Distractions

A selection of links that I've found interesting.

ReCSS – October 8, 2009

A very useful bookmarklet to reload your CSS. (via)

Objectified – February 19, 2009

Tickets are on sale now for the Objectified screening in NYC on April 9th.

WhatTheFont iPhone App – February 12, 2009

WhatTheFont for your iPhone. (via)

The History of Comic Sans – February 5, 2009

Vincent Connare talks about creating Comic Sans.

Some Random Dude – January 12, 2009

My buddy, P.J. Onori, re-launched his personal site today. Pretty impressive, check it out: http://somerandomdude.com/

Structural Tags in HTML5 – January 12, 2009

Excellent intro to HTML by Steve Smith.

AlphaImageLoader filter flaws – October 7, 2008

This just saved the day for me.

10 Years of ALA – October 7, 2008

Your favorite online magazine, now in it's 10th year.

Copy Paste Character – September 18, 2008

This will come in handy in Fireworks, which doesn't have a character palate. (via)

Test Your Color IQ – September 10, 2008

I scored a 0 (perfect color vision) thanks in part to my brand new iMac, I have no doubt. (via)

A List Apart Survey, 2008 – July 29, 2008

Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks – May 5, 2008

Luke Wroblewski's book on web form design is now available.

History of the ampersand – April 16, 2008

(via)

IE8 Will Use Standards Mode By Default – March 4, 2008

Well, that was a great way to start the day...

Chocolate Type – December 12, 2007

If I could stand chocolate, I'd totally want this. (via)

Mobil Web Design – August 28, 2007

Mobil Web Design, the PDF book by Cameron Moll, is now available for purchase.

Dust-Me Selectors – August 3, 2007

This will work great for some projects at work.

The iPhone Challenge: Keep It Quite – June 29, 2007

Hilarious! (via)

Advice for presentations: It happens! – June 20, 2007

A good read if you'll be presenting at any conferences.

Enable the debug menu on Safari for Windows – June 20, 2007

A must for any developer. (via)

Safari 3 Public Beta – June 13, 2007

Now available on Windows!

Drive-by shooting – June 7, 2007

This happened outside of the SF office for the company I contract for. It's a good read, if you disregard the closing comment about gun control. (via)

The Real Story of JPG Magazine – May 15, 2007

What do you suppose happens to the magazine now?

sIFR 3 beta – December 21, 2006

It'll be fun to try this out next time I use sIFR.

Firefox 2 – October 25, 2006

Firefox 2 is now available for download.

IE 7 Released – October 19, 2006

And so it is...

Google acquires YouTube – October 10, 2006

For $1.65 billion...

Accentuate Clothing – September 6, 2006

Can't have too many designer tees. (via)

Cusomize your Converse – July 20, 2006

One for the GF...

Digg v.3 – June 26, 2006

Digg gets an update.

Top 10 Custom JS Functions – June 12, 2006

Dustin Diaz puts together a list of useful JavaScript functions. (via)

Bowman Goes to Google – May 30, 2006

Doug Bowman puts his work at Stopdesign on hold and goes to work for Google.

SuperflousBanter - Orangina Edition – May 10, 2006

Dan Rubin redesigns

Boot It. – May 1, 2006

Croftie nails his redesign. That's hott!

DesignEducation.ca – April 10, 2006

Huge list of design resources. (via)

Worn Look Tutorial – April 4, 2006

I like this idea better for print work, where the final product would actually be worn.

SuperfluousBanter redesigned – April 4, 2006

Dan redesigns and moves to WordPress.

SpellBound for Firefox 1.5.0.1 – March 29, 2006

Finally, SpellBound for Firefox 1.5.0.1

Design Melt Down – March 23, 2006

Nice design resource. (via)

SXSW to MPAA: STFU – March 17, 2006

Wish I would have gone to that panel, now...

Getting Real – March 16, 2006

Matt Linderman just sent me a complimentary copy. Need to find somewhere to get it printed, though, so I don't have to read it all on my computer.

Vertically Centering a Div – March 16, 2006

My responce to this. Very basic, but unfortunatly the other one is the one on Digg.

2006 SXSW Interactive Photos – March 14, 2006

Check out all photos on Flickr tagged with sxswi06.

Dave Werner's Portfolio – March 8, 2006

What a great flash site.

What if Microsoft Designed iPod Packaging – March 1, 2006

Probably true...

Veerle Redesigns – March 1, 2006

Absolutely stunning piece of work!

Yahoo! UI Library – February 16, 2006

Wow. All sorts of JavaScript goodies. (via)

Fireworks Development Continues – February 16, 2006

Seems we can breath a sigh of relief - Adobe doesn't seem to be killing Fireworks yet, anyway.

Google acquires Measure Map – February 15, 2006

...and Jeff Veen goes to work for Google. (via)

Sanscons – February 9, 2006

A set of bitmap icons that you can change their shape and color dynamically.

IE 7 Beta 2 Preview – February 2, 2006

Read Robert Nyman's thoughts here.

Five Simple Steps to Typesetting on the Web – January 26, 2006

Mark Boulton starts another of his "Five Simple Steps" series. Don't miss it!

Web Developer 1.0 – January 5, 2006

Get it while it's hot.

Divless layout – December 23, 2005

Interesting layout technique, using lists as opposed to divs.

Blog Interface Design 2.0 – December 21, 2005

Some excellent points here.

Thinking Outside the Grid – December 21, 2005

Where my site makes a cameo...

Branding your wedding – December 14, 2005

Old news now, but meant to bookmark it before.

Blingo – December 2, 2005

Search and win! Powered by Google, so you'll get good search results, too.

IconBuffet Redesigns – December 1, 2005

Beautiful work from Josh Williams and crew.

Firefox 1.5 – November 30, 2005

Firefox 1.5 is now available, along with a redesign of mozilla.com.

Google Analytics – November 14, 2005

It's Urchin, but for free!

Oil Company Executives Defend Profits – November 9, 2005

"ExxonMobil, the worlds' largest privately owned oil company, earned nearly $10 billion in the third quarter." I figured the oil companies would be exploiting Katrina for all she's worth...

RoundCube Webmail – October 27, 2005

...just so I don't forget to give it a look when I get the time. (via)

Google Web Accelerator 2.0 – October 24, 2005

"It was evil enough the first time around, but this time it's downright scary."
"Sure, everyone in the world had to change their web applications to fit Google's vision of a perfect world, but at least they could. Not so for version 2.0 of this virus."

Flock – October 21, 2005

The Flock developer preview is available. I've played with it ever-so-briefly, and initial impression was good.

digg – October 20, 2005

If you haven't checked out digg yet, I'd recommend it. Been lovin' it.

CSS Beauty Redesigns – October 20, 2005

Not bad, though I would like a bit more emphasis on the showcased designs and less on the news and announcements.

Advertising on wordpress.org – October 13, 2005

I've was extremely shocked to see these prices, as well. How on earth are they worked out?!

Creating Video for iPod – October 12, 2005

Well now, this looks to be exactly what I want. Only way it could get better is if iTunes starts selling full length movies themselves.

Video iPod – October 12, 2005

This is what I was expecting. Since it holds 150 hours of video, if they make full-length movies available for download, I'm buying one.

SXSW Planning – October 7, 2005

I'm hoping to make it this year. I can't keep missing it!

Design Shack – October 7, 2005

I've been listed on Design Shack...

Screenspire – October 4, 2005

Version 2 listed on Screenspire.

Treehouse – October 4, 2005

PDF magazine by Particletree now available.

CSS Import – October 4, 2005

Version 2 listed on CSS Import.

gap.com – October 3, 2005

Gap redesigns with CSS. Doesn't quite validate, but still...

Blue Flavor – September 27, 2005

Love, love, love the logo!

Slashdot Rebuilt with CSS – September 22, 2005

About darned time. Now if they could just fix the design so my eyes don't bleed when I visit...

ISO50 – September 16, 2005

Just bought a bunch of the posters and tshirts. (via)

Email Injection – September 14, 2005

...to read later, as my contact form has been getting hammered.

Flash Player 8 – September 13, 2005

Now available.

Macromedia Studio 8 – September 13, 2005

Now shipping.

Mint Available – September 6, 2005

Get your mint on!

Hurricane Katrina on Wikipedia – September 1, 2005

Best consolodated source I've found for info on Katrina.

Opera 10-Year Aniversary Party – August 31, 2005

Celebrate by grabbing a free registration code.

The Powerbook Prank – August 30, 2005

In which a scammer gets seriously scammed.

A List Apart 4.0 – August 23, 2005

I'm digging the new design...

Infinity Inspired Color Scheme – August 9, 2005

Return of Design features a color palette inspired by Infinity Web Design.

Blinksale Launches – July 26, 2005

CSS formated invoices.

Windows Vista (Longhorn) – July 22, 2005

Microsoft announces the official name of the next version of Windwos. Now all that's left to wonder is if it'll ever be ready...?

Dominey Design – July 7, 2005

Todd Dominey redesigns his business site.

Crosswalk Button Hack – July 1, 2005

I'm so going to try this!

Post-It Art – June 30, 2005

I've been wanting to create art out of post-it notes for some time now. I just need to find the perfect wall, and a heck of a lot of free time!

Firewhite – June 25, 2005

Beautiful looking site.

Developing Dashboard Widgets – June 23, 2005

Looks fairly easy, may have to try whipping one up sometime.

Blinksale – June 21, 2005

CSS-formatted invoices...

Desert Island Fonts - Round 2 – June 20, 2005

Andrei Herasimchuk, Russ Weakly and Mark Boulton's favorite fonts.

Desert Island Fonts - Round 1 – June 20, 2005

Jon Hicks, Josh Williams and Greg Storey's favorite fonts.

300 free fonts – June 14, 2005

Should they be distributed for free, though?

Inman redesigns – June 13, 2005

And what a beauty it is...

Screen Grab Confab, vol. IV – June 10, 2005

This has got to be the best series I've ever seen on a blog. Fun.

Malarkey redesigns – May 11, 2005

Nice one, mate.

Google web accelerator alert – May 6, 2005

Oy!

Funniest thing I've seen today – May 5, 2005

Funny indeed.

The Fade Anything Technique – May 5, 2005

Inspired by 37signals Yellow Fade Technique. Looks pretty nice.

sIFR 2.0 is here – April 28, 2005

You know you want it.

Huhcorp – April 27, 2005

"Our marketing and consultant clients are numerous and prestigious. Far too numerous and prestigious to name, in fact." (via)

Einstein the Parrot – April 26, 2005

Pretty incredible. Was interesting to note the keywords she used to make the parrot speak.

Adobe to acquire Macromedia – April 19, 2005

Wow. Just wow.

Negative Margins in French – April 5, 2005

Looks like someone has translated my Negative Margins article into French.

Rob Weychert – April 1, 2005

Nice.

Joshuaink – April 1, 2005

Spring can't come soon enough after seeing this beauty.

Wordpress woes – April 1, 2005

Wow, I would have never expected this...

Transparent Screens – March 28, 2005

Might have to try this one out some day...

The Penalty of Undercharging – February 10, 2005

...and all the web designers said "amen".

Blissfully Aware – February 1, 2005

Nice looking CSS site by Joshua Lane.

Cameron Moll Interview – February 1, 2005

About time someone interviewed him.

Setting Business Goals – January 26, 2005

Been meaning to do this for myself for a while now... I'm sure it's a good idea.

Shaun's new policy – January 14, 2005

Now would be a good time to stop stealing his designs, please.

2005 Bloggies – January 2, 2005

Time to vote for you favorite blogs.

BlogAid – December 31, 2004

Pledge your blog earnings to support the earthquake and tsunami victims.

Firefox Ad – December 17, 2004

Very cool what they were able to do with thousands of names... I love it.

Andy Clarke's Zen Garden submission – December 16, 2004

Niiice...

Google Suggest – December 14, 2004

Kinda cool. A coworker showed it to me the other day...

Getting the client's budget – December 13, 2004

I'm going to have to try this one out, I think...

Cartoon character's skeletal systems – December 8, 2004

Ever wonder what Charlie Brown's skeletal system would look like?

Simplebits Makeover – December 8, 2004

You can now toggle between fixed and fluid width. Very cool!

Winter Mezzoblue – December 2, 2004

Mezzoblue gets a winter theme.

Stuff and Nonsense – November 27, 2004

Andy Clarke redesigns his business site. Very nicely, too.

Screen Grab Confab II – November 22, 2004

Contains a preview of some brand-spankin' new work by your's truly.

What app do you use for comps? – November 18, 2004

Fireworks, here.

Zeldman Interview – November 14, 2004

...over at iStockphoto.

Worn Photoshop Brushes – November 10, 2004

Cameron points us to some beauties.

Stylegala v.02 – November 9, 2004

Starting to look more like a design portal, whether good or bad...

Firefox 1.0 is here – November 9, 2004

Now go get it!

Return of Design – November 4, 2004

Yes, please.

Remarkable – November 1, 2004

If you don't vote, you have no right to complain.

So Much for the Google Browser – October 26, 2004

"'We are not building a browser,' Mr Schmidt said." Crud.

Building a Blog in Dreamweaver with PHP and MySQL – October 21, 2004

Wouldn't it be so much nicer just to use TypeSpace?

Jon Hick's Redesigns – October 16, 2004

Unique design, with... can it be... a left sidebar?!

Save Dunstan – October 16, 2004

What kind of country do we live in when they'd contemplate sending him back to England?

DreamHost hosting for $0.77 per month! – October 13, 2004

DreamHost celebrates their 7th birthday by giving away 777 hosting accounts for $0.77 per month!

Design In-Flight – October 8, 2004

Looks like this issue has some great content. I just subscribed...

Dan Rubin Redesigns – October 7, 2004

Dan Rubin redesigns Superfluous Banter. Well done!

Free Blog Design – October 4, 2004

Keith is giving away a blog design. Looking good, too.

Time for a paint-job – October 4, 2004

Andy Clarke (aka. Malarkey) gives his site a nice new coat of paint.

The Zen of CSS Design – October 4, 2004

I'll definitely be buying this one!

Design Books – September 30, 2004

I might have to pick up a few of them.

Kottke's Voters Information Guide – September 30, 2004

The print version is by your's truly.

zipdecode – September 17, 2004

Simply amazing. (via)

"design blogs" – September 17, 2004

Cool while it lasts...

Spread Firefox – September 16, 2004

Shooting for 1,000,000 downloads in 10 days, and it's looking good.

Jeff Smith Design – September 15, 2004

A nice CSS site that I've not seen in any of the galleries...yet.

Letterhead Fonts – September 13, 2004

Awesome fonts, with awesome examples of each in use. (via)

sIFR 2.0b – September 13, 2004

Flash replacement is getting better, thanks to Mike Davidson's hard work.

Graphical Checkboxes – September 12, 2004

A nice little write-up on aesthetically enhancing your checkboxes.

Ryan Sims Interviewed – September 3, 2004

SkinnyJ interviews one of my favorite designers.

BBEdit 8.0 Icon – September 3, 2004

Wonder how long it'll be before more people are using Hick's version than the default?

sIFR – September 3, 2004

I've been wanting to try out IFR for a while, and Mike Davidson's version is really looking good.

mozilla.org redesigns – September 3, 2004

A couple days old, I know... Lookin' good, though.

East vs. West Coast – August 31, 2004

An entertaining, DxF style showdown.

Microsoft Advances – August 26, 2004

Doug Bowman on the new microsoft.com.

Screen Grab Confab – August 25, 2004

Awesome idea from Cameron Moll, where people post a 320x320 screenshot of what they are currently working on.

Site Specific Stylesheets – August 25, 2004

Simon is right, the sooner it makes it's way into Firefox the better.

Anatomy of an Icon – August 24, 2004

Dan explains his process.

Hivelogic Redesigned – August 23, 2004

Very nice.

Online. Worry-free. – August 23, 2004

Explains why Internet Explorer is unsafe.

Redesign Scobleizer – August 20, 2004

Might be fun.

Airbag Iced Latte Fund – August 18, 2004

I sent him a fiver for little Amy.

mezzoblue v5 – August 16, 2004

This one's for Dave.

PGA Championship 2004 – August 10, 2004

Todd Dominey strikes again.

SpellBound – July 28, 2004

A spell checker for Firefox 0.9+. Much easier to install than spell checkers for previous versions.

"Standardista" – July 26, 2004

I love it...

Nundroo – July 19, 2004

Didier launches his beautifully designed personal blog.

Design by Fire 2.0 – July 17, 2004

Andrei redesigns as well, and it's lookin' good!

Dunstan redesigns – July 17, 2004

Dunstan redesigns (sort of a pseudo redesign) his blog...

PHP 5.0.0 – July 15, 2004

It's finally here!

Bulletproof Slants – July 14, 2004

It's always nice to see bulletproof CSS techniques.

IE5/Mac Band Pass Filter – July 7, 2004

A hack to filter IE5/Mac from Doug and Tantek.

Glen! Glen! Glen! – July 2, 2004

I knew there was a reason I loved Starbucks. (via)

Kottke's policy – July 2, 2004

"We have a policy that we're not being hacked."

Desktop wallpaper – July 2, 2004

I set this up as my wallpaper the other day. And I'm loving it.

Kottke redesign – June 28, 2004

Still has that same minimalist feel. I like it.

Production for use – June 20, 2004

A great article about well balanced web design.

That Wicked Worn Look: Expert Guest Gala – June 16, 2004

Part four of Cameron Moll's four part article describing how to achieve "that wicked worn look".

Great Book Giveaway Contest – June 16, 2004

Wow. All the links you could ever want.

SimpleBits Pseudoredesign – June 15, 2004

Yep, even Dan's getting into the redesign action...

The real reason you should care about web standards – June 14, 2004

A very good read by Andrei Herasimchuk.

New address for airbag.ca – June 11, 2004

Update your bookmarks! Pass the word! airbag.ca is now airbagindustries.com!

CssBeauty – June 11, 2004

Now that the Vault's format has changed, perhaps this will become the new hot spot to check out beautiful designs.

That Wicked Worn Look: Wicked Third-party Software – June 9, 2004

Part three of Cameron Moll's four part article describing how to achieve "that wicked worn look".

WaSP survey – June 8, 2004

Let the WaSP know what you think about standards. Only takes a few minutes.

Stopdesign reloaded – June 8, 2004

The continuation of Doug's redesign. Very nice.

10 questions for Dan – June 8, 2004

Dan Cederholm is interviewed for the Web Standards Group.

The "skinny" on Shaun Inman – June 7, 2004

Justin Goodlett's inteview of Shaun Inman.

Favicons – June 7, 2004

One of these days I'll come up with something better than what I've got up there now.

Nigritude Ultramarine – June 7, 2004

A little SEO fun...

Gurus v. Bloggers, Round 2 – June 3, 2004

Andrei places the smackdown on the gurus, yet again.

That Wicked Worn Look: Using Photoshop's Native Filters – June 2, 2004

Part two of Cameron Moll's four part article describing how to achieve "that wicked worn look".

What's in a name? – June 1, 2004

Andy Clarke discusses naming conventions.

sidesh0w redesigned – May 28, 2004

Must be the month (nay, week) to redesign - Ethan Marcotte did so on sidesh0w. Me likey.

That Wicked Worn Look: The Indispensable Tool Trio – May 26, 2004

Part one of Cameron Moll's four part article describing how to achieve "that wicked worn look".

Stopdesign, too? – May 26, 2004

Douglas Bowman redesigns Stopdesign. And on the same day as Dave Shea?!

Shea redesigns – May 25, 2004

A less blue Mezzoblue.

Grey Box Methodology – May 25, 2004

Designing in grey, eh? Maybe that's something to try...

Design eye for the usability guy – May 20, 2004

The "design fab five" give Jakob Neilsen's recent Alertbox a face lift. Excellent reading.

10 questions for Andy – May 17, 2004

Andy Budd is interviewed for the Web Standards Group.

Digital Web redesigned – May 13, 2004

Digital Web Magazine has a whole new look. Very nice.

A better blogger – May 10, 2004

Google's Blogger get's a redesign courtesy of Douglas Bowman.

Bright Creative – May 10, 2004

Fantastic work by Dave Shea.

Happy Birthday – May 7, 2004

The CSS Zen Garden turns one!

IE feature requests – May 4, 2004

Robert Scoble makes an offer too good to pass up.

Zeldman redesigns – May 3, 2004

Me likey

Thunderbird 0.6 – May 3, 2004

Now featuring Jon Hicks artwork.

Be careful what you blog – April 27, 2004

For some reason, it seems they should have better things to do than read my blog. Ah well, what can I say.

10 questions for Keith – April 27, 2004

Russ Weakley interviews Keith Robinson for the Web Standars Group.

One ping to rule them all – April 21, 2004

Matt Mullenweg and Dougal Campbell provide a very useful pinging service.

A walk down memory lane – April 21, 2004

Cameron Moll asks us to post our first works - and does so himself, as well.

A9 – April 20, 2004

Amazon's entry into the search engine market.

Congrats, Sir – April 16, 2004

Jeffrey Zeldman announces that his wife and himself is expecting a baby. Congratulations.

Long Live The Designer – April 14, 2004

Didier Hilhorst's first article in a serious of columns entitled Art of Interaction.

Gurus v. Bloggers – April 13, 2004

This makes a great read...

PHP For Designers – April 2, 2004

Matt Mullenweg provides a nice, basic introduction to PHP.

Happy Cog 3.0 – March 26, 2004

Jeffrey Zeldman redesigns Happy Cog. Well done, sir.

SawStop (via Boing Boing) – March 26, 2004

Not typically the type of thing I would link to, but I found it amazingly cool.

Didier Hilhorst interview – March 23, 2004

As interviewed by SkinnyJ.

Win Photoshop CS (via mezzoblue) – March 22, 2004

I'll help pimp his site for him. Ok, ok, so I do happen think the prize rocks...

Design it, and they will steal. – March 22, 2004

It's really too bad...

Authentic Boredom – March 19, 2004

Authentic Boredom by Cameron Moll.

SXSW Web Awards – March 15, 2004

CSS Zen Garden wins two categories. Congratulations, Dave and all contributors!

You Go, Girl – March 15, 2004

Jon Hicks has got to be doing something right. ;)

CSS Problem-Solving – March 10, 2004

Problem solving skills are an essential aspect of developing a site with CSS.

IE7 – March 8, 2004

Potentially useful, interesting choice of name, though.

Oceans Apart – March 5, 2004

Beautiful new Zen Garden design.

ALA - CSS Sprites: Image Slicing's Kiss of Death – March 5, 2004

A List Apart issue 173.

ALA - Zebra Tables – March 5, 2004

A List Apart issue 173.

ALA - CSS drop shadow – February 27, 2004

A List Apart issue 172.

ALA - Custom corners and borders – February 27, 2004

A List Apart issue 172.

Doug speaks – February 26, 2004

Don't miss this short interview with Douglas Bowman over at Macromedia.

Something's fishy... – February 26, 2004

Now this is a cool design. It looks like it jumped straight out of the Zen Garden.