Ellen Lupton’s Thinking with Type should be on every designer’s bookshelf.
Cork’d
Cork’d is the online wine-app that I wanted to build last summer. My profile will follow shortly.
Sorry about the suck
“Hello website, my old friend… it’s been awhile.”
“I didn’t mean to ignore you.”
“Seriously, I tried to call a few times, but it never seemed right.”
“You’ve run off with a root-server?”
“There has to be something I can do.”
“A makeover?”
“Yes, but the last one was so ill-conceived.”
“One more chance? I promise it will be better this time.”
“I’m about to explode with glee.”
Wine with junk foods
What wine you should pair with that Big Mac? Bill Daley also covers some of the low-couture aspects of our favourite swill, with snack foods and brats getting equal coverage. Personally, I’m a fan of Veuve Cliquot with mozarella sticks.
Getting Real
New gun fires pink teddy-bears
The latest in non-lethal weaponry: a gun that fires pink teddy-bears.
The block is hot
Today is CSS Reboot, that means a lot of your favourite personal sites will be sporting a fresh new look. Other folks have been at it for months, I signed up on Saturday. Suffice it to say that the place is looking a little dicey right now.
I’ll avoid details about the implementation and what I’m up to for the moment. It’s mostly about having a fresh spring-look and encouraging myself to produce more. April was not a great month in terms of my online presence. My last theme was solid, but it didn’t fit my style — look for it to reappear elsewhere in the near future.
Stephen Colbert’s balls
If you haven’t watched it yet, Stephen Colbert’s address to the Whitehouse correspondant’s dinner is probably the best piece of journalism that you’ll see this year.
delicious Flickr
If you add a Flickr photo to your del.icio.us bookmarks, you’ll now receive a little thumbnail beside your link. Beyond the network stability, it’s one of those little benefits from Yahoo purchasing both sites.
It might not sit well with the old-school users that like the austere look, but I find the visual representation handy. I noticed it because I’ve been using my bookmarks to keep track of my comments around the web.
Luc Devroye censored
If you’re into typography, you’ve probably come across Luc Devroye’s font compendium at some point. Unfortunately, it was taken down by the McGill administration this week because he wrote about the school’s party reputation and the recent undergrad photographs in Playboy. His site is now hosted at Carleton, where cooler heads prevail. Regardless of school politics, taking down a professor’s site in the middle of exam season is not cool.
The Secret Lives of Animal Crossing
Beneather the Surface takes a look at what your Animal Crossing town says about you. I’m more like the crazy ninja that runs around. Haven’t played in awhile, so my town is probably full of weeds.
5Q with Zach Inglis
Seal Club hitting you hard with a fresh set of five questions for Zach Inglis.