Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine
Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine : At last one can find only the most coveted of the Calvin & Hobbies comic strips: the snowmen chronicles . … Read the rest here
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Reset Revisited
It was close to four years ago now that I first floated (ha!), publicly refined , and then published at its own home what’s become known as the “Eric Meyer Reset”. At the time, I expected it would be of interest to a small portion of the standards community, provoke some thought among fellow craftspeople, and get used occasionally when it seemed handy. Instead, it’s ended up almost everywhere. (This occasionally backfires on me when people use it in the CSS of e-mail campaigns, it’s exposed by older mail clients, and people then mail me to demand that I unsubscribe them from the mailing list. But that’s not the worst backfire—I’ll get to that in just a minute.) Four years is long enough for a revisit, I’d say… Read the rest here
Boxee Box Follow-up 1
After using the Boxee Box for a few days, I had the itch to restore it to the factory version of 0.9 and see how that performed. The process was surprisingly easy, with the exception of issues connecting to my N wifi network. It didn’t like either a 2.5ghz connection, or a 5ghz, and would only connect to G. Once past that, I got to experience what the Boxee Box could’ve been. The interface looked fantastic, my local content was more important again, music and photos were back in the main menu and there were all the apps that were missing. Online videos played full screen, meaning the BBC iPlayer was usable again. … Read the rest here
Boxee Box
The Short Review The Boxee Box is a well made, beautiful piece of hardware that plays even large mkv files without complaining. However, it has a mass of regressions from the beta version: missing functionality, downgraded UI aesthetics & usability and online content is given more importance than your own files. All issues I have with Boxee Box are potentially solvable via firmware updates though! The Long Review After waiting 11 months for it be released, it was a shock when I discovered that the final Boxee Box UI had undergone so many radical changes. I cancelled my order, preferring to try the desktop software first to be sure that it still suited me as much as the beta. However, I saw some more reviews, spoke to the Boxee CEO Avner Ronen and saw his responses to the issues and felt confident again. So, the order was back on! There are many excellent reviews out there, and I will try not to cover the same ground as those, so make sure you also read: Engadget Crunchgear Matt Apps Next, let me state the conditions and criteria of this review. … Read the rest here
Typographic Maps by Axis Maps
Typographic Maps by Axis Maps : How can I not link up something designed entirely with type? Created as a labor of love, these unique maps accurately depict the streets and highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and physical features of the city using nothing but type. Maps of Chicago and Boston are available for purchase starting at $14.95. /via @ paramoreredd … Read the rest here
Final word on the Gap logo. (See also Gap, Undo.)
Final word on the Gap logo. (See also Gap, Undo .) … Read the rest here
Why we don’t have a parent selector
On a seemingly regular basis, I see this discussion come up as to whether CSS should have a particular feature like the parent selector and while I haven’t worked on a browser engine, I have my theories. In short: performance . How CSS gets evaluated With work, I’ve had to do quite a bit of examination of performance. We run a number of tools over an application to determine where the bottlenecks are. … Read the rest here
Ben Barry: Art Direction for the f8 Conference
Ben Barry: Art Direction for the f8 Conference : This is some really outstanding design work that covers multiple mediums. Love the graph aesthetics, custom glass tables, and badges that hang at an angle, also doubling as conference guides. … Read the rest here
Handpicked Job Openings
With all the buzz from last month
One
More than a decade ago, I was living in northern Mexico for a period of two years. I met and conversed with wonderful people throughout the states of Coahuila, Durango, and Zacatecas. I spoke fairly fluent Spanish at the time. And I was about as poor financially as I
Drink.
Drink. : Greg Storey: Somehow, our subset of the industry cares. Whether it
Webfonts.info
Webfonts.info : A handy resource containing @font-face information regarding browser support , fonts available for embedding , foundries that allow embedding , and more. Thanks to Tiffany Wardle for a similar list , which in turn pointed me to Webfonts.info. … Read the rest here
Ten years of
If you’re looking for something to give you inspiration, not just visually, but on a business level too, this is the book you need to buy: It’s not often I get so excited about a book (the last one was Jon Burgermans Pens are my friends ) but “I’m all over this” as the young people like to say. Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community could’ve just been a published collection of illustrations from Threadless shirts, and still would’ve been a must-buy. The variety and quality of Threadless designs are stunning, and I’ve always touted them as an inspiration source in talks like “How to be a Creative Sponge”. It goes much further than that though. … Read the rest here
Bye-Bye,
Bye-Bye,
Google Instant with Bob Dylan
Google Instant with Bob Dylan : Though I
Vimeo Releases Embeddable HTML5 Video Player
Vimeo Releases Embeddable HTML5 Video Player : Adrianne Jeffries, writing for ReadWriteWeb: Vimeo is releasing a
The Magic Trackpad
When Apple
UI Design Palettes for Illustrator
UI Design Palettes for Illustrator : If you prototype in Illustrator, consider downloading this framework. Includes GUI elements, interface icons, and buttons styles, all of which can be dropped into your artwork and customized as needed. /via Zeldman … Read the rest here
How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made
How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made : Just yesterday I contemplated authoring something on what I think is the most fascinating advertising campaign in recent memory. I
The Unfathomable Octophant
The Unfathomable Octophant : The latest hand-printed screenprint from Phineas X. Jones. We have this one framed in our dining room. Love the style, detail and craftsmanship. … Read the rest here