Dave Kellam

Three celestial bodies can leave shadows on Earth: the Sun, the Moon and Venus. The Venus shadows are elusive and hard to capture on film. You need a clear night, just after sunset with no moon and the planet in the sky. Sounds kind of like chasing a white rabbit.

Did you know there was a thirteenth Fawlty Towers episode? Well now you do.

The Firewheel Design crew has managed to turn icon swapping into the new Pogs. And I’m that dorky kid in the corner who ended up with Oslo Finance. Go check out Icon Buffet to get your free set. Any deliveries are welcome.

This month’s copy of Treehouse Magazine is here, featuring an interview between Dan Cederholm and Jon Hicks. This bit from the Dan made me smile, “Having no formal design training, I often think that anything I pull off that comes out halfway decent is the result of a happy accident. I’m learning how to make those happy accidents more frequent.” Let’s hear it for happy accidents.

Pure gold: Let’s teach our students to become better designers by asking better questions not of us, but of themselves. Although, I think it applies to all aspects of education, not just design.

Firefox 1.5 is available for download now. I advise upgrading, so you can experience eightface in all it’s glory. For some reason the nav bar on the site wasn’t working properly in earlier versions.

I believe that Hell has in fact frozen over; there is a new version of Fontographer available. Man, I was using the last version to make fonts seven or eight years ago (you can still download them). That said, the pricing model seems pretty dumb — considering FontLab is probably more powerful and costs less.

Instructions for making an air-powered paper rocket.

If you’re one of those people that buys CDs and DVDs in spindle form, finding cases for people can be tough. I’ve wrapped them in paper before, but it usually looks pretty lame. Here are a variety of techniques for creating a paper cd case. If you’re in the market for real cases, make sure you check out Jewelboxing.

What a difference 30 years will make. A side-by-side comparison of the 1963 and 1991 versions of Richard Scarry’s The Best Word Book Ever. I borrowed these books so many times from the library when I was a kid. They had to have been the earlier versions, judging from the amount of tape on them.