When debating projects to do around the house it’s easy to find many home improvement projects. But when you don’t own the home, but rather rent. It’s much easier to find projects to create. I’ve been working on an Arcade (MAME) Cabinet for a while as one such project. In doing the [...]
Continue reading about Computer Aided Design for Woodworking get’s cheaper and easier to get
Prototype.js != $(). I’ve been thinking about other JS libraries lately, like Moo, jQuery, and Dojo. (jQuery and Dojo both use WordPress for their blogs.) We need to make a final final decision about what JS framework we’re going to stick to for a year or more before we release WP 2.1.
[Photo Matt]
I had already [...]
Continue reading about Another Critical Look at Prototype JS
Design magazine Before & After shows you how to turn letters into a logo using a variety of techniques.
These include creating a mid-letter crossbar, removing part of a letter’s stroke, interlocking letters and more. The examples are all colorfully illustrated within the tutorial, which also includes the fonts and colors in case you want to [...]
When designing a website one should always make sure that you make sense. And it doesn’t help to have ambiguous graphics highlighting the points. Well The US Government as always failed that rule.
The US government has a new website, www.ready.gov, displaying public service symbols for terrorism readiness, in the tradition of the old [...]
We printed some business cards yesterday. And I had to share. I’m guessing these where either a Christmas Present to someone, or someone decided to make himself some business cards to pass out.
I generally design fancy cards, cards that stand out on their looks, that capture the eye. But in this case [...]
Continue reading about The Business Card for the Jack of all Trades
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and [...]
Continue reading about Helvetica - A movie about a font that has taken over the world
We’ve seen plenty of examples over the years of what MS Paint is capable of, but watching this drawing of a car created “live” may give you more respect for just how much work it really is.
This isn’t the best example of what is done in paint. I’ve seen some really amazing graphics. [...]
Continue reading about You’ve seen the amazing Paint artwork… but have you seen what it takes?
[Matt Cutts]
If you’ve never read my blog before, welcome. I’m the head of the webspam team at Google. And I have a blog for days just like this.
Okay, first off you should go read this post. It’s entitled “Me Against Google” and the author is unhappy that talkorigins.org was nowhere to be found in Google [...]
Snap Preview Anywhere™ displays a preview of ANY site that is hyperlinked from your page. So your readers can decide whether a site is worth visiting before actually clicking the link.
I went ahead and added this, because I saw it used on Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress’ blog. And what it does is add a [...]
Continue reading about Snap! I added a preview feature to all hyperlinks on site.
Intel offers $1m for a Viiv-based Mac Mini killer
Intel will pay whoever designs what it reckons is the world’s coolest living room computer $1m. Apple’s Mac Mini might be a candidate, but despite the appearance of VP Phil Schiller during CEO Paul Otellini’s Intel Developer Forum - a first for the Mac maker - the [...]
Continue reading about Intel offers $1m for a Mac Mini killer
