Dave Kellam

Cameron Moll is soliciting comments to form the bulk of an upcoming article based on the idea that good designers decorate, while great designers communicate. His eight things I wish I’d known when I started are required reading. I’m still moving out of the decoration phase, but I’d say less is more and whitespace is your friend are good rules to live by.

Here’s the eighth 5Q interview for Seal Club (and the second in my blue and orange series), featuring Dave Shea of mezzoblue.

A couple of interesting WordPress plugins that I’ve come across in the last day or two: LightPress is a front-end for WordPress that activates as a plugin and aims to speed up database queries and make a clearer distinction between program logic and layout. Edit Comments allows you to give a short-window to allow commenters to changes to typos, etc.

Is it just me or is South Korea the wrong place for Bush to be announcing that the US will withdraw troops from Iraq, when the country is ready to fend for itself?

Battlestar Galactica has been renewed for a third season. W00t.

The Mathematical Magic of the Fibonacci Numbers. A solid introduction to one of math’s cooler patterns. If the Intelligent Design folk were smart, they’d go after the patterns in nature. Unfortunately, intelligence isn’t one of their strong suits.

What should you do when you’re counterfeiting currency and your printer jams? Buy a new one with all your cash? No, you send the printer off to be repaired.

Here’s the seventh interview for Seal Club, featuring Khaled Abou Alfa of Broken Kode. It’s the first of my “blue and orange” interviews; 10 bonus points for guessing who the next one is with.

The science behind four interesting physics demos, including: walking on broken glass, dipping your hand in molten lead, having a concrete block smashed on your chest while sandwiched between a bed of nails and picking up a white-hot space-shuttle tile.

These Scarface posters are amazing (make sure you look in close), reproducing all 300 pages of script. Alanah did a series of Alice in Wonderland drawings in a similar style, we’ll see about getting them online.