2008 Jan 16, 2:53These are as bad as favicons! Boo on URI space squatting.
howto apple iphone icon favicon webdesign web ipod development via:swannman 2008 Jan 12, 3:13I was thinking this same thing.
traffic signal car pedestrian 2008 Jan 12, 3:12Info on traffic signals.
traffic signal car 2007 Dec 24, 12:41These days it seems like there's a social sharing website for everything representable as bits. Like
Scribd for (mostly legal) documents,
SciVee for scientific research videos,
Wordie for words, and
Kuler for color themes. Kuler seems
like a ridiculous website (overkill) but I had been meaning to update my homepage's color design and Kuler has an
RSS based REST API.
The API lets you obtain things like the most recently added color themes or the most popular or all themes containing the color dark red, etc... So of course rather than update my website's design I
hooked up my css to the color themes coming out of Kuler. Select my main page's color theme from a
list of random Kuler themes. As I'm sure
the regular readers can guess I use
an xslt and blah blah blah... It looks OK with
Silver Surfer and
Happy Hipo but in general
changing the colors this way doesn't produce something pretty.
When reading about Kuler I found that they may have stolen the whole idea wholeslae from
ColourLovers. They discuss
the thievery in an article on their blog. I would have switched over to ColourLovers out of principle but
they don't have an easily accessible API.
colourlovers color xslt theme homepage technical kuler design 2007 Dec 19, 11:06Article about striking similarities between COLOURlovers and Adobe's Kuler.
article blog color design web social kuler colourlovers 2007 Dec 19, 10:37Social website for sharing color schemes... Useful?
via:swannman design color webdesign web generator gallery social 2007 Dec 18, 11:18A poster with a checklist on spotting Cylons done in a 50's propaganda style.
via:boingboing bsg battlestar art design howto humor poster propaganda scifi television wishlist shopping 2007 Dec 13, 4:54Some interesting animated videos created for the Zune Ad campaign but created by actual artists.
zune art advertising animation design flash microsoft music video 2007 Nov 26, 12:32Guerrilla clockmakers fix famous Paris clock. Andrew says: "It seems a team of clockmakers broke into the Pantheon in Paris in September 2005 and spent a year fixing the historic and neglected clock,
which had been abandoned by the authorities. They were
clock culture history humor paris france via:boingboing cultural-disobediance 2007 Oct 22, 2:36How to create good headlines and subjects for webpages and email.
blog article design email howto usability tutorial language internet writing web 2007 Oct 17, 10:49Chumby is a hackable little wifi computer. Its like an expensive alarm clock that also shows you stuff off the Internet. I kind of want one.
purchase shopping wifi wireless opensource flash design hardware chumby 2007 Oct 17, 5:55Diego Doval expresses my thoughts on this topic very well and also likely well before I even had thoughts on this topic.
blog article history robustness-principle jon-postel internet tcp 2007 Oct 15, 1:31This is a howto on using encryption with web based mail clients. This article suggests a FireFox plugin. I should look into doing this in IE.
email secure webmail google gmail pgp encryption howto article 2007 Oct 12, 11:57Examples of signage that unnecessarily makes use of quotation marks to sometimes hilarious results.
via:swannman blog humor signs english language 2007 Oct 10, 9:21Howto on signing your FoaF documents.
pgp security signing web trust foaf rdf semanticweb xml encryption howto 2007 Oct 9, 4:49List of website usability issues.
usability article blog ui webdesign internet howto reference 2007 Oct 3, 12:17Humorous crocodile danger sign.
humor sign crocodile photo photos 2007 Sep 21, 3:36Reminds me of the color scheme webpage but now in stripes. Useful? Hmm...
design via:porcupine_ web webdesign generator 2007 Sep 10, 4:29Bookmarklet suggestions for the iPhone.
apple iphone bookmarklets browser hack script javascript 2007 Sep 4, 1:30Tiny showcase features very limited run art.
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