Archive for August, 2004

How not to buy happiness

Posted by Trevor in General on August 30, 2004

The MIT Press, or something called Daedalus has an article called How not to buy happiness for reading. via

King Mole

Posted by Trevor in General on August 24, 2004

The Viking King Mole. Praise him with great praise.

Branding Mozilla

Posted by Trevor in General on August 11, 2004

Branding Firefox and Branding Thunderbird are both pretty interesting, if you're into that sort of thing.

Yahoo! Buzz Index

Posted by Trevor in General on August 11, 2004

There is a thing called Yahoo! Buzz Index is nice to look at. You also might want to check out Google's Zeitgeist.

Well-Designed Weblogs

Posted by Trevor in General on August 11, 2004

mono Well-Designed Weblogs and Volume 2 are pretty good.

Zeldman’s Resize Links

Posted by Trevor in General on August 11, 2004

Resize 800.
Resize 1024.

IE Sucks

Posted by Trevor in General on August 11, 2004

There is this: mezzoblue Side-stepping IE, and Quirksmode.

Mario Clouds

Posted by Trevor in General on August 11, 2004

21C Magazine has a cool article about stuff that is cool. As it goes "Recently I hacked a Mario Brothers Cartridge and erased everything but the clouds."

Seven Steps to Better Presentations

Posted by Trevor in General on August 11, 2004

This Jeffrey Veen: Seven Steps to Better Presentations article is kind of nifty. Nifty!

Tell stories.
Show pictures.
Don't apologize.
Start strong.
End strong too.
Stand.
Pause.

Floatutorial and CSS Layouts

Posted by Trevor in General on August 11, 2004

Floatutorial: Step by step CSS float tutorial not only has a good tutorial on floats, but also a nuber of other useful things. List-a-matic is cool. Oh, and while you're at it, you should look at Layout-o-Matic, which is pretty awesome. CSS is good.

A List Apart

Posted by Trevor in General on August 11, 2004

A List Apart is a must visit for those interested in web design. Please visit it.

Freedom 0

Posted by Trevor in Wordpress on August 11, 2004

dive into mark Freedom 0 says it pretty well. It’s not about money; it’s about freedom. In regard to the switch from MoveableType to Wordpress. I also swtiched because the program is better, but that is neither here nor there.

RSS : 10 Words

Posted by Trevor in General on August 11, 2004

An exercise in clarity: RSS is another good thread on Signal vs. Noise that's got people trying to define RSS. In 10 words. Yes.

Get the latest site updates without visiting the webpage.

Keep track of site updates in one convenient place.

Polling metadata feeds automatically is easier than revisiting web sites.

Onion Taken Seriously

Posted by Trevor in General on August 11, 2004

An article that is funny. Haha. Funny. Wired News: Onion Taken Seriously, Film at 11. Read this. Funny. Haha.

MyFonts (or How I Made My Logos)

Posted by Trevor in General on August 11, 2004

Go on ahead and Find, try, buy and download fonts online : MyFonts.com. That's how I got all the cool logos you see I've got rotating on this here site. First, I used the free previews they offer on MyFonts.com, and then I layed them on the same size transparent background in Photoshop. After that, I used the Image Rotator provided by Automatic Labs to have them all rotate randomly. If you want to see all of the logos, you can check out the logos directory I've got going here.