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Mezzoblue Go to the source

For no particular reason, I present to you a list of things that were true on August 27, 2001 : The iPod, XBox, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Ubuntu, and Blu-Ray did not exist. IBM was still in the PC business, Handspring was still around, and Blackberries were data-only devices with no telephone capabilities. The Euro had not yet entered circulation, currencies like the Franc, Mark and Lira were still legal tender. George Harrison, The Queen Mother, Gregory Peck, Barry White, Johnny Cash, Ronald Reagan, Ray Charles, Julia Child, Pope John Paul II, Johnny Carson, Steve Irwin, Gerald Ford and Michael Jackson were still alive. SARS, Avian Flu, H1N1 were not in the common vernacular. Enron and WorldCom were still in business. … Read the rest here

Mezzoblue Go to the source

For no particular reason, I present to you a list of things that were true on August 27, 2001 : The iPod, XBox, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Ubuntu, and Blu-Ray did not exist. IBM was still in the PC business, Handspring was still around, and Blackberries were data-only devices with no telephone capabilities. The Euro had not yet entered circulation, currencies like the Franc, Mark and Lira were still legal tender. George Harrison, The Queen Mother, Gregory Peck, Barry White, Johnny Cash, Ronald Reagan, Ray Charles, Julia Child, Pope John Paul II, Johnny Carson, Steve Irwin, Gerald Ford and Michael Jackson were still alive. SARS, Avian Flu, H1N1 were not in the common vernacular… Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

A friend was looking at doing a simple slideshow. The requirements were very straightforward: No animation controls. eg: play, stop. Images should cross-fade. Her instinct was to find an existing jQuery plug-in and revise it to work to her needs. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

I was always throwing stuff together as a kid, like homemade go-karts, bike ramps, forts, and other stuff that substantiated my existence as a boy. Now with boys of my own, it’s as if I’m remaking all that stuff again. Except it’s even more fun with kids. One of the projects we put together recently was a simple, cheap set of football/rugby uprights . In football (American), the uprights at either end of the playing field are similar to those used in rugby. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

After having seen Matt Brett twitter about it, I knew I wanted one. The BookArc is a laptop stand, pure and simple. It fits the Mac aesthetic very nicely with its brushed aluminum look—the site says it’s made of "heavy gauge" steel. Suffice it to say, this product is solid. It has soft silicone feet and silicone inserts so as not to scratch your desk or you MacBook… Read the rest here

Clagnut Go to the source

Poppy is 1½ today. She’s my first dog, and it’s been a wonderful, if occasionally trying experience for both Her Indoors and me. The Wikipedia article on beagles gives some agreeable insight into the ups and downs of beagle ownership. This sums up Poppy perfectly: The Beagle has an even temper and gentle disposition. Described as “merry”, they are amiable and generally neither aggressive nor timid… Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

In the course of a recent debugging session, I discovered a limitation of web inspectors (Firebug, Dragonfly, Safari’s Web Inspector, et al.) that I hadn’t quite grasped before: they don’t show pseudo-elements and they’re not so great with pseudo-classes. There’s one semi-exception to this rule, which is Internet Explorer 8’s built-in Developer Tool. It shows pseudo-elements just fine. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about: p::after {content: ” -2761-”; font-size: smaller;} Drop that style into any document that has paragraphs. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Yesterday’s heavy snowfall here in Utah seems a fitting time to announce the Moll crew is moving to Florida. Again . Except this time around, it’s long-term. We move two weeks from today, and because of that things may be relatively silent around here for a little while. There is no shortage of chaos ’round the Moll household at the moment, as you might imagine. We’re headed to Sarasota, specifically Siesta Key, about 1 hour south of Tampa Bay on the gulf side of the state… Read the rest here

SimpleBits Go to the source

Mule Design’s newest t-shirt, the El Vetica , which boasts “… celebrating the career of Mexico’s only typographer/luchador”. Purchased. Mr. Eaves , a new sans-serif companion to Mrs. Eaves from type designer Zuzana Licko. The “Q” is especially excellent… Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

A tasty Flickr set of found typography – focussing on British/London Underground/Transport styles., which of course is right up my street. Comment on this … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

This week I had the great pleasure of speaking at the 3rd Web Developer Conference in Bristol, along with Elliot Jay Stocks , Sarah Parmenter and Dan Donald . It was only a one-day conference, but I had a whale of time, meeting new folks like Elliot Kember (who shone on the 2 panels he attended), Oliver Ker and the legendary Jon Tan , with whom I’ve had emails and chat but never met in person. I also got to catch up with Ben Hostler, the creative director of Bristol-based agency Beef , who I haven’t seen since I was at Middle School with him… 24 years ago! The talk I gave was an update of one I gave at @media 2007, ‘How to be a Creative Sponge’. Back then, Flickr was really the only option for sharing design collections online, but a lot has changed since then. … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

In Squared I mentioned that I’d ordered both a Whitelines pad, and the Behance Dot Grid book to try out. After trying them both for a few days, I thought I’d just post a few words about them. First of all, the Dot Grid Book. The packaging was sublime (see my photoset on Flickr), and the book itself has a rubberised card cover, wiro-bound, with good strong stock inside. … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

In Squared I mentioned that I’d ordered both a Whitelines pad, and the Behance Dot Grid book to try out. After trying them both for a few days, I thought I’d just post a few words about them. First of all, the Dot Grid Book. The packaging was sublime (see my photoset on Flickr), and the book itself has a rubberised card cover, wiro-bound, with good strong stock inside. The rubbery cover freaked some people out that I showed it to, and has the habit of collecting fluff! There’s no show-through using black ink (maybe just the very, very slightest hint, but not enough to be a problem). The dots work quite well, and provide a lot of freedom… Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

I’ve stumbled on a couple type resources recently. I thought it’d be appropriate to lump them together under the banner of inspiring type, continuing a theme that began with Libro di M. Giovambattista Palatino . Luca Barcellona Calligraphy & Lettering Art Luca Barcellona, insofar as I can tell, is a master of calligraphy and lettering art. … Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

I’ve already described how machine tags on Huffduffer trigger a number of third-party API calls. Tagging something with music:artist=… , book:author=… , film:title=… or any number of similar machine tags will fire off calls to places like Amazon , The New York Times , or Last.fm . … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Yesterday at noon I turned in my employee badge, laptop, and other employer-owned property. Goodbyes and K.I.T.’s were exchanged. A Snickers was indulged, just because. And with that, I concluded a chapter from the last three years of my life. Today I begin full-time employment as founder, principal, whatever of Cameron Moll LLC. This is a decision that has been quietly (and carefully) considered since November 2008… Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

I fear actually saying this out loud. I certainly don’t want to jinx the progress I’ve made but, at the same time, I’m excited by the change. I’m trying to lose weight. I used to be slim. In my early twenties, I worked on my feet all day… Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

I fear actually saying this out loud. I certainly don’t want to jinx the progress I’ve made but, at the same time, I’m excited by the change. I’m trying to lose weight. I used to be slim. In my early twenties, I worked on my feet all day. I also didn’t have a car… Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

I have a confession to make: I don’t like paying full price for Apple hardware. So I buy it refurbished . Almost all of it. In fact, in the past few years I’ve purchased a 20″ iMac, 13″ black MacBook, Mac Mini, Airport, and now a 13″ MacBook Pro 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (aluminum unibody) — all refurbished. The obvious advantage to buying refurbished over paying full retail is exactly that — you typically save anywhere from 10% to 30%, and all products are covered by a one-year warranty. I’ve hardly needed the warranty… Read the rest here

Mezzoblue Go to the source

While it’s been a fairly quiet summer around these parts, that doesn’t necessarily mean I’ve been slacking off. Let’s run down the list. New Chalkwork Icons & Search Back in June while sitting around recovering from some minor surgery, I spent a weekend producing a new free icon set for payments and ecommerce called, naturally, Chalkwork Payments . It highlighted a fairly obvious deficiency in the collection, so immediately after I set to work on a much larger commerce set. Creatively named Chalkwork Commerce of course. Due to the growing size of the overall icon family (2500+ now), I decided a better way to find a specific icon was in order. … Read the rest here