodleblog
Show your love for Sony with this t-shirt.
Mix your own Beastie Boys track with these official a cappella audio files.
Bush was right! Kind of catchy. Heh.
Manage your iChat logs with the spiffy Chat Transcript Manager from Unsanity. Works with Adium and iChat.
What to do with Arrested Development now that it appears to have been killed, again, by Fox. Loads of great ideas in here. Any show with a following could use these, cancelled or not.
Creepy promotional site for the movie Tideland
Pruned is an unusual, inspiring blog devoted to landscape architecture. Always something interesting to see and read.
Inspired by FrontRow, MediaCentral is a free app with similar functionality, but includes support for EyeTV and third party remotes.
Shop by color with this awesome Flash app at Etsy
Is there a smaller, more powerful, 15" Intel PowerBook with built-in iSight coming in two months? AppleInsider thinks so.
Got a question in need of some anonymous feedback? Check out Say-So by my friends at Twinsparc, which was mentioned today in USA Today.
Japanese promotional site for Macromedia Studio 8. Flash Player 8 required.
Enjoy Greener Grass. Cute site.
Talk is cheap. Get a dollar from Google for every person you switch from IE to Firefox with Explorer Destroyer.
Watch out! Angry icons on the loose!
What do you get when you mix Flash 8's ActionScript filters with the Yahoo! Maps API? Arrrgh - a pirate map! Your turn Google.
Can't put into words why, but I love the design of the Repisa bookshelf lamp.
Yahoo! Maps, powered by Flex. Wanna get all geeky with it? Check out the Maps API for developers.
One of the better character entity references.
Minnetonka High School percussion group playing DJ Shadow. (Direct link to the WMV)
A tax return that can fit on a 4x6 index card? That and other tax reform ideas are coming tomorrow.
Loads of unique household items can be found at Elsewares independent art and design
BIG Flash ahead - Wolf Creek
October 2005
I have no idea what's going on at HondaSweetMission (some kind of audio blog, I guess) but it's quite interesting.
Get to know Grep and BBEdit
London calling. Last.fm is looking for a graphic designer.
Blast from the past, Finderpop is back for OS X
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. Are you scared yet?
Is that Flash? Nope. It's moo.fx, a super lightweight library of effects.
Sad Democrat? Become a Republican. Here's how.
In case you weren't aware, the world is going Comcastic!
FontExplorer X FC3 is out! If you're a designer and haven't downloaded this yet, WTF are you waiting for?
Well that didn't take long. Front Row is being distributed online, and works on any Mac. Apple? Can you take a hint?
Check out this amazing multiplayer game made in Flash for the Legend of Zorro movie.
Coudal, 37signals, and A List Apart have formed an advertising network called The Deck.
Mean Tangerine has relaunched with pixel fonts, stock, Keynote themes, and more.
UNO gives your whole interface in OS X a consistent appearance.
colorcalm sells audio/visual ambient wallpaper for your television
Introducing the official H2 salute.
Curious what your favorite PC game looks like on one of those fancy widescreen displays? Check out this collection of comparison screenshots.
The original 'Night of the Living Dead' in its entirety. Flash Player 8 required.
Tape it off the Internet. Real? Who knows. Sign me up.
Atlanta has a logo. And coming soon, an anthem. Some people are coming up with their own slogans.
20 best license-free official fonts
Fans of Aphex Twin should check out "Acoustica", a classical interpretation by Alarm Will Sound
Instead of going all 1024/fat-pipe like their competitors, GameSpot has slimmed down with a redesign much less reliant on graphical widgets and chrome. More abundant use of CSS.
The five reasons social networking doesn't work.
Get an early look at what Macromedia is working on in Macromedia Labs, a new site with alpha software, wikis, forums, and lots of Flex.
Stream video wirelessly to your PSP with LocationFree. At home, or on the road.
A look at the upcoming Measure Map blog stats package from Adaptive Path.
The origin of CTRL-ALT-DELETE. Bill Gates' face? Priceless.
The Noguchi Filing System is a unique way to get your crap organized.
Need a design concept fast? Try the The Ad Conceptor
In the spirt of the now classic Shining trailer (which was picked up in the NY Times) comes West Side Story remixed as a horror movie.
Not sure how I missed this, but FontShop has a nice typography blog.
Turner's new GameTap is out of beta and live. Two week free trials available.
September 2005
Check out Shining, a hilarious remix of Kubrick's 'The Shining' if it were a generic, feel-good film released today.
FontExplorer user on OS X? Select "Check for update..." in the FontExplorer menu. FC 2 is out!
Look inside the making of Flash 8
Future web developers will have it so easy. Check out the proposed CSS3 Multi-Column Module. Damn them.
Treehouse is a new PDF magazine for web developers. Sign up for the free inaugural issue.
Capote looks like one hell of a vehicle for P.S. Hoffman. Looking forward to seeing this.
If you have HBO, don't miss Extras. Last night's premiere cracked me up.
Google Video has dumped VLC and is now using Flash.
Well how about that. Microsoft has released a web developer toolbar for IE.
Got a PSP or an LCD screen with a dead pixel? This may fix it.
XML Nanny is a free OS X app for testing XML/XHTML validity
Flock is coming. Keep an eye on this one.
In an effort to better secure their browser, Microsoft has confirmed ActiveX will be optin in IE 7. In other words, off by default.
Time Magazine looks inside the iPod nano
Linotype is getting into the font management software biz with FontExplorer X which looks like iTunes for fonts. And guess what? It's a free beta, and will be a free final app as well. The end of Suitcase?
Flash 8 is now available for download!
Big ideas come out of big pencils
Planning to buy Windows Vista? Get ready to choose between seven separate editions. Sounds like fun.
Quark tries to dress up their sinking ship with a new identity. Too bad someone else had the idea first.
Control Azureus (on OS X) remotely with the Azureus Dashboard Widget. Just drop a torrent on the frog.
Sim Daltonism is a handy OS X app that simulates color blindness. Great for testing designs and color palettes.
No, it isn't a BMW. Check out the new M5 created by Armchair Media here in the ATL.
Gruber has released a free CSS syntax checker for BBEdit that's worth checking out.
Nano! Nano! Nano! | The shot heard 'round the world.
Joshua Darden's new Omnes typeface is very clean, warm and cuddly.
Freshen up your web stats with Mint. Just installed it for SlideShowPro. Easy as can be.
Jazz up your PSP with a whole bunch of free wallpapers.
Two must see Katrina videos -- Cafferty Goes Off and Anderson Cooper cuts through the political BS
NPR's excellent 'All Songs Considered' has a new podcast
Sprint has a new site to go with their updated identity
A satisfying look into the design of The Daily Show's "America" book and updated set, both by Pentagram.
Now it all makes sense. The destruction of New Orleans is an act of God against a wicked city. Remind me, who's the wicked one again?
Did Bush cut money for levees in New Orleans for the war in Iraq? Quite possibly.
August 2005
SlideShowPro 1.2 is out with some new goodies. Just saying.
Get control over your Mail.app inbox with MailTags, a smart organizational add-on.
Ampersands-rich URLs driving you nuts when validating your blog? Check out Amputator for MT and Blosxom.
Quickly print envelopes with Easy Envelopes, a new Dashboard widget from Ambrosia
Got Tiger? Want a free, complete CSS reference? Check out SeeSS, a fantastic new Dashboard widget.
Two giants of African music - Toure on guitar, Diabaté on kora - have joined forces on 'In the Heart of the Moon'. Check out an mp3. Magic.
I'll be damned. The always giddy Junior Senior is a pretty tight live act. Three live video links ahead.
Been a long road for all involved, but Textpattern 4 is now available
The Most Kickass FPS Guns Ever
Like flipping through a milk crate of LPs, Coverflow is the slickest iTunes cover art navigator around. Beautiful.
One of the best new features in Flash 8, especially for general Flash users - a handy video import wizard that makes publishing Flash videos easy peasy.
How cool is this? Safari supports the CSS3 specification for multiple backgrounds in a single element. Open this example in Safari 1.3 or 2.0 and view source.
Got digital crap? Want to easily share it with others? Check out Strongspace.com
Launch OS X apps old school style with the wacky MegaManEffect
There's a new mouse in town - Mighty Mouse!
DreamHost has a blog | Now the rest of the world can read the wacky stuff they send customers in their newsletter
Inspireme.tv has launched with a handful of videos including this fun behind-the-scenes look at Coudal Partners.
July 2005
So what has Microsoft been doing to improve IE's CSS rendering over the past few years? With IE 7 Beta 1, the answer is nothing at all.
Wonder why cross-domain files are a necessary pain in the arse with Flash? This slide show explains why.
Doom the movie trailer | Yeah, this looks pretty bad.
How to make Internet Explorer-specific Web applications work in Mozilla-based browsers | Or as I'd title it, how to make your web apps accessible to everyone. Very interesting read.
2.0 firmware for PSP adds a Mozilla web browser. Here's a screenshot of it in action. Check out that UI! And by the way, since it's Mozilla, could a Flash Player be next? Please say it's true.
Best Dashboard widgets for web developers
The web app Blinksale is out of beta and ready for business.
How popular are you and your contacts on AIM? AIM Fight
Signs of religion in the American South
Yahoo! buys Konfabulator | Wow. Congrats to the Konfabulator team.
Anthony Bourdain is back | My favorite Food Network show host is now on the Travel channel with a new show that looks just like the first one.
Why is Flash Player 8 so much faster on OS X? | It's using Quartz Extreme. In other words, hardware acceleration. Very nice.
MochiBot | Free swf tracking app
Strategies for CSS Switching | An excerpt of Professional CSS at Digital Web Magazine.
Typeradio.org | Now podcasting from Typecon 2005.
Did you know that VLC can play FLV files? Me neither.
When Vector Meets Photo | How to create those trendy vector people you see everywhere
The Common Desk | How to design a creatively stimulating work environment. Fun video, and the portfolio of work mixed in is fantastic.
Finding Nemo custom swimming pool | How cool. Love the shark.
Sparkplug | Firewheel redesigns their blog
What's new in Movable Type 3.2 | Chances are I'll be turning comments back on after this hits final. Some nice new features coming.
Stuff On My Cat | Because stuff placed on cats is awesome
What's it like working at Cartoon Network? Check out these internal movies and photos
Becky Carter Photographer | Seriously strange glamor shots. Check out the color examples. Via boing boing.
Design In-Flight crashes and burns | Crap
Flash Player 8 Public Beta | Very fancy installer. Be sure to check your player detection scripts against this.
MakingRoom | Beautiful new online photography magazine. And they're using SlideShowPro for each of their photographers. Very nice!
Sabadabada | Site full of 1960s Bossa Nova / Samba mp3s and cover art ripped from rare out of print records. Fantastic.
yDSF - Robust CSS Drop Shadows
Google Toolbar for Firefox now available
Too Much Bullshit | Drop dead hilarious critique of why blogs suck
RJD2 'Since 76' Video | iTMS music video link
David Byrne critiques Freedom Tower | "...a big fuck you to the rest of the world at the entrance of NY harbor"
All Things Considered podcast (iTMS link) | No content yet, but it'll (hopefully) be here soon. Link has been removed
Delicious Library made $54k in profit first day | ...and other nuggets of Mac software development insight in Wil Shipley's WWDC presentation
Frank Gehry's vision of Brooklyn
Make-A-Pass Dashboard Widget | Very handy if you need a random password generator
Best Live 8 viewing was online | My thoughts exactly. Half of MTV's broadcast was commercials and correspondents yapping.
Proxima Nova is now available from Mark Simonson | Would make a nice alternate to Avenir
What if corporate America sponsored album covers? | Hilarious Photoshoped album covers. I'll take the Guns n Roses one on a tshirt
Eric's Universal Child Selector | If you know CSS, you have to read this. Very handy.
Too Cool for IE | How snarky.
Our foray into mobile | Macromedia has an "Experience Design Team" with a new blog
June 2005
Out: Flash Player
In:Flash Platform
CableYoYo | Cord management solution. Link stolen from Moll.
CNN is podcasting | Note the orange "POD" badges. Expect to see these everywhere.
IKEA Atlanta Flickr photos | People have been camping out for days waiting for today's opening. Seriously. Who knew there was such high demand for saggy bookshelves made of particle board.
ShortStat Widget | So nice
Public Radio Podcasts | Come on Fresh Air...gimme a podcast.
Screenshot Me! | Handy Automator workflow for automatically capturing screenshots and uploading them to a web server
King Kong Trailer | First look at Peter Jackson's remake
Frusion Breakfast Brawl | Fun Flash game
ActionScript search plugin for Spotlight | OS X Flash developers continue to benefit from Chambers
Google using VLC as part of new video service | VLC is about to become a household name
Iraq War Fatalities | Fantastic use of Flash. No propaganda, just data.
Homeowners own nothing | Supreme Court rules local governments may seize your home or business for private economic development, regardless of public benefit or interest
NeoOffice/J | Native version of OpenOffice for OS X
Sony Aibos dance to Daft Punk | Wonderfully surreal
The Onion 2056 | Um, WTF? Alan Wake Trailer | Games are growing up Blinksale | New online app for managing client invoices -- coming soon. Biden running for President in 2008 | Hell yeah Website Payments Pro | New PayPal service for accepting credit card payments on your web site without ever redirecting buyers to PayPal WebVisions 2005 | Web dev conference in Oregon mid-July DataTiles | Fascinating user interface experiment video Talking with Arto Lindsay | The Morning News interviews one of my favorite artists The WebKit Open Source Project | Now open. All the source code you could want. Jaguar Urban Golf | Shockwave golf game What if John Cage had owned an XBox? Safari's search field | Very attractive, but I wish it degraded a little better JavaScript and Flash Integration Kit | "...allows developers to get the best of the Flash and HTML worlds by enabling JavaScript to invoke ActionScript functions, and vice versa" QuickTime 7 for Windows | Got Windows? Grab a public preview of the new QuickTime with incredible H.264 video 5 movies I wish people would stop quoting Quartz Composer Screen Savers | Cool experimental OS X screen savers using Tiger's new Quartz Composer app Document Palette | Fantastic OS X utility for creating new document templates anywhere in the Finder The Five-Bedroom, Six-Figure Rootless Life | Fantastic societal study of Alpharetta, GA by the New York Times
May 2005
Power Game Factory | How cool is this? Don't miss the demo movies
Pinki | OS X menu bar utility for quickly creating icon thumbnails. Great icon.
Emusic adding Sun Records catalog
ICFF | MoCo Loco is posting tons of fantastic shots from the International Contemporary Furniture Fair
Kyoto | New icon set from IconBuffet
WhatSize | Handy little OS X app for finding disk hogs
Trump has completely lost his mind
Bookmarks for web developers | Get ready to stay a while
Killzone 2 PS3 trailer | You won't believe it
Rize | QT Trailer
H.264 versus Sorenson 3 | Same file size, dramatically different results. QuickTime 7 required.
Chronicles of Narnia | Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe trailer
FontLab reselling Fontographer | Macromedia's classic (and neglected) type design software has a new home
Stephen Colbert is getting his own show | Guess he won't be replacing Stewart anytime soon
Napoleon Dynamite soundset for Adium X
CrammedBlog | Crammed Records has a new blog
xScope 1.1 is out | One of my favorite utilities has finally been updated with some cool new features
Amnesty | Toolbar utility that enables Tiger widgets on your desktop
April 2005
Apple HD Gallery | Yum. H.264 goodness.
Cisco VPN client doesn't work with Tiger | Update coming 'mid May'. Damn!
Matinee | Organizer for playing back ripped DVDs
Huh Corp | Success is a fancy logo and handful of stock photos away
Heavy Trash | See what gated suburban communities are hiding
Trackback is dead | It died for me a long time ago
MTV Overdrive is blocking Firefox Win/Mac and any Mac browser. | New business model - block half of your web audience - XP skinned gold!
MainMenu | Awesome (and free) menu-bar app for all kinds of system utility tasks
GameTap | Turner announces new MAME-like gaming network
The wildly talented type designer Evert Bloemsma has died.
IHT goes 1024 | Goodbye small monitors
Aardvark Firefox Extension | Fantastic extension for toggling page elements and manipulating them in a variety of ways.
Xylescope | Don't be scared by the lack of English. Breaks out all CSS elements from any web page in visual form. Very cool. Via Hicks.)
Glastonbury Games | Cool festival site with wacky games
How to: wirelessly control iTunes with your PSP | What a pain, what an idea
The math of Coldplay's new album cover
Orchestra Poly Rythmo de Contonou Dahomey | Promo video for new Luaka Bop compilation
In case you didn't notice, Safari was updated big time in OS X 10.3.9. More here
Trent Reznor releases free GarageBand file | How cool is that? Mashup your own version of his new single.
Tiger's 200+ New Features | Way more interesting than the top-level marketing stuff
Pontiac Solstice | This car is only twenty grand? I'll take one for the weekends.
Mail Order Chickens (deliciously weird)
Design In-Flight Issue Four | Another fantastic issue out. (And I'm not just saying that because they favorably reviewed my software)
The Face Transformer | The most twisted fun I've had in a while. Here's me if I drank a lot of absinthe
Developing Dashboard Widgets | The most exciting thing about Tiger for me. Flash, HTML, CSS JavaScript, with the ability to tap into OS-level animation effects? Drool.
Comic Life | Cool little app for building comic strips of images with iPhoto integration
Man Date (Is it gay for two straight guys to have dinner outside of a sports bar?)
The Cycle Theory (new short by my friends at Lightroom)
Pretty in Pink 2 (oh my)
Design without Reach (Wassily chair is fantastic - via Kottke)
Blue Dot desktop clock (fun little app that displays time with objects)
What's new in Adobe Creative Suite 2
Got a PSP? Turn it on -- now a lovely shade of pink.
Bassist for Guitar Wolf dies (Sad. One of my favorites)
March 2005
Geoff Sterns updates FlashObject to 1.1 (a great way to embed your Flash content)
Goowy (Flash email application)
50 Years of Braun Design (if only every Flash site had this level of restraint and usability)
Radio DavidByrne.com (where he plays DJ - also available in the iTunes Radio 'Eclectic' section)
Posterwire (great blog about movie posters)
Easter Bunny Rappers' Delight (aw come on, it's kind of cute)
Palindromes (looks deliciously weird)
Worst logo ever (so bad, so funny, you'll cry) -- Update -- the company took the logo off their site. You can now find it in this fark thread
Need a radius content box fast? Try the CSS Rounded Box Generator
Sony PSP Survival Guide (mine will be here soon. oh yes it will).
Camino Lives (and has a swanky new pad)
Pimp My Safari (throw some Dubs on that ride)
It's Official - Yahoo buys Flickr
Build half a product - not a half-ass product (and other gems of wisdom for small teams from 37 signals -- pdf link)
I Like Your Colors! (tool that extracts hex colors from any site's CSS and displays swatches -- very cool)
Amaztype (a typographic web services visualizer for Amazon)
Nearly 7 out of 10 stories on Fox News include personal opinions from reporters
Engadget RSS feed screensaver made with Quartz Composer (this is going to rock -- also check out Karelia's post about Tiger's new Core Image and Quartz Composer software)
SXSW images at Flickr -- Group 1 | Group 2
Flash Timeline Romance (why didn't I think of that?)
Drawn! (illustration blog)
Signal vs. Noise redesign (big and green)
Spike Jonze "Hello Tomorrow" Adidas ad
This is Nathan. Find him at SXSW.
Incredible Shockwave first-person shooter by rasterworks | OS X version is here
Quite possibly the sexiest floor fan ever made. Kind of looks like a huge rotating aqua icon.
Tori Amos has an attractive new site
Style Master 4 has an interesting new x-ray design pane to see the structure of CSS layouts.
NID GALLERY (amazing interface)
Saddington & Baynes (photoshop retouchers - be sure to look under 'Retouching Galleries')
Flo Control (facial recognition cat door)
Pixilate (cute site with some nice fonts and fun navigation)
Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
The new Nickel design (dramatically different positioning of content on the front)
Pixel Gasoline (really cool camera effects)
Airfoil (stream whatever you want to AirPort Express)
Roll Bounce Trailer (lovely vibe)
Shopping cart | books typography
February 2005
Local design studio Lightroom is looking for summer interns.
Konomo Nº1 promo video (more info on Konomo)
AIGA LA Interview (yep, that's me)
Efficient CSS with shorthand properties (great primer for intermediate CSS developers)
Ice Cube is...XXX (seriously now)
Tryst (share movies with Rendezvous)
Baby got Bible (oh lord)
Witch (new OS X utility to switch between windows)
Watch out. The ego is about to explode.
How to use PHP and the Drawing API to create images
Hmmm...where have I seen this before?
Transmit 3 is out (get it get it get it!)
FlySketch (draw over window contents, take screenshot -- handy for design purposes)
Halo meets Unreal Tournament (something tells me M$ won't like this - new mod now available)
The dancer behind the Gene Kelly VW commercial
Atlanta Symphony Hall design unveiled (all aboard to Saturn -- walkthrough movie too)
The Go Find - Over the Edge Video (iTMS - simple and hypnotic)
Big Government is Back (where did all the fiscal conservatives go?)
How random is the iPod shuffle function, really?
Amon Tobin discusses Splinter Cell game soundtrack
PanicGoods (Panic now selling schwag -- and check out that drag/drop shopping cart)
MSN Goes XHML 1.0 Strict (Microsoft supporting web standards? Well I'll be...)
Singing in the Rain Remix (unbelievable Volkswagen Ad -- would be even better had it been for Turner Classic Movies)
January 2005
Nike Soccer *Tiempo* (lovely, funky)
How To Build a Successful Freelance Web Design Business (interesting excerpt from an upcoming book)
ESUVEE (prepare for the beast -- NY Times article about the campaign)
Ultrashock Audio Essentials (available on 2CDs, or buy just the effects as a download)
The World of Nat King Cole (interesting album cover for new box set)
Dean of Architecture (nice overview of the late architect Philip Johnson and his work)
Absolutely Fabulous (why every designer should be watching Project Runway)
365: AIGA Year in Design 25 (nice Flash interface and design)
Jay McCarrol from Bravo's Project Runway has a nicely designed online portfolio.
Coca-Cola Chill 2005 (beautiful Flash mixer)
165 Apple commercials (torrent of nearly every Apple TV ad before the iPod)
Apple.com looking for a web designer (extra points if you're friends with Eric Meyer or Rich Siegel. Seriously.)
TypeWorks (new blog/CMS software to be released soon)
The Yellow Ruth (sad but true -- headers are nearly unreadable)
Print Magazine redesign (mag has completely redesigned with custom Gothan Rounded face by Hoefler & Frere-Jones -- worth a look on newsstands)
iPSP (Sony PSP utility for OS X)
Three approaches to Flash component event handling (nice article for Flash devs)
Apple's Tipping Point (fantastic diagram explaining Apple's product matrix)
kid o - Modern Design for Children
Bare Bones is now offering TextWrangler as freeware (effectively BBEdit lite)
Alternative Motivational Posters
Wallter - paintable wall applications (such a great idea -- via MoCo Loco)
December 2004
Firefox Adbar (so snarky)
100 Sound Effects for 1 Dollar (sweet deal)
Happy Holidays from Macromedia (more penguin fun)
Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing
How to make super tiny oranges
Blockbuster drops late fees (with a catch -- keep it too long, you buy it)
ADxMenu (another css-powered drop-down menu system)
Game Agent (smart little OS X utility to compare your hardware with the system requirements of Aspy's games)
Google Suggest (auto-complete Google search beta)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Trailer (this actually looks less scary than the original)
Web Design in 2005 (what's in, what's out, whatever)
Thunderbird's Extreme Mac-over (a look at the recent UI overhaul of Thunderbird on the Mac)
Hacking the iPod (love the bitmap fonts and icons)
Whistler's Delight (22 track mash-up of famous whistling moments in popular music -- via waxy)
Anti-Aliasing Tweaks (great Photoshop tip for better Photoshop typesetting)
Five Mistakes Band & Label Sites Make (I especially like his classification of Flash as cilantro)
Mashing for Beginners (how to create mash-ups -- via Music Thing)
dotMac Menu (quick and handy menu bar utility for .Mac users)
Dressing the Sopranos (a costume designer's notes -- lots of interesting trivia)
Firefox on ABC News (how bizarre, and wonderful, to see news segments like this)
I have absolutely no use for it, but I adore the Monacca Bag
November 2004
David Byrne has a blog (he gets a bad haircut, cries watching The Incredibles, and scribbles other notes from the road)
DeskShade 2 (power app for desktop imagery)
Got Sundance? Don't miss Keepintime, a must see for beat-heads. Also see the online trailer.
BroadCatching (how to use RSS and BitTorrent to automatically download TV shows)
The Complete U2 now on iTMS (unbelievably huge -- more Bono than you will ever need)
Benn loxo du taccu (West African mp3 blog with rare music and perspective)
Roxio Popcorn (new app for copying and burning DVDs from the makers of Toast)
New York Times reviews the new MoMA (from its "triumphant" architecture to "appalling" ticket prices)
Designer Checklist (still relevant, still funny)
Kontrapunkt (Danish Design Prize winner for best typeface of the year, and they're giving it away for free)
John Ashcroft Sings (bye bye Johnny)
Pink Martini (back with a new album - listen to the whole thing at their site)
The Grey Video (everyone else in the world is linking to this, but what the hell, here's one more)
The Lost Apple Switch Ads (tons of 'Switch' campaign spots never aired -- including Perry Farrell, Wanda Sykes, Will Ferrell, Christopher Guest, and my fave Gianni Jacklone)
Clientcopia - Stupid Client Quotes (a must read for anyone in design -- here's my true story)
AMG for mobile phones (quick and dirty listing of Atlanta concerts)
David Lee Roth is a New York paramedic
The Power of CNN Under Your Command (funny new campaign for CNN.com)
What Barry Says (QuickTime animation -- via Typographica)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (is that Futura I see, Wes?)
The True Story of Audion (the Mac mp3 player that almost was iTunes, and is now being retired)
The Ed Benguiat Font Collection (new from House Industries - "Interlock" looks especially nice with 1,400 ligatures)
World of Warcraft Trailer (beautiful stuff -- if only the game looked this good)
iAlert (cool little OS X app for tracking web page updates and local events)
RetroPlayer (brilliant OS X app that plays your mp3s as if they were old records)
Nice XTC t-shirt (from the English Settlement album cover - one of my all time favorite bands)
EquusArts (Equestrian art gallery - interface sucks, and the photos could be larger, but it's still worth a look)
Rufus Wainwright - Want Two Preview
Cars trailer (Pixar is already promoting their next feature - pick "SUV" if you have a big pipe)
Ugly Doll ('Tray' keeps watch over us in the office) | Interview with their creator
County by county breakdown of election results (incredible)
October 2004
MSNBC's blogs are now available in a handy RSS feed (full content would have been nice...grumble)
Pitchfork reviews Eminem's "Mosh"
Never Forget: Internets Vets for Truth (one stop source for election related video - fancy design too)
Dick Cheney is Scarface (headphones required if at work -- hilarious)
The Economist endorses Kerry (and in other news, hell freezes over)
Super Mario Brothers on Ice (oh my, this video is just awful)
David Lanham's Somatic theme for OS X (fuzzy, textured, and silly, this new ShapeShifter theme is really fun to use)
The Wired CD (Fantastic track listing. Free, and legal here from Nixlog)
Building Letters (latest issue now available -- includes a great selection of free fonts (India is especially nice), two posters, and the money goes to charity)
HTML Character Converter (OS X service for converting funky characters)
DropCopy (cool little desktop app to quickly move files between networked Macs via Rendezvous)
Nextgen Flash Player video demo (what's next for Flash)
Portland Studios (simply outstanding studio portfolio site)
Tattoos Translated (blog chronicling the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture)
CatPrin - Tailor for Cats (an old favorite updated with Engrish -- now twice as funny)
Zanzibar (typeface that's practically begging for a applicable project)
Chicken Fight (Burger King does it again - go Spicy!)
How to turn a CD spindle into a lamp
Swift 3D 4 for OS X now available
Ruler favelet (brilliant Moz/Firefox/Safari utility)
Left Justified (funky, fun blog design)
Downtown by Philippe Starck (unbelievable NY living residences)
Paul Shambroom, Meeting Series (the power, at work)
Seriously now, who thought this Kings of Convenience video was a good idea? (iTMS)
We cannot endorse Bush (Tampa Tribune, which has endorsed every Republican candidate for president since 1952)
Get ready old school gamers, the (originally built in Flash) Alien Hominid is about to be released for the consoles.
Firefox Full Page NY Times Ad (new Spread Firefox campaign raising money to place ad)
We voted for Bush in 2000. We're voting for Kerry in 2004. (new ads directed by Errol Morris)
Turner Classic Movies iTMS mini-site (iTunes link)
George Bush Action Figure (question is, does it come with a sock?)
Frontline - The Choice 2004 (entire program)
Without a Doubt (the faith-based presidency)
Collaborative fridge letters (other uses keep stealing my characters)
Apple Self-Checkout Machine (the G5's mother)
DailyCandy (lovely typography and warm illustrations)
In Which Nothing Worked (Dean, and the dogs, finally update their site)
drewmedia Studios (simple, straightforward Flash portfolio site -- reminds me of Kurt Noble)
Star Wars - The Changes (I'm not all that into Star Wars, but I found this collection of before/after images amazing)
BMW M5 (good lord these videos are huge)
Lego, The Type Designer's Friend
Virus Music (beautiful mix of sound and style)
David Pogue reviews the OQO (NY Times -- interesting that it was designed by two former Apple laptop designers)
Freedumb (fantastic wood type font with all proceeds donated to Moveon.org -- even has a version lacking the 'W' -- how snarky)
Shiira (yet another WebKit-enabled OS X browser with unique features)
George Wedding is using my Flash slide show source with great results
Miss the debate? NY Times is offering it all here (in Flash video with chapters no less)
Cellphone users could decide the election
Vinyl (free Mac/Win plug-in to add that sexy turntable vibe to your digital audio)
PhoneAgent (very robust OS X utility for Sony Ericsson mobile phones)
ABC News redesign (interestingly, they're shuttling IE 5 users to an upgrade page -- xhtml/css throughout)
BBEdit ActionScript 2 Language Module
Zoomquilt (nutty shockwave project)
Give Bush a Brain Game (if only it was this easy)
XBox to Flash video tutorial (actual video here)
Behind the Volvo V50 web site (interviews with the company and the designers)
TextMate 1.0 (brand new, much hyped OS X text editor and potential BBEdit killer)
September 2004
.Mac storage increased to 250MB
Sony PSP Video (I was going to get one anyway, but this video seals the deal)
Just in time for the weekend: UT2004 Editor's Choice Bonus Pack (note to Mac/Linux users: open the downloaded *.exe using any zip decompression tool)
Zipdecode (zip code visualizer built with Processing)
10 CSS tricks you may not know
How to draw a cruise ship in 720 hours
Public betas of MarsEdit and NetNewsWire 2.0 now available.
ESPN Motion web interface (new online version of ESPN's video library that thankfully avoids the desktop)
Paparazzi! (simply perfect OS X utility for capturing screen shots of web sites)
Lori Ann Music (bandwidth sucking monster of a Flash site)
QuickTransit (incredible, if true)
Bush's records faked? Typography the smoking gun?
Eyetrack III (how average web users view web pages)
Bush's thoughts on OB-GYNs (video)
The Water Cube (be sure to watch the Flash video - via Antipixel)
In Da Cab (kinda dumb, but hey)
August 2004
sIFR (updated method from Mike Davidson for setting type with Flash)
Skype for OS X is here
Tidy Service (handy new OS X service for running HTML Tidy)
Sticky Windows (OS 9 style tab window utility)
Teleport update (one of my favorite utilities is back in action)
Mohawk Paper (redesign -- interesting navigation)
Chris Matthews takes on Michelle Malkin (fascinating video)
Julie West (illustration portfolio)
Jaws in 30 seconds, with bunnies
Mikro Mart (fun little ditties -- I have 'Jungle')
MOZiE (free Windows app to compare html in Mozilla / IE simultaneously — genius)
Game Videos Archive (huge new archive of promotional, speed runs, etc.)
Olympukes Font (don't miss the free download of Legato Bold (from Evert Bloemsma) on the same page)
Johnny Cash estate auction at Sotheby's (amazing collection)
Take-Away (Macromedia news on your iPod)
Transformers Boogaloo (thanks Cam)
Letterpress documentary (web designers the world over cringe with envy -- via signals)
Music Plasma (relational artist engine - via moock)
Antony Hare (solid illustration portfolio - Kubrick is wonderful)
James Brown TV Interview (oh boy)
Andrew Childs Typography (collection of free/pay bitmap typefaces - 'Dumont' is especially nice)
July 2004
Saab or Dodgeball? (or, why Gill Sans sucks)
Calendarclock (sweet menu bar calendar which integrates with iCal)
White House West with Will Ferrell
Didn't catch Barack Obama's keynote last night? Watch a video of it here.
Fly The Copter (simple, addictive Flash game)
Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends (love the usage of Brothers)
Flash MX 2004 7.2 is finally available (huge update - over 100 bug fixes)
Smultron (nice open source Cocoa text editor - via mesh)
Bounce Script (new Letterhead font -- I'm such a sucker for these)
You Have Bad Taste in Music (don't miss the videos - Train and Evanescence are especially good)
Play Time Icon Set (with open states too)
Iron & Wine video (Couldn't find an online version, so I extracted one from the iTMS. Lovely summer vibe.)
Paper Mario 2 (what in the world is this?)
Parkspliced (Blur mashup)
Is IE Living on Borrowed Time?
Winnebago Man (headphones required if at work)
Ali G's Harvard Commencement Speech
Bitoogle (Google for torrents)
Fudge - Typographic Putty (engine for manipulating font outlines through ActionScript)
Drifting Videos (racing style that's all the rage in Japan)
Frontline: The War Behind Closed Doors (imo, the real Fahrenheit 9/11)
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
The Dashboarder (developers are already creating and sharing Dashboard widgets)
Bean bag toss game (Christian Moerlein beer - must be 21, or capable of selecting an older year than yourself)
Spotlight-like live search (great idea - via waxy.org)
IE Mac Band Pass Filter (how to easily target IE 5 Mac in CSS)
The Constructivists (20s typographic glory)
Mozangeles ('what is it about Morrissey that attracts Latinos?')
Kings of Convenience Jukebox (listen to their new album, Riot on an Empty Street, in its entirety)
Downloads of Firefox & Mozilla increasing, user base doubling every few months
Dropload (space to drop and share files)
June 2004
Apple's Dashboard widgets are 'web pages' (interesting note from Hyatt -- this means QuickTime, Flash, Java, CSS, etc can be used to build them)
Dashboard 'Flip' Effect (one of the new 'Core Image' methods Apple is bundling into 10.4, which will be available to any app)
Video of Steve Jobs' WWDC Keynote
Safari RSS (video preview of Safari RSS, to be included in 10.4)
One of my all-time favorite OS X apps, Watson, has been sold and will cease development. Drat.
Fox News Ringtones (creepy)
Whitney (beautiful new sans-serif from Hoefler & Frere-Jones)
Boycott Advance (utterly fantastic)
Morning Craft (attractive site sellng handmade accessories for the home)
Will the browser apply the rule(s)? (very handy chart for css hackery)
gCount (displays number of unread Gmail messages in the OS X menu bar)
CSS Vault (guaranteed to make anyone sick of drop shadows)
The lies of Michael Moore (by Christopher Hitchens)
Preview the new Wilco album - 'A ghost is born'
Joystiq (new video game weblog)
Apple and BMW to announce iPod car adapter
Mandolux (loads of large cinema display desktops)
Youngpup's interview with Microsoft (interesting walkthrough of what the process is like)
Image*After (free textures and photography for designers)
Full Color Bossa (very stylish new screen saver)
Critiques of the new TBS identity
In depth preview of Apple Airport Express
Flash animation video tutorial by Chris Georgenes (fantastic Breeze presentation outlining the artists' tips and tricks)
100watt Network (modern architectural lighting - anyone else have a good resource?)
MailHere (slick mail notification app for OS X)
CableNewser (great blog for cable news junkies like me)
Web Essentials '04 (web standards conference down under)
Macromedia / Speedera team up to offer video streaming service
The Onion interviews Chip Kidd
Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow (or, "former M$ technology manager buys a G5")
New from House Industries: Neutraface Condensed
May 2004
The Spanish Ministry of Education has 5000 free sounds in mp3 and wav. (via design-nation)
The oh so luscious Komeda is back with a new video (via Coudal)
Archinect has redesigned with plenty of porn.
First 5 Minutes of Shrek 2 (saw it last night -- better than expected)
Inquisitor (searches Google as you type)
Lord of the Rings Icons (from Iconfactory)
Screen on the Green 2004 (Cloris Leachman, Robert Redford & Jane Fonda to introduce respective films in this year's Piedmont Park movie festival)
Headless Hollow (great mod of my Blogger 'Scribe' template)
Jon Stewart's Commencement Address
HyperEdit (fantastic HTML / CSS / Javascript / PHP editor that renders live previews as you type)
Connect Flash MX 2004 to MySQL with PHP (handy new tutorial)
Adtunes (nice resource for TV commercial ad music)
Soorikian Furniture (nice site for furniture company in my neck of the woods)
Retro Nintendo (I knew the DS looked familiar!)
Badger Shirts (I'm so buying one)
New Zelda game trailer (updated 5/21 with link to larger version)
KDLAB motion graphics reel (also visit their full portfolio)
Pruning Excess Fonts in OS X (nice roundup of font optimization tips)
States with highest IQ vote Democrat
Wonder which technique Rumsfeld will use today.
iTMS Extractor (save iTunes Music Store music videos / trailers to your hard drive)
Flash MX 2004's Undocumented Tween / Easing Classes (I'll bet a lot of Flash developers haven't heard of this yet - great tutorial)
Share Clip (free clipboard sharing app for OS X, Windows, Linux)
April 2004
Holy cow, Amazon sells some horrible tshirts
Redneck Woman (I love the typography on this iTunes single)
Gush for OS X released (very slick Flash/Jabber-driven instant messenger and rss reader)
iTunes 4.5 is out (includes new 'iMix' allowing users to publish personal mixes with liner notes to the store - very cool)
A little over 50% of web users now have Flash Player 7 (an increase of 20% in four months)
I Gave My Cat an Enema (the drawings are priceless)
Colin Moock's Essential ActionScript 2.0 is coming soon. Flash developers place your orders.
Paper Isometrique (handy little app for creating isometric grid templates)
Dimensionizer (every OS X web developer should download this)
Grape Mashing Fiasco (14mb video)
Butterfly Machine V.2 (via Pixelsurgeon)
Transformers (not my style, but come on - nostalgia fiesta)
Type on the Web (a few of my thoughts on web typography)
Need OS X style buttons? Quickly? Check out Button Builder.
Emiliano Rodriguez (funky, fun Flash portfolio site)
Remember when you could print a Finder window in OS 9? Now you can in OS X with Print Window.
Do you have what it takes to debate George and Carolyn from The Apprentice? If so, ebay is auctioning a boardroom visit.
Wallpaper* has relaunched
Custom Easing Tool 1.1 (another amazing easing extension from Ladislav Zigo)
The Onion interviews David Byrne
A9 (Amazon web search goes live)
Jordan's Furniture Room Planner (cool little Flash app for general interior design needs)
Bad ass iPod Mini custom car install (also listening to Bone Thugs & Harmony no less)
Mayang's Free Textures (huge collection)
MP3Concept: A Mac MP3 virus or hoax?
Mad Cow (headphones required)
Spring, Summer, Fall Winter...and Spring (looks beautiful)
NYC's Olympic Logo (I agree. It sucks.)
Fire House (fantastic new display typeface from Tom Kennedy)
Tax Tips for Graphic Designers
Free Menu Calendar for OS X (simply perfect)
There is only one space after a period (underlines are the devil too -- and for the record, only a bunch of Microsoft developers would forcibly embed Windows Media like that)
March 2004
Spring Jam (nice new icon set from Yellowlane)
Level Vodka (Flash site for new Absolut product)
The Passion of the Jew (South Park tonight)
UT2004 Toilet Vehicle (hidden 'easter egg' -- plunger and magazine rack are especially daft)
Newsmap (incredible visual aggregator of Google news)
Safari slowing down over time? Try this tip. (worked for me - my favicon folder was nearly 3MB)
"Jesus" is a four-letter word (this is getting ridiculous)
Erik Spiekermann has a blog (typography wonks apply - via Veer)
$12,000 gui builder released by Macromedia (spot-on title for Flex)
Citizen Kubrick (fascinating journey into Kubrick's private home and library)
Champagne Chair poster now available from DWR
Fear Platinum screenshot (the weirdest OS X theme I've seen yet)
UT2004 cheaters will have CD keys banned
William Hung sings Rocket Man (iTMS link)
Atlanta's financial contributions to Democrats and Republicans (the I-85 split is especially interesting)
Lost in Translation translation (from the whiskey commercial scene)
Double-spacing after periods (great forum discussion)
New Apple Displays? (I like it)
Dead GUI Posters (cool icon chart too)
Internet access through electrical sockets?
How to create a pixel font from scratch
Volvo V50 (very unique Flash site with *huge* byte count - makes broadband feel slow)
Your computer is dirtier than a toilet
It (love it or hate it full screen Flash interface. via Moock)
BeoCenter 2 (interesting new audio product from Bang & Olufsen)
LED Spectrum Analyser for iTunes (fantastic visual plug-in)
Michael Jackson on The Price is Right
Flash and Macromedia search plugins for Firefox (another great reason to kick the old, slow IE to the curb)
George Michael shuns music industry (will release all future music for free online)
Markdown (new text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers from the daring Gruber)
Breathewords (very unique, beautiful portfolio site)
The Exorcist in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies
Boom Selection (loads of great mp3 mashups here)
Make your own Bush / Cheney sign (oh the possibilities!) [via Wonkette]
Lance's Guide to Man Grooming (money quote: "And really, when you're my age, would you rather look like me, or Jakob Nielsen?")
Charlize Theron smoking weed through an apple
Vintage arcade cocktail cabinet reproductions | Macintosh MAME Cocktail Cabinet
TOKI LineTest (interesting application for creating video line tests of animations - example video)
Poppi (new pictogram face from Emigre)
A plethora of design problems (a thorough interface design critique of self-checkout lines)
The world's two worst variable names
Owid (nice TrueType bitmap font - free too)
Speakeasy giving away 15GB iPods to new customers. Wish they ran this when I signed up.
BMW's Easter Egg (an easter egg in a car?)
Beijing's Great Hall of the People (beautiful color palette)
HP finds webloggers aren't the most original
SpongeBob SquarePants is Black?
AIGA Atlanta (has a great XHTML / CSS site with a unique, table-less layout)
M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Village'
Gucci (Recent redesign? Seamlessly blends Flash and HTML)
Sopranos Promo Photo (I can't take my eyes off of this. Oddly classical, Renaissance-like, yet creepy as hell)
Howard Dean didn't really want to be President ("...I'm now afraid I might win")
Tiger Woods in Caddyshack (new American Express ad)
Mean Tangerine (new bitmap type foundry with 82 original faces)
February 2004
Digital Kitchen's 'Sopranos' Campaign (includes QuickTime)
The Cat with Hands (so...very...strange)
Apple Store San Francisco Photo Gallery
Kuma Reality Games (bizarre trailer for game based on current international conflicts)
"[Bush] has now made the Republican party an emblem of exclusion and division and intolerance" (source may surprise you)
Behind the singing rodents in the Quiznos ad
Latest beta of Textpattern is out (style editor is especially interesting)
Voice navigation and embedded apps the future of OS X?
My friend Nathan Steiner wins Veer's latest lightboxing contest
Los Zafiros - Music From the Edge of Time (can't wait to see this documentary)
In the spirit of splorp, the available domain name of the week (and up to November 2004) is ignorenader.com.
Grey Tuesday (Free the Jay-Z / Beatles mashup masterwork 2/24)
DWR Trapeze Desk (a desk that thankfully doesn't look like one)
Flash MX Keyboard (oh boy)
Polaroid warns buyers not to 'Shake It'
RSS everything at Apple (just about every Apple RSS feed you'd want on one page)
Veer launches Umbrella Type (some wonderfully silly 70s paperback romance novel scripts in there)
Nice collection of ATI Smartshader demos and screen savers for OS X to push your card to the limit.
Palm drops Mac support? (something tells me they've seen Apple's roadmap)
Here comes the scandal -- Drudge breaks Kerry's alleged infidelity (world waits to see which mainstream news outlet runs story first)
Xtream Path (cool new path editing Illustrator plug-in from CValley)
Joshua Davis (of PrayStation fame) to be on Queer Eye?
New Janet Jackson CD Cover (looks like a bad Photoshop job to me)
Howard Dean is now the Black Knight (how painfully true)
Managing the Complexity of Content Management
Firebird is so 2003 (hello Firefox)
Reason #4389 why I don't understand sports fanatacism
Red books and blue books (via Sullivan)
The Grey Album (amazing concept album mixing Jay-Z's "Black Album" with the Beatles' "White Album") [thanks to bump for the copy]
Atlanta news: Loca Luna, Masquerade, others potentially moving to Underground Atlanta | More coverage at the Atl. Business Chronicle
Patagonia finds HTML beats rich media for e-catalog (would love to see the "rich" version, which I assume was Flash) [via Jesse Warden]
Cascading Severity Sheets ("...CSS is a poor design tool.")
Build Your Own Browser (O'Reilly tutorial on how just about anyone can roll their own web browser using Safari's WebKit) [via Fireball]
Gush (new Flash-based Jabber client for Windows)
Gorbachev to Trademark His Forehead
Flash developers: the last page turn engine you'll ever need
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Let Your Body Rock (iTunes Music Store)
January 2004
Disecting Howard Dean's Implosion
Flash Platform Engine Demo (amazingly fast platform engine currently under development)
James Brown 'Smoking Gun' icon
Hotel Magritte (surrealist screensaver for OS X)
Digiquaria (new Shockwave site inspired by water life)
How I PC'd a G5 (turns out to be a hoax)
Unison (brand new usenet client from the Panic crew)
President Bush wants some ribs (ridiculous transcript of his rib shack visit.)
Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry (not sure about the textual content, but there are a handful of great historical photos)
Hey Ya, Charlie Brown! (via boingboing)
Bizarre Love Triangle (nice animation. via the surgeon)
Wonkette (new D.C. gossip and political buzz page from the Gawker empire)
iTunes Music Store RSS Feed Generator (Very, very cool. Includes artwork too. via MacMinute)
Atlanta beltline (6mb QuickTime promo film for a proposed light rail system in downtown. Via Kevin Byrd).
Four's a crowd (How do the members of a string quartet play together and tour together year in, year out, without killing each other?) [via randomfoo]
Best Wrapping Paper Ever (and it uses my script!)
Mail.appetizer (nice mail notification app)
Not Fooling Anybody (poor conversions of storefronts)
Old Bird Still Hates the Nazis
Dean Loses It (in more ways than one)
General Wesley Clark's Argyle Sweater is on eBay
Michele D'auria (interesting Flash music video)
Amazing sidewalk art (you've never seen sidewalk-chalk art like this. scroll to bottom for best stuff. link via coudal)
MovableType 2.66 is Out (provides extra comment spam protection)
Disney Selling 'Celebration' Suburban Community (the utopia crumbles)
Mind Wide Open (Steven Johnson's latest book is out)
Donkey Konga (fun for the whole family!)
Lord of the Rings in OS X (fun easter egg)
How to wrap your friend's apartment in tin foil: a love story (Warhol chuckles)
Champaign Chair Contest Finalists (DWR posts gallery of winners)
G5 Skateboard (put that beast on wheels)
Splat! (the worst films of 2003)
Kong (unbelievable set of King Kong related icons)
360-degree QTVR of Mars (created from rover panorama released today)
Subaru Scumbags (Subaru modifies sedan design to avoid fuel economy / air pollution standards)
Howard Dean bumper-sticker may get you killed
100 Most Often Misspelled Words (guilty, as charged)
Medium Footware (check out 'Collections' - had no idea Eric Meyer designed shoes)
Milk (the "Black Milk" version of this OS X theme is fantastic)
Doug Engelbart (Engelbart reflects on his groundbreaking achievements)
Playlist to DVD (creates a DVD from an iTunes playlist with on-screen album art and nav. One caveat: requires iDVD 4, which isn't out yet)
PXL Vision (recreate the look of the 80's Fisher-Price PXL toy camcorder in iMovie)
The Making of the Money Shot (how Howard Dean appeared as tall as Bill Bradley)
A Big Garage (Gruber nails why GarageBand exemplifies the differences between Apple and Microsoft)
Web Developer Toolbar for Mozilla / Firebird (Very handy suite of tools right in your toolbar. Visit the page in either Moz/Firebird to install. Relaunch browser. Presto.)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (just looks amazing)
Retrolounge (collection of links to designs of bygone eras)
First Aqua, then brushed metal, now wood grain and powder-black steel? (Apple monkeys with the OS X interface once again)
Reality Sucks. Films Are Cool. (via Coudal)
What You Can't Say (via Veen)
Kinky Breakout (not workplace safe in some areas)
Director MX Preview (of note: it now supports JavaScript, so there's no Lingo learning curve. But...why not ActionScript?)
PodQuest (sweet little app for copying MapQuest driving directions to your iPod)
December 2003
How a homeless transvestite became a national hero in Italy (via Sullivan)
Gawker Media steals design? (interesting debate)
What today's game designers could learn from Space Invaders
OurType (beautiful Flash-driven type foundry with an incredible sample generator)
xPad (new OS X text editor / organizer from Maniacal Rage)
The Buzz Aldrin Punch (classic video)
What's changed in Flash Player 7.0r19 (includes important updates concerning cross-domain policy files)
Does this work? Don't think so.
Fog of War (Official Site) | Trailer
Pssst - Steve Jobs. Look Here. (I'd love a tiny PowerBook like this)
Capturing Saddam Hussein (excellent collection of photos, audio, and video from NY Times)
Is Mrs. Eaves dead? (I vote no -- still one of my favorite faces)
Mike of 'Vagabonding' is finally home
Thesaurus Musicarum 2003 (Pitchfork Media's printed collection of the year in music)
Holiday Champagne Chair Contest
Hey it's Bob! That guy from The Bachelor! Buy my crap album!
The Least Essential Albums of 2003
DJ Andy Smith - Document II (mp3 streams of Smith's new hip-hop, classic soul and funk mix cd)
How to make an OS X icon: free tutorial (StuffIt file) from Railhead Design
BushOut.TV (weblog for 2004 campaign ad critique and coverage)
Goudy Specimen (type specimen book shared by Fountain)
Flash for Server Geeks (gimme a break)
EVB Record-O-Matic (Flash Communication Server-driven holiday greeting machine)
SCO delivers questionable source code to IBM, on 1 million sheets of paper.
When Good Design is >= Bad Product
Top Ten things you didn't know about Kris Kristofferson
What does 5,000+ people standing in line, in the rain, outside the Tokyo Apple Store look like?
Ruben Gonzalez of Buena Vista Social Club has died
XmasBash (cool Shockwave game. Be sure to watch the 'behind the scenes' trailer)
35 new fonts from Mark Simonson ('Raster Gothic' is surprisingly legible for a bitmap font)
Biddi Biddi | Biddi Biddi Biddi
SnowSaver (oldie but goodie screensaver)
LightController (in case you always wanted a freeware OS X app to interface with RGB lights through a LanBox.)
Did you know Bill Maher has a blog?
Migrating from Macromedia Flash MX to Flash MX 2004 (nice succinct article)
A gallery of vintage Christmas lights (via Coudal)
Jackson Pollock (move your mouse)
Curb Your Enthusiasm Season One coming soon on DVD.
The New Netscape Navigator (yeah, THAT will be popular)
$299 PC from AOL (smart deal. would be even better if it ran AOLinux. oh well.)
Howard Dean on Hardball (QuickTime)
November 2003
iPod's Dirty Secret (clever editing, effective message)
Adobe pulls the plug on LiveMotion
Renamer4Mac updated. Still free, still the handiest utility you can download.
Johnny Hollow (love the lady bug)
Will Ferrell - Anchorman (QuickTime preview of new movie)
How to watch Paris Hilton at work
Squeezebox (wirelessly stream audio from your computer to your home stereo or headphones)
Lana Landis (The total package - gorgeous photography, typography, design, sound, and art direction. Stellar.)
The Beautiful Mistake (amazing layers of texture)
Erik Refner, Photographer
Ala Webstatt & Chmork.net (Don't know how I've missed this -- great bitmap fonts, icons, and even gift wrap.)
Sprint redesigns with table-less CSS / XHTML
This is Cereal (Beautiful CSS experiment. Selectors are especially nice. Note: view in Safari / Mozilla / Firebird)
xScope (new suite of screen tools for designers)
Overlawyered (nice weblog 'chronicling the high cost of our legal system')
Motel Fetish (definitely not workplace safe)
Secret Santa is back
Presidential Home Page Shootout (yo Gephardt, what's up?)
The White House doesn't want you looking here
OS X screen saver picks (nice collection. fireflies is especially good.)
Mo Kin (a very happy 3 year old xylophone prodigy. found via mena.)
Shrek 2 trailer (QuickTime, 19mb)
Macromedia's Activation and Panther Woe (glad to see I'm not the only one)
Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of digital snake oil from '60 Minutes'
Jewelboxing (beautiful site and product)
How to move data from an Amiga to a PowerBook
Honda Element 'Legos' ad (via k10k)
October 2003
Culture Is Not Always Popular (AIGA presentation by Jessica Helfand and Bill Drenttel)
Ooga Chakka (yes, that is David Hasselhoff - click the 'play' button to start - how fitting they'd use a crappy Java app to present it)
Candy Toss (fun Halloween Flash game)
Safari / MovableType bug (if you use MT with Safari, watch out for this)
Avoiding Duplicate Comments in MovableType
Microsoft fires employee over G5 photos in blog
Watch out America. The Cheeky Girls are coming.
5-CD box set of unreleased Johnny Cash recordings coming next month.
Save the Gorilla (Adam Ant remakes 'Stand and Deliver'. Found via the surgeon.)
40 Mac OS X 10.3 Features, Tips, and Tricks
Elf (I hope this is good)
James Salavon - Selected projects
"Mr. Wolfowitz, Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rumsfeld, You Hate Our Troops and You've Sent Them Off To Die So Your Friends Can Get Rich” – An Hour With Michael Moore
ESPN Flash Headline Controversy (interesting debate over the use of Flash for article headlines)
How Microsoft's Misunderstanding of Open Source Hurts Us All
Danish Soundscapes (via EXP)
Apple's Latest 0.1 Adds a Lot (Panther review by David Pogue)
A List Apart 3.0 (redesigned, relaunched)
Sony Sphere Mouse (the most uncomfortable-looking mouse ever made)
3D House Built with CSS (Unbelievable. If your browser doesn't fully support CSS, the house (literally) falls down. Found via kottke.)
Disney Hall: The Opening (Flash tour of Gehry's latest work. Full coverage)
On the eve of Panther, how far has OS X evolved in a few short years? Check out this screenshot tour of OS X Developer Preview 3, which came out before the 10.0 public beta. (site is Russian - click links at bottom of copy to navigate)
Radiohead, Sigur Ros, and Ballet
The Greatest Story Never Told (Flash MX competition with loads of prizes)
Directors Label (series of DVDs spotlighting music video directors. I'd buy Michael Gondry.)
Ugly Wedding Dress (via MeFi)
Floatutorial (simple, straightforward tutorials to learn CSS floats)
Report slams Web personalization (the "my" strategy returns few benefits or profits)
Land Shark (great BMW ad)
Mid Pass Filter (new CSS 'hack' to target IE 5, and only IE 5, for Windows - via Zeldman)
Halloween Desktop Goodies (pick through the Iconfactory's patch of Halloween icons, applications, and wallpaper).
What the hell is wrong with Apple that they still give a damn about design and packaging and 'feel'? (if you've never experienced opening a new Mac, Mark Morford nails it.)
Morr Music (unique, funky, fun site that's surprisingly easy to navigate)
Type in Stockholm (beautiful collection of Stockholm street typography)
Rolling Stone RSS Feeds (news, reviews, photos, videos)
Rufus Wainwright has a stylish new web site.
"No incentive to change. No incentive to repair. No incentive to improve. No incentive to innovate." (by Slashdot anonymous. Couldn't have said it better.)
Charles S. Andersen Halloween campaign for Target
My cats would never appreciate this (cardboard box does just fine)
Bill O'Reilly walks out on Fresh Air interview
Separated at birth: Panther and Malcolm X (via GUI Galaxy)
Who voted to recall Davis, broken down by precinct (ocean seems to have an odd political effect on people)
Windows IE users, meet your new friend
OS X 10.3 (aka Panther) Coming October 24
Link to George W. Bush's Blog! Yeaay!!
AppRocket (clone of LaunchBar for Win XP)
Changes to IE plug-In technology coming early next year
"These students will soon be working with personal computers instead of Macs." (say WHAT?)
Eddie Izzard to be the next Dr. Who
Madonna Copy and Paste (Madonna unabashedly rips off photographer Guy Bourdin)
VeriSign gets smacked down (and rightfully so)
Mooch v2 (rich resource for lifestyle, culture and travel links on the web housed in a beautiful Flash interface)
Virgin Pulse (new gizmos from Virgin - love the portable TV/DVD LCD)
Flash MX 2004 Tutorials (a large collection of independent tutorials and tips from Ultrashock)
OS X 10.3 Reaches Golden Master? (Panther almost ready for retail)
Emerging issues with Flash MX 2004 (handy Macromedia technote)
Yellowlane (lovely CSS / XHTML / MT site of designer Josh Williams, master of OS X icons)
'Southerners' are disappearing
Accessible Image-Tab Rollovers (downright brilliant idea for accessible, dynamic CSS menus without JavaScript)
September 2003
Damn Ugly Hat | Poser | Can't Sleep. Clowns Will Eat Me
Lord of the Rings - Return of the King trailer
RSVP (very addictive Flash game)
Beatbox Tutorials (fantastic old-school beatbox video lessons)
Paul's Boutique Samples and References List (I still know every word)
Luxury - An Exclusive Collection of Typefaces (hilarious collection of typography used in 'luxury' goods)
The Graphic Artist and His Design Problems (reprint of classic book now available)
Lo Fi Mixtape Network (streaming mp3 mixes masquerading as mono, lo-fidelity cassette tapes)
Adobe Creative Suite (get a look at all new versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)
50 million are right, 60 million are not
World's Ugliest MP3 Player (Dell 'innovates' yet again)
The Modern's Other Renovation (a look into MoMA's "new" identity)
dform (beautiful wood punch pattern lighting)
PowerPizza II (to-go case for your laptop)
Macromedia Central public beta available (installer doesn't start in Safari, at least for me)
Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?
What You Drink Affects How You Look
Howard Dean's web staff (the crew that helped change web-based politics)
Pitchfork Media reviews Outkast's 'Speakerboxxx/The Love Below' (first paragraph spot-on description of Atlanta)
1970s OS X hard drive icons (mmm...chintz)
New version of Beatles' 'Let it Be' coming (sans Phil Spector's production)
Upstart Labels See File Sharing as Ally, Not Foe
What if Safari detected RSS feeds? (great idea from the developer of Watson)
Jukebox Type (wonderful collection of 50s and 60s inspired faces - especially adore Fenway Park and Annabelle)
The Business Value of Web Standards by Jeffrey Veen. (Print, fold, and place in your boss' inbox)
Outkast on Regis and Kelly (say...wuuuuaat?)
Queer Eye for the Database Guy
Up close with the PowerMac G5 (fabulously detailed product shots)
Auto-Save Extension for Flash MX 2004 (awesome free plug-in from Guy Watson)
WFMU Tribute to Johnny Cash by Laura Cantrell
News.com (redesign with CSS / XHTML)
Johnny Cash Transfatty R.I.P. Mix
Dana Neibert (great photography portfolio)
I've got mail, yeaaaaaay! (25mb MPG)
K Street (Soderbergh / Clooney series premiering Sunday night)
Government seals in Panther (enterprise target in sight)
QuickTime VR of Tribute in Light
Studio MX 2004 Now Available (pre-order customers can now download applications in advance of shipping product)
Spiritualized - 'Amazing Grace' (stream of entire new album)
G5 System (sweet set of OS X system icon replacements)
New Testament for Teenage Girls
The power of CSS lists (compilation of unique ways html lists can be styled via CSS)
New OS X 10.3 Welcome Movie (what users will see when installing the update)
CSS box model confuse you? Read this excellent tutorial by Bowman.
GameFly (NetFlix for games)
Web Page Analyzer (calculate page size, composition, and download time of any url - very handy)
An Open Letter from Patriot the Dog
The Onion Interviews P.J. O'Rourke
Blik Surface Graphics (great ideas for dressing up boring walls with funky graphics and/or typography. via exp)
Death of the Pixel Font (why Flash MX 2004 will drastically change typography in Flash content all across the web)
Mac Browser Showdown (ironically uses PGA.com - the site I'm working on - as a benchmark study)
About the Towels, We Forgive You
Desiree Dolron (incredible images of Cuba)
August 2003
Duck Dodgers from Cartoon Network
Defragging OS X Disks is a Waste of Time
Containing Floats (great CSS tutorial by Eric Meyer)
Ellen Degeneres (fun use of Flash MX video.)
Girl Plays Basketball with Shadow (bizarre quicktime movie. page unfortunately contains non-workplace safe banner ad).
The Official 'Fab Five' Fuckability Guide
Thank you for taking my call (hilarious prank calls to news shows)
Light and Day (video of the Polyphonic Spree song used in the iPod / VW commercial)
Weaving CSS Dreams (Bowman's thoughts on Dreamweaver MX 2004 and CSS)
Habanos (beautiful new retro script typeface from Sudtipos)
Temptation Island 3 (it's baaaaack.)
CSS in Flash Player 7 (if you know CSS, be sure to edit the sheet in the lower left to update the text field. Requires Flash Player 7 beta. Looks very promising.)
PowerPoint as Art by David Byrne. (daft commentary on corporate marketing or lack of technical skill with more robust software?)
PowerPoint is Evil by Edward Tufte
Paul Ford on All Things Considered commentating on web standards.
Google News Alerts (just launched)
What lyric directly follows the words "Blinded by the light..."?
Use Helvetica (come on now, there's more to life than the big H)
eendar (beautiful parallax effect and some nice desktops to download)
Battlestar Galactica coming back, but not without controversy.
Robotic Grass Mower Videos (funny - they 'feel' like someone on a safari capturing a rare beast in the wild)
ASCII Music Videos (ahh..if only my //e could have done these)
Using XHTML/CSS for an Effective SEO Campaign
It is an exquisitely bad movie: One to be savoured, marvelled over, shared with friends and generally appreciated in a state of awestruck wonder. Gourmet fromage." (and more, and more...)
July 2003
Dreamhost (my web host) now offering free WebDAV to their customers.
Flash Player 7 to have new auto-update / install mechanism. According to FlashGuru, it also supports the mouse scroll wheel inside text fields. Download it here.
Last 'old' Beetle rolls off assembly line at Mexican plant (they were still making those? Great photo.)
Austrian birdman falls to earth (120mph! Powered by Red Bull)
DontBuyMusic.com (snarky rip)
Blog Change Bot (updates you via AIM when a blog you like has been updated)
BuyMusic.com: Buyer Beware (the reviews are in)
How digital detectives are tracking down file-sharers
Ecotonoha (new interactive work by Yugo Nakamura - I'm in there. Somewhere.)
WackyCam (turn your iChat AV friends into a Peter Max painting)
Contribute 2 Now Available for OS X (check out that .mac integration)
Ironically, despite its name, BuyMusic.com does not actually let you "buy" music.
Flash Mobs (I SO want to get involved with this)
Safari problems bug Web developers
Jive Records (Texas-sized wallpaper and a Flash area that auto-sizes itself when user scales browser window. Click triangle in upper-left corner to reload background.)
Japanese Matrix Ping-Pong (via Pixelsurgeon)
Tony Garcia Photography (great aural ambiance, fantastic photography)
iChatUSBCam (software to use your old usb cam with Apple's new iChat AV)
Vector Video Suite 2 (nice halftone video filter from Joshua Davis)
Liz Phair responds to critics that bombed her new album.
Helvetica vs. Arial (if only stomping Arial's bastard ass were this easy)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Fantastic typography, texture, and photography)
Philosophies of Life (personal fave: "If you do fuck up, stand up and take the bullet. No one wants to listen to excuses.")
Chrysler Desktop Wallpapers (love vintage cars? Chrysler has a huge collection of great wallpapers for your desktop).
Atlanta is Nation's Fastest Growing Online City (and the most expensive broadband rates)
Finding Fela (NY Times Interactive Feature)
Gateway introduces new digital TV's
Men could reduce their risk of developing prostate cancer through regular masturbation, researchers suggest. (via plasticbag.org) And now eating pizza is claimed to help too. Insert your own joke here.
AOL Cuts Remaining Mozilla Hackers (AOL has removed Netscape logos from their building and are firing staff - oy vey)
Apple G5 beside a G4 (boy that sucker is BIG)
Dirty Pretty Things (movie trailer for new Audrey Tautou movie)
Frank Lloyd Wright gas station breaks ground
Stoveburner.com (gallery of burners from heaters and gas ranges)
Adaptive Path (lean, mean xhtml 1.0 strict/css redesign by Douglas Bowman)
Summer movie sequels are fish food
MyiSight (meet iChat AV users from around the world)
BellSouth to Offer Cheaper "DSL Lite" Service
iPhoto2Weblog ("...a plugin for iPhoto2 that exports to any weblog that supports the MetaWeblogAPI. It uploads the files to the remote server (via the metaWeblog API) and then creates a series of weblog posts with the linked images in place.")
Comparison of 10.2 and 10.3 Finder drop-downs
Chicago Tribune architecture critic reviews Chicago Apple Store (reg req)
Amazon.com Goodie Box (box of random stuff that's free after mail-in rebate)
June 2003
Two great new OSX screen effects - Firefly | 20th Century Voyage
Flipping the Bird (Gruber rips a hole in Slate's ridiculous opinion that Linux could run Apple - here we go again - out of business.)
Do Not Drag Install Safari ("You should not drag copies of Safari 1.0 or later to install them. If you do, Safari may not work, or may give unexpected results.")
National Do Not Call Registry (opened today)
Are You a Hipster? Take the Quiz.
Friends at EVB have launched a new portfolio site. Careful - deep, mesmerizing water ahead.
Man faces $250,000 fine and three years in prison for bootleg of 'The Hulk' he shared online
Bush Re-Election Site to Offer XML / RSS Feeds
Eminem Dangles Baby from Window
Laptop Dance - San Francisco's Gold Chains gives good tongue in cheek
Screenshots of OSX 10.3 (Panther) (Exposé looks wonderful)
Iraqi Man Hides for 22 Years in a Wall
Orrin Hatch - Software Pirate?
It's Time for a Change ('goodbye' weblog post from Mac IE developer)
It's Official - Internet Explorer for the Mac is Dead
The Process of Designing Solutions
President Bush Falls Off a Segway
Anything and Everything (multimedia exploration of the LOMO camera and residual community)
Cartoon Network Spoofs the Star Wars Kid
The Incredibles (trailer for Nov, 2004 Pixar movie)
Keanu is Keeping His Money (No philanthropy after all. Trash talking about Sweet November resuming).
Stalin's Bullet List (Dean Allen on Edward Tufte - "[his] books are lovely to flip through while, oh, waiting for the steamer to adjust from espresso to milk setting.")
OmniWeb 4.5 Beta (new version of the OS X browser built on top of the Safari engine - very nice)
Keanu Reeves Gives Away $50 Million to the costumes / special effects team on the Matrix. $1.75 Million for each person. If true, I swear, I'll never talk shit about him again.
May 2003
AOL Agrees to Get Under Microsoft's Desk (spot-on summary of who "won")
Monopoly or Democracy? by Ted Turner. "If these rules had been in place in 1970, it would have been virtually impossible for me to start Turner Broadcasting or, 10 years later, to launch CNN."
Fact Sheet on Bill Gates and Microsoft (no surprises, but interesting - especially the "Gates Foundation" probing)
Musical Numerology (written by my father-in-law)
Why Do Movie-Based Games Suck So Bad? (I actually remember how awful ET was)
What the Tax Cuts Mean to You (goodbye marriage penalty)
Scooby Doo is Turning Kids on to the Occult! (zoiks!)
Petition to Support PNG in IE for Windows (the rotten fruit of near zero marketplace competition in action)
Typepad (screenshots of new MT-powered hosting service posted)
How to Fake a Hard Day at the Office
Bare Bones T-Shirts (makers of BBEdit) 1 | 2
Survival of the Illest (Redman and N.O.R.E. play Def Jam Vedetta together)
Catcher Block's Bachelor Pad Game (from the movie Down With Love)
Every Day, 500 People Move to Atlanta (no wonder traffic is so awful)
Left or Right Justified Navigation: Which is Better?
Zeldman: Designing With Standards
How Microsoft Warded Off Rival (NY Times, reg required)
David Lanham (wonderful illustrations and icons)
Gold Chains - I Come From San Francisco (can't stop playing this music video)
Si Group (interesting perspective transform on the flash video)
Gay-o-meter (I'm at 33%)
Were-Here (indispensable Flash forum is finally back)
Bruce Springsteen rescues DoubleTake magazine
Cirque du Soleil (nice depth, color, typography)
Scope Chain and Memory Waste in Flash MX
Turner Classic Movies - Essentials 2003
Move Your Feet by Junior Senior
Robbie Williams (interesting jumbotron grid lines)
Neutraface Architectural Lettering (The perfect accessory for my new 1920s home)
House Industries Purchases Photo-Lettering
Luke Piestalker (must watch)
Will the Real Saddam Please Stand Up?
April 2003
No Respect for the Iraqi Information Minister
A Contrast in Urban Design (San Antonio sounds a lot like parts of Atlanta)
Broadband Continues Record Growth
Are the White Stripes a Blues Band or a Sham?
Dress Up Your Cat (hilarious hats)
Miguel Hernandez Bitmap Fonts at Atomic Media
Beck Has a Weblog (but not a shift key)
iPlug (not workplace safe)
How Male or Female is Your Brain?
Petition to Macromedia: Build a Better Preloading API
Commute to Nowhere (a healthy reality check)
Eluding the Web's Snare (42% of American adults are not connected to the web)
A Mighty Wind (dying to see this new Christopher Guest mockumentary. Official site.)
How to Hide CSS from Buggy Browsers
PodPop (new Flash rich internet application environment)
PuppetStrings (free Flash MX component to create text on a path)
How to Watch the Masters Like a Pro
PSD2FLA (converts a layered Photoshop file to a layered Flash MX file)
We Love the Iraqi Information Minister
For Muster Mark (Dean Allen runs down the sad, tortured history of PageMaker and QuarkXPress. Former print designers nod heads in unison everywhere.)
Hong Kong tourism officials regret ad campaign (oh, the irony)
Networks' theme music sanitizes war's darkest reality
How Jessica Lynch Was Found (an amazing story)
A Beginner's Guide to VHS - DVD Transferring (something I'll be doing soon with a box full of VHS tapes)
March 2003
Enigmo (very unique idea for a puzzle game)
Time Traveler Busted for Insider Trading (no, this isn't a movie)
What's Owen Wilson Doing in Iraq?
Macromedia Central coming this summer. (Looks like a cross between Watson and Konfabulator)
UPS Destroys Their Identity (tacky, trendy design replaces Paul Rand's timeless work)
Cannot Find Weapons of Mass Destruction
National Guardsman Legally Changes Name to Optimus Prime
Anti-Anti-Aliasing (Or, Way More Than You Ever Wanted to Hear About Anti-Aliasing in Mac OS X Web Browsers)
Where is Raed? (the weblog of a young Iraqi in Baghdad)
Al Gore Loves OS X, Joins Apple Board
See men shredded, then say you don't back war (very disturbing - not enjoying one bit)
The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business
Revamped Macromedia Site Irks Customers
Konfabulator: The Beginning Widget Writer's Guide
February 2003
MacEdition Guide to CSS2 Support in PDAs and Handheld Browsers
Grammy Awards Ignore Rhode Island Tragedy ("Apparently neither Great White, nor The Station, nor its 97 dead customers, has anything to do with the music industry.")
Javascript in Mac Browsers (Apple KB Dev Article)
Iraq, Kentucky Vie for World Shooting-In-The-Air Supremacy
Killing Goliath: Life During Wartime
On demand CD-Rs from Smithsonian archive flourish
Disarming Iraq (NY Times Editorial)
Vagabonding - one guy travelling around the world with a video camera, a laptop, and a MovableType weblog to share.
Salon.com may close before March
Frenchie Davis kicked off American Idol
Microsoft Palladium [oh, joy]
How to extract video from TiVo with Mac OS X
Why Doesn't MSN Work in Opera? [Opera claims Microsoft may be purposely serving poorly coded CSS to their browser - a 'CSS Bomb' of sorts]
The Varieties of Media Bias [part I of an ongoing Slate.com series]
Using and Managing Fonts in OS X - A Guide for Creative Professionals
Jeremy Allaire says goodbye to Macromedia
SXSW Website Competition Finalists
Japanese scientest invents invisible cloak
Nexus London [features opening titles of Catch Me If You Can and other videos]
PowerBook G4 cooked at 400 degrees for 20 minutes by some sick fool. Still boots, though lightly toasted and warped.
Sims Online is a bore (LA Times - Reg Req)
Gui Galaxy has returned
January 2003
HTML's Time is Over. Let's Move On. by David Heller
What OS are you? [I'm Amiga, whatever that means]
Mac, Windows War Ends in Truce
State of the Union Address Transcript
Price comparison of new Apple LCDs to other brands
A software developer explains the ins and outs of software serialization and user privacy.
Why We Know Iraq is Lying by Condoleezza Rice
Music for 18 Musicians Live - a free mp3 from Steve Reich recorded at the world premiere of the work on April 24, 1976 in NYC.
An oldtimer's guide to understanding women (love the photo)
America Under Siege by David Horowitz
daidala: the three canonical responses
Vintage Luggage Labels - The Lost Art of Travel and The History of the Luggage Label
European Copyrights Expiring on Recordings From 1950's (note the inappropriate usage of an apostrophe - also read a timely, related critique by Arianna Huffington)
December 2002
How to Ruin American Enterprise by Ben Stein
MacWizards Music -- RIAA Statistics Don't Add Up to Piracy
The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2002
Google Press Center: 2002 Year-End Zeitgeist
Spinsanity - Countering rhetoric with reason
November 2002
Chrimbobats: Free Christmas dingbat font
iPods Around the World Photo Gallery
Real X-rated movies based on popular movie titles
March 2002
Inspirational Sport Statues (I'm buying one)
February 2002
January 2002
November 2001
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