Last Sunday I completed the inaugural Brighton marathon . It was also my first. It was a glorious day – the warmest of the year so far – but still a very comfortable running temperature, without a breath of wind. It belied the 4 months of training through the coldest, snowiest winter in a generation. Regularly running 8 miles in the dark, wind and sleet was not a pleasant experience. But it was all worth it… Read the rest here
The results (and selections from myself based on a purely ambiguous, subjective awesomeness rating) are in. Here are the eight nine winners. Martian Poster Winners The following individuals have won a signed copy of the Colosseo, Exclusive
Opera Mini vs. Mobile Safari, a Flickr Photoset : Screenshots I took this morning comparing Opera Mini for iPhone and Safari on iPhone, using Opera.com, NYTimes.com, Apple.com, and CameronMoll.com. First impressions after a few minutes of testing: Opera Mini is definitely snappy on iPhone. NYTimes.com loads quite fast compared to Safari. However, most text on non-mobilized sites is illegible without tapping to zoom in. This almost negates any speed gains vs. … Read the rest here
The first and second Colosseo contests offer you the chance to win an iPad. This third contest gives you a shot at winning an exclusive
Flickr Letterpress Type Group : I
The Periodic Table of Periodic Tables : I suppose we were due for this idea at some point. /via HOW Blog … Read the rest here
Limited Edition, Signed : Repeating here some of what I posted to Flickr: This turned out to be one of the most enjoyable parts of this project
Business Cards Made From Discarded Letterpress Posters : In addition to hauling tees around at SXSW, I
I’ve had a penchant for filmmaking ever since I was a little kid. I’ve never had the right equipment, though. I’m trying to finally change that, while still trying to stay within budget. The photo above shows the setup I’ve been piecing together over the last few weeks. I haven’t shot anything with it yet, but I’ll give it a good run in a couple weeks when I film the Colosseo letterpress poster being printed… Read the rest here
I’ve had a penchant for filmmaking ever since I was a little kid. I’ve never had the right equipment, though. I’m trying to finally change that, while still trying to stay within budget. The photo above shows the setup I’ve been piecing together over the last few weeks. I haven’t shot anything with it yet, but I’ll give it a good run in a couple weeks when I film the Colosseo letterpress poster being printed. … Read the rest here
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mule Design’s newest t-shirt, the El Vetica , which boasts “… celebrating the career of Mexico
