Know Your Type: Starting points for typographic inspiration. A quick typography read with some dirty samples.
The War on Iambic Pentameter
In the increasingly esoteric global struggle against the enemies of freedom, the insurgents have struck back, releasing a poetry tape by Bin Laden’s deputy. Rumour has it that Cheney’s holed up in an underground bunker somewhere, working on a coffeetable book called The History of Bacon and a sequel to Sisters.
Web Infinity Point Oh Plus One
Now that Zeldman’s on board we can get past this icky Web 2.0 nonsense and move on to the next version.
As for me, I’m cutting out the middleman and jumping right to Web 3.0. Why wait?
Sounds good to me, but we should really stop dicking around. Unfortunately, Web Infinity sounds like a bad car name, so in true playground fashion we’ll go with Web Infinity Point Oh Plus One. We can even shorten it to Web iPopo for marketing and a nice conference namey feel.
Exploring the past
A duplicate of a Chinese map from 1418 calls into question the European discovery of America. There are authenticity issues because the map is actually a reproduction from the 1700’s. Much of the recorded history surrounding Zheng He’s voyages has been destroyed over the years by other Chinese dynasties, so we’ll probably never know all the details — there was a recent National Geographic feature about his voyages. Regardless of the map’s authenticity, if the Chinese were capable of exploring Africa, and Austrailia, I don’t doubt that they were able to reach the Americas.
Fork beta 1
What’s black and white and red all over? You guessed it, Fork for K2. And what is a K2 you ask? Other than the oft-neglected peak situated beside Everest? If you’re familiar with WordPress, K2 is the successor to Kubrick, the popular default theme. It aims to be a bit more than a standard theme, with out of the box support for a number of plugins and a slew of built-in options. You can download the latest K2 beta via Binary Bonsai.
Lots of people are running K2, it’s a decent option if you don’t want to get into the php/css guts of a WordPress theme. That said, the stock look might be getting you down. That’s where Fork comes in. You should be able to drop it into a default K2 install, enable it via the options panel and have a dirty greyscale theme without any real work. It should also offer a little bit of insight into the theme’s visual customization.
Say hello to my little friend
This is Domino, our new cat. She’s seen here showing an affinity for boxes — emerging from a hiding place she’d been keen to get out of hours earlier. This is probably the first of many inevitable cat photos.
Audio player for WordPress
The audio player plugin for WordPress looks pretty sweet, minimal but it’s got everything you need. Might be nice for running an mp3 blog.
More lock picking tips
If you’re looking for some light afternoon reading, check out the document formerly known as MIT’s guide to lockpicking. After that, here’s a set of instructions for creating a cheap vibrating lock pick. And no, I’m not planning something.
Fuggy Fuggy
He who struggles, and endures, will be a ninja. Fuggy Fuggy.
In da Club
Here we go with another visual roundup of the latest and greatest 5Q interviews from Seal Club. Five more sets of questions, featuring a good whack of talent that we abuse by probing the most mundane aspects of their existence. Go read them now (and check out the first five interviews if you missed ’em).
Thanks to: Paul B. Drohan, Khaled Abou Alfa, Dave Shea, Greg Storey and Matthew Good, for helping us out this time around. Hopefully, we’ll have more Seal Club action coming at you soon. It’s been slow over the last month or so.
flickrRSS extension for TYPO3
Ingo Renner has created a flickr extension for TYPO3 based on my flickrRSS plugin for WordPress, go open-source. You can grab the extension from the typo repository.
Web Developer extension for Firefox
The 1.0 release of the web developer extension for Firefox is out. If you’re remotely interested in CSS design, this is a must have (it’s probably one of my most used apps).