Follow @ashetler for Updates on Japan : As you may have heard by now, Japan was hit by a massive earthquake at 2:46 pm Tokyo time today, then followed by a devastating tsunami. Angela Shetler, a writer and editor living in Japan, is posting regular updates from the area. … Read the rest here
A collection of responsive web designs, curated by Eivind Uggedal. (via @luxuryluke ) … Read the rest here
There’s something not generally mentioned by those advocating a four-day workweek: tuning out the rest of the world on day five. Lots of us webbies have either promoted the idea of a four-day workweek, or have sought after it, or both. Not a 4/10 workweek , but four days of normal working time and three days of non-working time. Carsonified was one of the first to promote the idea, and recently Ryan Carson wrote once again on the topic. 37signals joined in a little later… Read the rest here
Matchboox : Books that come packaged inside a matchbox. /via @ insideoutmag … Read the rest here
There are a handful of people who follow me on Twitter who continually moan about the way I use the service. Some complain when I tweet about what I’ve eaten, who I’ve met or what I’ve done that day. Others complain when I use Gowalla or Foursquare to announce my location or post a stream of consciousness on a topic that is currently bugging me. An obvious reaction is to remind those people that nobody is forcing them to follow me and they can easily unfollow if they don’t like what I’m saying. In fact, I have done just that on several occasions. However Twitter is an unusual hybrid of public discussion and private conversation… Read the rest here
When I saw Ian Lloyd tweet the words “Cunning. Like a fox. Neat little trick!” I knew I had to check it out, because Ian’s a sharp one. So I popped over to the linked CSS-Tricks article, Show and Edit Style Element , and checked it out. Cunning indeed! And yet, it immediately bothered me. … Read the rest here
Placekitten : A simple service for using pictures of kittens as placeholders in your designs or code. See also the jQuery plugin on GitHub , which lets you dynamically change any or all images to kittens. Update: How about a bookmarklet to turn all images on any site into kittens? (thx @ paulroon ) … Read the rest here
Typography in Rome : A Flickr photoset by Paul Soulellis. Faves: 1 , 2 , and 3 . /via @ kmwaite … Read the rest here
Let’s get straight to it! I’m busy writing a book called “The Icon Handbook” to be published by Five Simple Steps , hopefully at the latter end of this year. It will be ‘application-agnostic’, looking at the process of creating icons for web as well as software. It will be a manual, reference guide and coffee table book in one. For the last 5 years I’ve been wanting to write this book – I keep looking around for other books of its type on the market, but never find any. … Read the rest here
humans.txt : A movement to give credit to the team members who worked on a site by including their details in a simple text file. (I know, I probably missed the Twitter train on this one. But I was off speaking when it made the rounds.) … Read the rest here
Steve Jobs Pitches iPad on Dragons’ Den : Had the iPad been an actual pitch to investors, it might have gone something like this. /via @ mark_forrester … Read the rest here
Glyphicons : A set of “precisely prepared monochromatic icons and symbols” by Jan Kovařík. His notes about the motivation behind the icons describe his efforts to modernize the iconic symbols created by AIGA and Apple. Seems like a good companion to the Glyphish icons. /via @ behoff … Read the rest here
Steelfish: Condensed, @font-face Compatible, and Free : This looks like a really nice condensed font. /via @ foundationsix … Read the rest here
I wrote a little while back about my feelings on hash-bang URLs: I feel so disappointed and sad when I see previously-robust URLs swapped out for the fragile #! fragment identifiers. I find it hard to articulate my sadness… Fortunately, Mike Davies is more articulate than I. He’s written a detailed account of breaking the web with hash-bangs . It would appear that hash-bang usage is on the rise, despite the fact that it was never intended as a long-term solution. … Read the rest here
Verizon iPhone: “Most Successful Launch Day in History” : It’s full of corporate fluff, as you might expect. But here’s the gist of Friday’s press release: ‘This was an exciting day,’ said Dan Mead, president and chief executive officer for Verizon Wireless. ‘In just our first two hours, we had already sold more phones than any first day launch in our history. And, when you consider these initial orders were placed between the hours of 3 a.m. and 5 a.m., it is an incredible success story. It is gratifying to know that our customers responded so enthusiastically to this exclusive offer — designed to reward them for their loyalty.’ /via @ zeldman … Read the rest here
Happy Cog Hosting: White-glove, LAMP-stack Hosting : As of a few weeks ago, Authentic Jobs and portions of this site have been running on Happy Cog Hosting. So far it’s been very reliable, and the customer service has been top-notch. The doors are now open for a limited public beta. But take note, this isn’t a replacement to your $10/month host. … Read the rest here
Typefaces of the World Poster : The second poster by Shelby White that I’ve linked up this week. Keep it up, Shelby, and I’ll keep pressing the post button as often as needed. … Read the rest here
Frank Chimero, “The Shape of Design” : The latest runaway success on Kickstarter. Currently at $42,000 and rising, and that after just 21 hours since the initial announcement . The intro video, albeit a little long, is quite creative. Frank’s book is sure to be worth backing. … Read the rest here
Two weeks ago I became the father of a beautiful baby girl. Welcome, Gracie, to the world. It is a strange and wonderful thing, this fatherhood lark. These first two weeks have been the proverbial emotional rollercoaster; not so much with ups and downs, but more of a permanent up with occasional plummeting downs as emotions and sleep deprivation kick in. This was no great surprise… Read the rest here
W3C Introduces HTML5 Logo : Wait, is it April 1? Is this for real? Apparently so. Here’s the official word from W3C and the design notes from Ocupop . … Read the rest here