December 2007
Paste Magazine's top 100 albums of 2007
Cool DIY idea for creating a sound proof booth on the cheap.
Y'all So Stupid #5 (NSFW)
Recent links worth looking at
November 2007
Miss the CNN/YouTube debate last night? See all the questions and answers here.
MacOSaiX is a fantastic utility for creating large mosaics of your photos using services like Flickr, Google, or even QuickTime movies. Can also save your creating as a 300dpi TIFF for printing, if you'd like.
Know someone who won't shut up? Slip them one of these cards.
August 2007
FLV is dead. Or, at least it will be a few years down the road, for today Adobe announced support for H.264 playback in the next version of Flash Player 9. Can I get a hell yeah!? Really wonderful news for Flash nerds like myself.
The Road to Clarity. New York Times covers Clearview, the typeface that will likely replace all interstate signage in the coming years.
Designer Hanna Werning's portfolio site is a lesson in simplicity and utility. Very refreshing.
July 2007
If you work on a site where "the fold" is almighty, check out FoldSpy -- a new javascript utility for calculating screen real estate.
YSlow is a handy Firefox add-on for Firebug that tests web pages for performance.
Interesting blog post about how the revised dock design in Leopard does not respect Apple's own Human Interface Guidelines.
LittleBigPlanet gameplay trailer. May be worth buying a PS3 just to play this.
Echochrome. Trippy new game coming out for PSP/PS3.
Finally, after all these years, Apple drops the ridiculous "Pro" requirement for full screen mode in the latest QuickTime 7.2 update.
5 Leopard GUI Gripes. I agree with everything on this list, especially the translucent menu bar. It's got to go.
Need a lightweight, free shopping cart script to add PayPal purchases to your web site? Check out FatFreeCart.
Frustrated by the lack of video podcast for PBS's Frontline, Kevin Burton whipped up his own feed that pulls down the latest episodes.
Apple has posted a handy web developer guide for the iPhone with lots of geeky goodness inside.
Automatically fetch and display images from Flickr as your desktop wallpaper with DeskLickr for OS X.
HBO Voyeur. Surreal use of Flash video, a la Hitchcock.
June 2007
Nice wallpaper of an old diner sign.
My friend Jason Drakeford has posted an awesome short film as part of MySpace's Stranglehold short film contest. People in the ATL may recognize some of the locations. Vote for it!
Objectpark Software makes sharing / syncing files over a LAN easy with Picnic, now in public beta.
The oh-so-handy Inspector available in nightly builds of Safari has been updated with a whole new look that feels a lot like Firebug.
Like a typeface? I mean, *really* like it? See if it's available in this collection of tshirts available from Skreened.
Wright is full of wonderful modernist furnishings and accessories. Found on Todd Oldham's company blog, which is worth reading.
Safari 3 Public Beta. And hey, it now does Windows.
On a shared hosting plan? Find out who you're neighbors are with this great tool.
Hardcore UI porn on full display in these Apple iPhone Ads. Damn, that's pretty.
How great is this? Check out the synopsis for Michel Gondry's new film. As long as it doesn't turn into a Date Movie yuck fest, it sounds fantastic.
Does the Mac really need another FTP client? Guess so. Forklift is the latest one for you to try out.
May 2007
Love the Adobe CS3 packaging? Wrap your desktop with these fancy wallpapers from the mothership.
Don't know how I missed these back in October, but these Dia de los Muertos icons are fantastic.
One to add to your Netflix queue: Lives of Others. Great German thriller Hollywood will likely copy (and screw up).
Something brewing musically in the ATL? MTV seems to think so.
It doesn't update too often, but the Google webmaster central blog is a good site to bookmark if you're into SEO.
Hidden spectrograph images in the music of Aphex Twin, Plaid and Venetian Snares.
I must have played Irakere's "Bacalao Con Pan" (which means "Codfish with bread") 20 times when I was on the radio. Salon was nice enough to post a free MP3 of it 'cause it's on a new compilation. Amazing guitar, organ, horns, and...cowbell! Play it loud.
Every client that has ever asked to "make the logo bigger" now has a theme song.
Growl Pepper is an interesting plugin for Mint that notifies you via Growl (OS X) whenever particular activities happen on your web site.
April 2007
Fancy new SlideShowPro inspired icon set at IconBuffet for all the crazy icon traders to pass around.
Christopher Hitchens channels his inner Richard Dawkins with God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Slate.com is publishing excerpts.
MTV.com redesigns...again. Someone saw the light and ditched their tiny, unintuitive, impossible Flash presence with good 'ol HTML. Previous site only lasted a few months.
WTFCNN? tracks CNN.com's sometimes wacky news headlines.
A list of fonts included in Adobe CS3. Interestingly, they have licensed the entire Miniml bitmap library.
Such a great idea for a blog: Ikea Hacker. Dedicated to the remixing of Ikea products.
Found+READ is a new weblog centered on web entrepreneurship.
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster gets some amazing, hilarious hate-mail.
Happy Cog is hosting a survey for web designers to participate in. If you got ten minutes to spare, jump in.
Panic gets into the web dev text editor game with Coda, an all in one app that bundles Transmit with with a text editor and other WYSIWYG tools.
Davidson smacks down the all-too-common practice of pagination and "page-view juicing" in online media.
Josh Marshall raises a good point concerning NBC's "branding" of the VA Tech shooter's media kit.
Darth Vader desktop picture, if you're into that kinda thing.
Video presentation of Firebug by developer Joe Hewitt.
77 hours of The Sopranos squeezed into 7 minutes.
More Photoshop CS3 links. Check out What's unique to Photoshop Extended? for a rundown of all the wacky things Adobe is adding. Most surprising to me is that you can open / place video files, and even output them. Crazy times.
March 2007
A little wet floor experiment I created with SlideShowPro using Flash's BitmapData object. I especially like how the reflection continuously updates. More info at the site.
Iconfactory releases Sticker System, a wonderful set of sticker-like icons. The CandyBar set is especially nice.
What's new with Flash CS3. Funny how one of their reasons to upgrade is "Adobe interface." Ouch.
Adobe announcing Creative Suite 3 packages and pricing today with a live event this afternoon.
What's the difference between the new Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended? Click here to read all about it.
Mailboxer. Killer little OS X app that adds smart folders for each of your Address Book contacts to Mail. Instant sorting of email by name.
Adobe has released a public alpha of Apollo for both OS X and Windows.
Get the Glass! Phenomenal 3D Flash game that has something to do with drinking more milk. Ahh, who cares. Fun game!
Christian Clown Training. Part 1 of an educational video for new and aspiring christians who spread the belief through Clowning. Yes, clowning. Be sure to browse around. Lots of weird, weird stuff.
Promo video for 'Home', the new online service for PlayStation 3 users.
Looking for some good stencils for OmniGraffle? Check out Graffletopia. The User Interface category is especially handy for anyone doing web/application design wireframes.
Santasm. Merry Christmas.
My friend Ben at Super Deluxe is the funniest man alive.
Oh Candy, I love you.
NBC is hosting a beautiful HD video of Spider-Man 3. About 7 minutes of actual footage, not trailer stuff.
Mac web developers, grab a free copy of Serverskine. Handy way to save logins and passwords for all domains you manage.
Going to see 300? Read up on the history behind the film.
I found my twin on Flickr. Creepy!
Need help picking colors? Colorjack is a slick new utility for doing just that.
Borat DVD designed to look like a bootleg
My man Aaron Byrd (and his brother Kevin) created a cool music video for Aaron's song "Cops on Bikes." Check it out.
Love TextMate? Check out TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac, a new book (also available in PDF form).
February 2007
Wired.com has been redesigned. Nothing drastic, but still nice.
MarsEdit, my favorite blog updating app, is back in development again thanks to Red Sweater software. And kicking it off in style is a new point update.
The Host looks deliciously entertaining. Check out the trailer and the official site.
Excellent typographic interpretation of Pulp Fiction.
Dave Shea has written a great post about icon sizing in the 72dpi world, where vector isn't always the holy grail of file formats.
NPR's "This American Life" will soon make the jump to television. Here's a trailer. On Showtime, unfortunately.
Iconfactory gets into the gaming biz with Frenzic.
Thrift store art remix. Really wonderful. I especially love Chris Hutchinson's work.
Don't miss Pan's Labyrinth, a dazzling, creepy fairy tale.
Cornelius - Fit Song. Also check out an interview with the director, Koichiro Tsujikawa.
January 2007
The Bootstrapper's Bible. Free PDF for penniless wannabe entrepreneurs.
Shaun Inman has released Mint 2.0 for all to enjoy. I especially dig the chocolate mint style.
For all you Flash nerdz out there, a preloader style watch.
Adobe plucking out their feathers for a new, simple suite of application icons? It sure looks that way.
So uncomfortable it's painful to watch. Stephen Merritt on Good Day Atlanta
December 2006
A beta of Photoshop CS3 is coming out tomorrow. Universal binary too!
Upload images directly from Apple's Photo Booth to Flickr with FlickrBooth.
WDDG relaunches with a style / presentation that'll tickle nostalgia in anyone who remembers those choppy, dirty science class videos of yesteryear.
Show your love for the Nintendo DS with these DS buttons
Rejoice! The latest version of VLC (0.8.6) can finally playback FLVs.
Firebug is one hell of a Firefox extension for web developers. The "Net" tab is especially nice for visualizing activity.
Screw next gen! Ambrosia goes way, way old school with the hand-drawn video game SketchFighter. Fun too.
November 2006
There are 75 musical groups in this photo. Can you find them all?
If you're a freak like me and obsess over keeping your iTunes library stocked with cover art, you'll love CoverScout for OS X.
Hilarious nerd in line for Wii. Helllll naw!
The band AIDS Wolf has some unique promo photos (NSWF).
Interesting story out in San Francisco where a suburban war memorial is getting some people all bent out of shape.
Vienna is a nice freeware alternative to NetNewsWire for your RSS reading on OS X.
Katamari inspired television ad for Travelers Insurance
Brand New. All brand identity chat. All the time.
New OS X dock utility from the smart minds at Ambrosia -- Dragster. Set up shortcuts of where you want files to go, and poof -- it's outta here.
October 2006
Colby Katz. Fantastic photography.
Inquisitor 3 is released, and the developer is no longer charging for it.
Adobe releases a public beta of Soundbooth, a new audio editing application "in the spirit of Sound Edit 16."
Yet another OS X app named Tangerine. This one though supplies a global color palette for all your apps. A bit expensive, but a lot of people I know would benefit from this.
iLike adds a sidebar to iTunes with similar functionality to last.fm. Something tells me Apple may build something like this into iTunes down the road.
Firefox 2 is out. Go get it.
Henry Rollins writes a letter to Ann Coulter
Wow, this is nice. Check out Tangerine, an OS X app that analyzes your iTunes library and compiles custom playlists based on BPM and beat intensity.
Spike the Vote allows blocks of users to digg stories, earn credits, then cash them in to promote their own content. Sneaky. Smart.
Paint, paint, and more paint. What else but the new Sony BRAVIA ad.
Funny, I thought the new Dylan album cover looked familiar.
Rabbit by Run Wrake. Words fail me.
Interesting Flash navigation and great photos at Brad Harris Photo
Google buyout of YouTube coming today?. Seems almost a done deal at this point.
Adobe has added true full screen functionality to Flash Player 9. I tested it out.
Battle of the bands. War breaks out between record covers.
Buffet Script. Swoon.
HD trailers for 300. Unreal.
If you've driven around Atlanta, noticed large photos plastered on the sides of buildings, and wondered where they came from, here you go. I drive by the kid on the bike everyday on my way to Williams Street.
Designers who use Illustrator and OS X should check out Lineform, a lightweight, fast vector design app.
Finally, a way to playback FLV (and a bunch of other formats) in QuickTime using the "swiss-army knife" plugin Perian. Works perfectly for me.
September 2006
Cookie Mag relaunches with a crisp, pleasant layout. One of my favorite logotypes too.
Create pullquotes with CSS and JavaScript without duplicating text. Very clever.
Liked the Honda Grrr video? Honda Grrr Game
Mii Channel. A look at the Nintendo Wii's social / online capabilities.
My friends at Firewheel Design launch DSicons. A paint-by-pixel instructional site for creating snappy icons for your Nintendo DS.
Seriously now. US President George Bush is to host White House talks on British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
Cooper Black Swash Italic. Good ol' Cooper Black with extra flare.
Roger Black is still in love with red, black and white. New personal site that, ironically, is incredibly hard to read (small white serifs on bright red).
Browsershots is a free site for testing your site in a variety of browsers. While not as quick as Browsercam, it's much more affordable.
It can't get more over the top than I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
IE 7 RC1 without that annoying delete IE 6 thing.
BitRocket is a very pretty BitTorrent client for OS X with RSS support.
Mutual Appreciation (trailer)
August 2006
When I'm home, this is where I work. Recently finished.
Someone used the Half Life 2 engine to create a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Kaufmann House.
Hey, you! Time to GTD with Inbox, a svelt new OS X app.
Style guide for people who hate style guides
NPR is working on a digital music portal that'll consolidate content from hundreds of stations.
From the crew that brought you Fuggy Fuggy, here comes The M Man
Yes.com compiles songs played in the past 24 hours on radio stations across America. You can even see the most-rotated tracks on each, as well as a fancy Flash app on the home page that displays real-time data.
By popular demand, a new version of SlideShowPro was released last night with an optional built-in thumbnail navigation. Home page demo shows the update.
NY Times reviews Idlewild. Strange editorial disconnect between the headline and the first sentence. Does it jump or not?
M Studio has an interesting navigation.
Just when you thought you'd seen it all, along comes the new Soulwax.com, home of 2manydjs.
Gucci relaunches. The widest website in history.
Add comments and ratings to anything with Mochimention
MTV Overdrive relaunches. Supports all browsers, built entirely in Flash.
Web Inspector in the latest WebKit build has a nice metrics display. How handy is that?
What's coming in CSS3? Check out this preview, with limited browser support of course.
When it comes to web video, Neave.tv doesn't fuck around.
Move over Mickey Rourke. Matt Dillon is the new Henry Chinaski.
Boot Camp updates with support for installing Windows on a separate disk. Where's that firewire drive I had laying around...
Finally, someone makes an attractive, well designed family of surge protectors.
I'm not a fan of wallpaper as a general rule, but these metallic wallpaper patterns from Paper Voyeur are quite beautiful.
Viacom and Adobe are hooking up in a relationship that includes online video. I can only hope this means the end of Viacom's Windows Media / IE only services.
Ladies and gentlemen, The Incredible Flying Lawnmower.
The Wall Street Journal pokes holes in Chris Anderson's 'The Long Tail'.
Daily Type is a fine typography site run by several Russian type designers who post original, freehand letter-forms.
In case you always wanted to know, how to make a plastic bag eating giraffe.
Beautiful mountain retreat with floor to ceiling glass wrapped with planks of cedar. Glows like a lamp at night.
LA Times arts critic Lewis Segal lists the five things he hates about (the current state of) ballet.
Richard Sweeney's paper sculptures.
Coming soon. Helvetica, the movie.
The Dual-core Intel Mac Pro has landed. One hell of dual boot machine coming soon to my house.
Miss Safari's Activity Window when using Firefox? Check out TamperData, a nice alternative.
Had trouble with Dreamhost the past few weeks? They explain why with their typical aplomb.
Can't afford an Arco? CB2 offers a pretty nice arcing floor lamp for a lot less.
Like the recent Hot Wheels campaign, Lego nails the essence of their product with sublime simplicity.
Bukowski reads, a scene from the fantastic documentary 'Born Into This'
Apple profiles Takagi Masakatsu
July 2006
The Science of Sleep, new film by Michel Gondry.
Dr. Hook and company are just a little high.
Migys World features lots of lovely illustrations by Miguel Ornia-Blanco. Beautiful site too.
All the Mac crap I use everyday
Cargo is an interesting spin on stencil typefaces
Not sure when this switched, but Bravo has a funky new look.
Nice PHP script for displaying your photos online in a magazine-like layout.
Silly old music video for XTC's 'Generals and Majors' with...Richard Branson?
It's the new sensation in home entertainment. The Drumbuddy. Puppet show at the end is deliriously surreal.
Not sure how I've missed this one, but PingMag is a fantastic design magazine.
June 2006
Loco Roco. Just try to get that song out of your head now.
Watch out PayPal. Google Checkout is live and out the door. Even comes with an API for developers so it can be integrated into third party shopping cart software.
The mysterious story of a woman on a pay phone overheard instructing someone to enter "rm -r*". Good geeky fun.
Really cool embossed patterns that peel-and-stick to your wall.
Slate redesigns with some huge menu rollovers.
Don'tcha just wonder what these guys are talking about?
No, it's not a loop. It's Head On. You apply it directly to the forehead.
How to redirect a web page, the smart way
Bob Ross, yes, that Bob Ross, is getting his own video game.
Pitchfork runs down the 100 most awesome music videos on YouTube. Shame some of these aren't higher quality.
LITBox is a nice spin on the Ajax dialog box popping up everywhere these days.
Speaking of Threadless, wonderful typography in this Quick Brown Fox T-Shirt. If only it wasn't banana colored.
Font foundry T26 has hooked up with Threadless to produce Type Tees.
Erik Spiekermann is embarrassed by the World Cup branding
What a cool idea. Visor for OS X emulates console mode in PC games to offer system wide terminal access.
Giving the X-Men a Digital Face Lift
Jonathan Hoefler and company have released Verlag, a new sans serif designed for the Guggenheim Museum.
Fans of Threadless will enjoy Oddica, a cool new t-shirt retailer (turntable shirt is especially nice).
Simple, elegant ads for Hot Wheels.
Design Observer has redesigned with a nice new layout.
Bookmark, cookie, and password syncing in Firefox is finally here. And it's free, compared to the $99 a year I'm plunking down to sync my bookmarks in Safari with .Mac. Check out Google Browser Sync.
After years and years of looking the same, Emigre has redesigned.
Browse for colors with ColorWhore
Google has released their video player for the Mac.
Fuego is a grill designed for the DWR crowd.
Check out Candy, a fancy new PDF design mag clocking in at almost 50MB. Good stuff.
May 2006
Safari Tidy automatically validates web pages from the browser status bar.
Stumbled across this keynote by Dick Hardt recently. I'm probably way late to this one, but it's a great presentation about the concept of identity in the modern age.
How much is your domain worth? Find out with Leapfish.com.
See the not-so-amazing transformation of a web site on this book cover. Seriously, a graphic and an iframe are amazing? I quit then.
10 Things I Hate About Commandments
Building Scalable Web Sites. New Book from Cal Henderson of Flickr.
Develop PHP sites locally on OS X? The new utility Headdress may make your life a bit simpler.
According to this poll, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming are now the only US states where a majority of people approve of George W. Bush.
Configure your own Bugatti. Slick interface.
Check out Cork'd, the new community site dedicated to reviewing and sharing wine.
FolderOrg is a nice little AppleScript for automatically moving folder content into dated folders.
Pitfalls of parity. How to compete by not doing what your competitors are doing.
Lots of great typography at Cafe Rio Mexican Grill, which makes abundant use of Pintor from T26. One of my recent fave typefaces.
Wonderful short called Tyger. Nice site design too.
Fantastically strange clip of David Bowie on SNL in '79
What an odd pair. Folkie Paul Simon hooked up with the multifaceted Brian Eno on Simon's new album "Surprise"
Momus debunks Art School Confidential
Linotype has posted a nice overview of fonts on football jerseys, with links to similar typefaces.
If you use Transmit on OS X, you should check out Yummy FTP. Very fast, easy to use, lots of great features.
The open source Yahoo UI library has released an interesting suite of CSS templates called Grids CSS, which can be mixed to create more than 100 page layouts.
Check out Lumen, a beautiful oil lamp shadow projector.
Ever wonder what a baby sees? I sure have. Tiny Eyes claims to simulate a newborn's vision over time.
Mac software company Panic is collecting screenshots of web sites that have ripped them off. Load up yer six gun.
The portfolio of Jim Elliott has very clever navigation.
Interesting Madonna photo shoot in W magazine.
A Sopranos video game is slated for later this year.
The Sketches of Frank Gehry clip I linked to a while back is now available in HD. Much nicer.
Fulfill your childhood dream of speaking like Darth Vader with Voice Candy
Add that fancy wet floor reflection to any image with Reflection.js.
Boy howdy! I would buy a DVD of these retro television IDs if it were available, but YouTube will do for now. (via Coudal)
A Brief History of the Color Red
Crystal Skulls are worth checking out. Free MP3s there too.
Of all the comic books I read as a kid, Ghost Rider was my favorite. Now it'll be a movie (QT link). Cage though? Eh.
A supposedly leaked trailer for Casino Royal, the next Bond film.
Lots of good looking, free pixel fonts at Semplice Pixelfonts.
Get a Mac. Funny, view the "Viruses" ad in large or HD. Really obvious audio overdub midway through with the PC guy. "Network" and "Restarting" are especially clever.
April 2006
View Source Chart is one of the most useful Firefox extensions around. Highly recommended.
Is Apple's professional photography app Aperture already dead?
Microsoft is cooking something called Wallop.
TYPO Berlin 2006 has some fun navigation to play with. Meow.
Blinksale 2.0 has launched. It's how I send invoices.
Are 5 second video ads the future of web marketing? Absolutely. Considering a lot of viral web videos are 30 seconds or less, it only makes sense.
Those IE 6 hacks in your style sheet are coming back to bite you. Read up on the CSS changes in IE 7 and what you can do to prepare.
Here's a Photoshop hack that'll be music to many Flash developer's ears: PNG export of layers from Photoshop. Lord knows how many times I've done this by hand.
Lily Allen. Especially like the Calypso-pop of "LDN"
Free set of vintage numbers from Psy/Ops.
Tivo alert. Be sure to catch the documentary series China Rises on the Discovery Channel. It's especially good on the HD channel.
Sketches of Frank Gehry (click "Trailer")
Web business and development resource Vitamin has launched.
Arrested Development meets Star Wars
See instant real estate valuations with Zillow.com.
adicolor is an interesting podcast of short films about color sponsored by adidas. Larger versions available here.
In the event of snakes on a plane
Pop-up windows that are contextual to their parent link can be created with DOMinclude.
Cool little Dashboard widget from HBO
Predictions for a Web 2.0 social experience
Beck has a new web site designed by the talented chaps at Hi-ReS!
House Industries releases the new typeface suite United
Holy shit! Apple releases public beta of Boot Camp, allowing Macintel machines to run Windows XP natively. And while they're at it, they've confirmed it will be built into OS X 10.5.
Ladies and gentlemen, the new New York Times
March 2006
Thank You For Smoking opening titles is a typographic explosion. Lovely work. Also see Typographica's deduction of the fonts used.
Really well done short film by Blue Tongue Films: Lucky.
Ugly is authentic. Who needs graphic designers?
Oh God, is this me? Up with Grups takes a look at the new thirty-something dad.
Watch out -- there's a leprechaun loose in Mobile, Alabama! The sketch is especially funny.
PSP Flash Player is version 6.0. I was hoping for 7, but it's better than nothing.
Remember the whole Quark logo debacle back in September? Well, they've redesigned it to remove any suspicion of copying or copyright infringement.
Flash developers, here's a nice tip: How to use trace() from a web browser. Full instructions for both OS X and Windows.
My prayers have been answered. You can now subscribe to The Daily Show via iTMS and receive new videos as they become available. $10 for 16 episodes.
No idea what's going on, but Viking Line is a lot of fun.
Promo site for the Walk the Line DVD. Freakin' huge experience.
Why hasn't anyone thought of this before? An electrical outlet that turns on/off according to temperature.
Newsvine is out of beta. It's everything online newspaper sites should be -- smart, clean, readable, and an extraordinary amount of content. Jump in.
Veoh is yet another video sharing site, but uniquely offers their own desktop P2P app to help distribute content.
Every song (sans one) from indie-country "it" girl Jenny Lewis is available here for free. Piracy? Nope. The web site is her record label.
Russell Beattie tosses web 2.0 under a truck with WTF 2.0. Good read.
February 2006
Bleed Designstudio has a great looking portfolio site.
Curious what typeface NBC used for their 2006 Winter Olympics promotions? Me too. I dug around for a while, and am almost certain it's Zeppelin 51 from Storm Type Foundry.
Something cool is brewing over at Wufoo
Top Ten Most Welcome Movie Deaths
Mac users with Gmail and/or Blogger accounts will dig these new Google Mac Dashboard Widgets.
Logitech comes out with a PowerMate-like input device called NuLOOQ (goofy name if you ask me) geared towards creatives using Adobe CS 2 products.
Google Page Creator is live. Browser-based, WYSIWYG web page creation that's simple, clear, and free. Mac users will need to fire up Firefox for this one.
Follow Jack Bauer as he makes his way around LA (and the world) with Jacktracker.
Bill Maher is back tonight, and not a moment too soon.
Atari 2600 code operations rendered as art. So awesome. via Coudal.
A broadcast engineer for NBC is writing a blog about the Torino Olympics; posting unofficial technical information and pictures relating to the HD television broadcast.
Sage words for designers. Live by the mockup, die by the mockup.
While everyone else is chasing drop shadows, gradients, and all kinds of visual volume, CNN International goes the other direction with a look that's completely flat, blunt, and sharp.
Fans of Macromedia Fireworks can breathe a little easier. Adobe doesn't appear to be killing it.
Yahoo! has released an open source user interface library will all kinds of goodies.
Might not be a good idea to eat Mentos and drink Diet Pepsi at the same time. Here's why.
The Altoids Singing Telegram. Check out those fancy Flash video alpha channels!
Holy cow. iStockPhoto acquired by Getty for 50 million. Just when you thought the price of stock photography was coming down to earth.
Over 500 pages of typeface specimens in the new "Linotype Typeface Catalog, A-Z." Only $16. Between this and FontExplorer, Linotype is doing some great work these days.
High-def versions of the Marie Antoinette trailer I linked to a while back.
Video interview with director Mark Romanek
The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
Loads of out-of-print recordings from Cook Records are are being added to eMusic. Plenty of interesting things to check out.
Browser-based web calendaring with 30 Boxes
Podslam is a new site for spoken word clips you can rate and download.
Loads of great interactivity at the Mercedes A to S micro site.
January 2006
Colorburn is a new Tiger widget that displays daily palettes for inspiration
How strange. An early version of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' in audio and video form. Charmingly lo-fi.
80s band Devo is back and updated as a group of kids. (via mefi)
In case you didn't know, cats can be quite funny.
From the makers of BBEdit, meet Yojimbo
Billy Bastard. Audio NSFW.
Cool collection of posters at The Poster List
Bill Maher to host a talk show on Amazon.com. Amazon getting into the original content business?
No Intel-based OS X version of CS until CS3? Wouldn't surprise me one bit. I doubt we'll see Flash updated for a while either.
ESPN.com has redesigned their home page, in case you didn't notice.
Alongside the news that Microsoft is now offering the Flip4Mac Windows Media plugin for QuickTime for free, it now appears Microsoft is also ending development of Windows Media Player for OS X.
Uh oh. Some people are going to be very disappointed. XP won't run on Intel MacBook, iMac, but they will probably run Vista.
Ditch the bulge. Levis is set to produce iPod compatible jeans.
New Intel/Apple TV ad. Very un-Apple to be promoting a processor, but considering Intel's brand awareness I guess it isn't surprising. Feels like that Bjork video.
The design of this Apple iLife '06 page is so damn pretty I could almost cry. Well, it used to be fantastic, until the QuickTime was replaced with static HTML. Still nice, but that QuickTime was hot.
Like you really need a link, but here it is anyway: MacBook Pro. I can finally retire my three-year-old, dented, crufty 12" PowerBook.
Motel Hell posts wonderful old photos of American motels. Anything but trashy, as the headline asserts.
Not sure how to get video onto that fancy new iPod? This is the last iPod video guide you'll ever need.
Adobe Lightroom Public Beta is available for Mac.
Apple plasmas to rock Macworld? Sandwich Man says so.
Let me get this straight. Apple copies Konfabulator, launches Dashboard. Yahoo! buys Konfabulator, and will now relaunch it as...Dashboard. Huh?
The Firefox Web Developer Extension has hit 1.0 with lots of new features, including a fantastic "Edit HTML" mode.
Fantastic typography at mediaBOOM
Extratasty is Flickr for cocktail recipes. Awesome stuff.
AllPeers sounds like an interesting Firefox plugin that'll undoubtedly be controversial for the file sharing.
Miami Vice, the movie. How bizarre this is returning.
December 2005
Lightbox JS is a cool little script for popping up full size images without pop up windows.
Amplifier helps creative people sell stuff. Kick ass interface.
Another year, another list of Typographica's favorite fonts of the past year.
"It seems the orange button isn't dead ... it was never alive."
Roll your own RSS reader with Google's upcoming feed API. Can't wait to see this one.
Interesting SWF movie player for OS X. Free too.
Help spread the love for standardized feed icons
The Google Zeitgeist for 2005 is out.
Thinking of buying an Apple display? May want to wait - Dell has a 30" monster coming out soon, and chances are it'll be a lot less, and with more inputs.
The Best Albums of 2005 from All Songs Considered.
Beautiful new HD trailer for Vendetta
Mac to Mac syncing without .Mac
Just start typing. Instant Domain Search
The drive for custom web typography chugs on with PHP + CSS Dynamic Text Replacement. Generates PNGs from TrueType fonts on the server-side. Works pretty well.
Some free wallpaper tile patterns from Village.
Veer has redesigned with less orange (reserved for hot spots now), bigger photos, and an updated Flont.
Trailer for Marie Antoinette, a new film from Sofia Coppola. (via Coudal)
Coming soon to HDTV: Food Network and HGTV. I can't wait for Food Network to make the jump. Those macro shots will be amazing.
Think you're the person of the year? Show all of Times Square your mug.
This article nails one of my biggest gripes about CSS - the lack of constants (or 'variables' if that floats your boat) - and how to create them with a sprinkle of PHP.
Got a question? Yahoo! has answers.
Fantastic Motorola ad that fuses an animated bunny with movie classics.
Record your desktop to a SWF with the OS X app Screen Mimic.
Who knew? The poster for Brokeback Mountain is directly inspired by Titanic.
How weird is this? You can now buy Adobe CS 2 with Flash 8.
CNN Pipeline is live
If I had the room, I would love to have my Dominey Design logo made into one of these bookshelves.
Got questions about Apple's new Aperture? Chances are you'll find plenty of answers in this lengthy hands-on review.
November 2005
Is this the sound of O'Reilly falling apart? Sure sounds like it.
Here we go again. Another CSS drop shadow technique for photos and block elements that seems to be the cleanest, easiest, most flexible of the bunch.
It's official. Firefox 1.5 is final and ready for download.
Eye Level is a cool new blog from The Smithsonian Art Museum.
How put your Mac to sleep by sending a text message
It's not a blog. It's Doodleblog
Show your love for Sony with this t-shirt.
Mix your own Beastie Boys track with these official a cappella audio files.
Bush was right! Kind of catchy. Heh.
Manage your iChat logs with the spiffy Chat Transcript Manager from Unsanity. Works with Adium and iChat.
What to do with Arrested Development now that it appears to have been killed, again, by Fox. Loads of great ideas in here. Any show with a following could use these, cancelled or not.
Creepy promotional site for the movie Tideland
Pruned is an unusual, inspiring blog devoted to landscape architecture. Always something interesting to see and read.
Inspired by FrontRow, MediaCentral is a free app with similar functionality, but includes support for EyeTV and third party remotes.
Shop by color with this awesome Flash app at Etsy
Is there a smaller, more powerful, 15" Intel PowerBook with built-in iSight coming in two months? AppleInsider thinks so.
Got a question in need of some anonymous feedback? Check out Say-So by my friends at Twinsparc, which was mentioned today in USA Today.
Japanese promotional site for Macromedia Studio 8. Flash Player 8 required.
Enjoy Greener Grass. Cute site.
Talk is cheap. Get a dollar from Google for every person you switch from IE to Firefox with Explorer Destroyer.
Watch out! Angry icons on the loose!
What do you get when you mix Flash 8's ActionScript filters with the Yahoo! Maps API? Arrrgh - a pirate map! Your turn Google.
Can't put into words why, but I love the design of the Repisa bookshelf lamp.
Yahoo! Maps, powered by Flex. Wanna get all geeky with it? Check out the Maps API for developers.
One of the better character entity references.
Minnetonka High School percussion group playing DJ Shadow. (Direct link to the WMV)
A tax return that can fit on a 4x6 index card? That and other tax reform ideas are coming tomorrow.
Loads of unique household items can be found at Elsewares independent art and design
BIG Flash ahead - Wolf Creek
October 2005
I have no idea what's going on at HondaSweetMission (some kind of audio blog, I guess) but it's quite interesting.
Get to know Grep and BBEdit
London calling. Last.fm is looking for a graphic designer.
Blast from the past, Finderpop is back for OS X
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. Are you scared yet?
Is that Flash? Nope. It's moo.fx, a super lightweight library of effects.
Sad Democrat? Become a Republican. Here's how.
In case you weren't aware, the world is going Comcastic!
FontExplorer X FC3 is out! If you're a designer and haven't downloaded this yet, WTF are you waiting for?
Well that didn't take long. Front Row is being distributed online, and works on any Mac. Apple? Can you take a hint?
Check out this amazing multiplayer game made in Flash for the Legend of Zorro movie.
Coudal, 37signals, and A List Apart have formed an advertising network called The Deck.
Mean Tangerine has relaunched with pixel fonts, stock, Keynote themes, and more.
UNO gives your whole interface in OS X a consistent appearance.
colorcalm sells audio/visual ambient wallpaper for your television
Introducing the official H2 salute.
Curious what your favorite PC game looks like on one of those fancy widescreen displays? Check out this collection of comparison screenshots.
The original 'Night of the Living Dead' in its entirety. Flash Player 8 required.
Tape it off the Internet. Real? Who knows. Sign me up.
Atlanta has a logo. And coming soon, an anthem. Some people are coming up with their own slogans.
20 best license-free official fonts
Fans of Aphex Twin should check out "Acoustica", a classical interpretation by Alarm Will Sound
Instead of going all 1024/fat-pipe like their competitors, GameSpot has slimmed down with a redesign much less reliant on graphical widgets and chrome. More abundant use of CSS.
The five reasons social networking doesn't work.
Get an early look at what Macromedia is working on in Macromedia Labs, a new site with alpha software, wikis, forums, and lots of Flex.
Stream video wirelessly to your PSP with LocationFree. At home, or on the road.
A look at the upcoming Measure Map blog stats package from Adaptive Path.
The origin of CTRL-ALT-DELETE. Bill Gates' face? Priceless.
The Noguchi Filing System is a unique way to get your crap organized.
Need a design concept fast? Try the The Ad Conceptor
In the spirt of the now classic Shining trailer (which was picked up in the NY Times) comes West Side Story remixed as a horror movie.
Not sure how I missed this, but FontShop has a nice typography blog.
Turner's new GameTap is out of beta and live. Two week free trials available.
September 2005
Check out Shining, a hilarious remix of Kubrick's 'The Shining' if it were a generic, feel-good film released today.
FontExplorer user on OS X? Select "Check for update..." in the FontExplorer menu. FC 2 is out!
Look inside the making of Flash 8
Future web developers will have it so easy. Check out the proposed CSS3 Multi-Column Module. Damn them.
Treehouse is a new PDF magazine for web developers. Sign up for the free inaugural issue.
Capote looks like one hell of a vehicle for P.S. Hoffman. Looking forward to seeing this.
If you have HBO, don't miss Extras. Last night's premiere cracked me up.
Google Video has dumped VLC and is now using Flash.
Well how about that. Microsoft has released a web developer toolbar for IE.
Got a PSP or an LCD screen with a dead pixel? This may fix it.
XML Nanny is a free OS X app for testing XML/XHTML validity
Flock is coming. Keep an eye on this one.
In an effort to better secure their browser, Microsoft has confirmed ActiveX will be optin in IE 7. In other words, off by default.
Time Magazine looks inside the iPod nano
Linotype is getting into the font management software biz with FontExplorer X which looks like iTunes for fonts. And guess what? It's a free beta, and will be a free final app as well. The end of Suitcase?
Flash 8 is now available for download!
Big ideas come out of big pencils
Planning to buy Windows Vista? Get ready to choose between seven separate editions. Sounds like fun.
Quark tries to dress up their sinking ship with a new identity. Too bad someone else had the idea first.
Control Azureus (on OS X) remotely with the Azureus Dashboard Widget. Just drop a torrent on the frog.
Sim Daltonism is a handy OS X app that simulates color blindness. Great for testing designs and color palettes.
No, it isn't a BMW. Check out the new M5 created by Armchair Media here in the ATL.
Gruber has released a free CSS syntax checker for BBEdit that's worth checking out.
Nano! Nano! Nano! | The shot heard 'round the world.
Joshua Darden's new Omnes typeface is very clean, warm and cuddly.
Freshen up your web stats with Mint. Just installed it for SlideShowPro. Easy as can be.
Jazz up your PSP with a whole bunch of free wallpapers.
Two must see Katrina videos -- Cafferty Goes Off and Anderson Cooper cuts through the political BS
NPR's excellent 'All Songs Considered' has a new podcast
Sprint has a new site to go with their updated identity
A satisfying look into the design of The Daily Show's "America" book and updated set, both by Pentagram.
Now it all makes sense. The destruction of New Orleans is an act of God against a wicked city. Remind me, who's the wicked one again?
Did Bush cut money for levees in New Orleans for the war in Iraq? Quite possibly.
August 2005
SlideShowPro 1.2 is out with some new goodies. Just saying.
Get control over your Mail.app inbox with MailTags, a smart organizational add-on.
Ampersands-rich URLs driving you nuts when validating your blog? Check out Amputator for MT and Blosxom.
Quickly print envelopes with Easy Envelopes, a new Dashboard widget from Ambrosia
Got Tiger? Want a free, complete CSS reference? Check out SeeSS, a fantastic new Dashboard widget.
Two giants of African music - Toure on guitar, Diabaté on kora - have joined forces on 'In the Heart of the Moon'. Check out an mp3. Magic.
I'll be damned. The always giddy Junior Senior is a pretty tight live act. Three live video links ahead.
Been a long road for all involved, but Textpattern 4 is now available
The Most Kickass FPS Guns Ever
Like flipping through a milk crate of LPs, Coverflow is the slickest iTunes cover art navigator around. Beautiful.
One of the best new features in Flash 8, especially for general Flash users - a handy video import wizard that makes publishing Flash videos easy peasy.
How cool is this? Safari supports the CSS3 specification for multiple backgrounds in a single element. Open this example in Safari 1.3 or 2.0 and view source.
Got digital crap? Want to easily share it with others? Check out Strongspace.com
Launch OS X apps old school style with the wacky MegaManEffect
There's a new mouse in town - Mighty Mouse!
DreamHost has a blog | Now the rest of the world can read the wacky stuff they send customers in their newsletter
Inspireme.tv has launched with a handful of videos including this fun behind-the-scenes look at Coudal Partners.
July 2005
So what has Microsoft been doing to improve IE's CSS rendering over the past few years? With IE 7 Beta 1, the answer is nothing at all.
Wonder why cross-domain files are a necessary pain in the arse with Flash? This slide show explains why.
Doom the movie trailer | Yeah, this looks pretty bad.
How to make Internet Explorer-specific Web applications work in Mozilla-based browsers | Or as I'd title it, how to make your web apps accessible to everyone. Very interesting read.
2.0 firmware for PSP adds a Mozilla web browser. Here's a screenshot of it in action. Check out that UI! And by the way, since it's Mozilla, could a Flash Player be next? Please say it's true.
Best Dashboard widgets for web developers
The web app Blinksale is out of beta and ready for business.
How popular are you and your contacts on AIM? AIM Fight
Signs of religion in the American South
Yahoo! buys Konfabulator | Wow. Congrats to the Konfabulator team.
Anthony Bourdain is back | My favorite Food Network show host is now on the Travel channel with a new show that looks just like the first one.
Why is Flash Player 8 so much faster on OS X? | It's using Quartz Extreme. In other words, hardware acceleration. Very nice.
MochiBot | Free swf tracking app
Strategies for CSS Switching | An excerpt of Professional CSS at Digital Web Magazine.
Typeradio.org | Now podcasting from Typecon 2005.
Did you know that VLC can play FLV files? Me neither.
When Vector Meets Photo | How to create those trendy vector people you see everywhere
The Common Desk | How to design a creatively stimulating work environment. Fun video, and the portfolio of work mixed in is fantastic.
Finding Nemo custom swimming pool | How cool. Love the shark.
Sparkplug | Firewheel redesigns their blog
What's new in Movable Type 3.2 | Chances are I'll be turning comments back on after this hits final. Some nice new features coming.
Stuff On My Cat | Because stuff placed on cats is awesome
What's it like working at Cartoon Network? Check out these internal movies and photos
Becky Carter Photographer | Seriously strange glamor shots. Check out the color examples. Via boing boing.
Design In-Flight crashes and burns | Crap
Flash Player 8 Public Beta | Very fancy installer. Be sure to check your player detection scripts against this.
MakingRoom | Beautiful new online photography magazine. And they're using SlideShowPro for each of their photographers. Very nice!
Sabadabada | Site full of 1960s Bossa Nova / Samba mp3s and cover art ripped from rare out of print records. Fantastic.
yDSF - Robust CSS Drop Shadows
Google Toolbar for Firefox now available
Too Much Bullshit | Drop dead hilarious critique of why blogs suck
RJD2 'Since 76' Video | iTMS music video link
David Byrne critiques Freedom Tower | "...a big fuck you to the rest of the world at the entrance of NY harbor"
All Things Considered podcast (iTMS link) | No content yet, but it'll (hopefully) be here soon. Link has been removed
Delicious Library made $54k in profit first day | ...and other nuggets of Mac software development insight in Wil Shipley's WWDC presentation
Frank Gehry's vision of Brooklyn
Make-A-Pass Dashboard Widget | Very handy if you need a random password generator
Best Live 8 viewing was online | My thoughts exactly. Half of MTV's broadcast was commercials and correspondents yapping.
Proxima Nova is now available from Mark Simonson | Would make a nice alternate to Avenir
What if corporate America sponsored album covers? | Hilarious Photoshoped album covers. I'll take the Guns n Roses one on a tshirt
Eric's Universal Child Selector | If you know CSS, you have to read this. Very handy.
Too Cool for IE | How snarky.
Our foray into mobile | Macromedia has an "Experience Design Team" with a new blog
June 2005
Out: Flash Player
In:Flash Platform
CableYoYo | Cord management solution. Link stolen from Moll.
CNN is podcasting | Note the orange "POD" badges. Expect to see these everywhere.
IKEA Atlanta Flickr photos | People have been camping out for days waiting for today's opening. Seriously. Who knew there was such high demand for saggy bookshelves made of particle board.
ShortStat Widget | So nice
Public Radio Podcasts | Come on Fresh Air...gimme a podcast.
Screenshot Me! | Handy Automator workflow for automatically capturing screenshots and uploading them to a web server
King Kong Trailer | First look at Peter Jackson's remake
Frusion Breakfast Brawl | Fun Flash game
ActionScript search plugin for Spotlight | OS X Flash developers continue to benefit from Chambers
Google using VLC as part of new video service | VLC is about to become a household name
Iraq War Fatalities | Fantastic use of Flash. No propaganda, just data.
Homeowners own nothing | Supreme Court rules local governments may seize your home or business for private economic development, regardless of public benefit or interest
NeoOffice/J | Native version of OpenOffice for OS X
Sony Aibos dance to Daft Punk | Wonderfully surreal
The Onion 2056 | Um, WTF? Alan Wake Trailer | Games are growing up Blinksale | New online app for managing client invoices -- coming soon. Biden running for President in 2008 | Hell yeah Website Payments Pro | New PayPal service for accepting credit card payments on your web site without ever redirecting buyers to PayPal WebVisions 2005 | Web dev conference in Oregon mid-July DataTiles | Fascinating user interface experiment video Talking with Arto Lindsay | The Morning News interviews one of my favorite artists The WebKit Open Source Project | Now open. All the source code you could want. Jaguar Urban Golf | Shockwave golf game What if John Cage had owned an XBox? Safari's search field | Very attractive, but I wish it degraded a little better JavaScript and Flash Integration Kit | "...allows developers to get the best of the Flash and HTML worlds by enabling JavaScript to invoke ActionScript functions, and vice versa" QuickTime 7 for Windows | Got Windows? Grab a public preview of the new QuickTime with incredible H.264 video 5 movies I wish people would stop quoting Quartz Composer Screen Savers | Cool experimental OS X screen savers using Tiger's new Quartz Composer app Document Palette | Fantastic OS X utility for creating new document templates anywhere in the Finder The Five-Bedroom, Six-Figure Rootless Life | Fantastic societal study of Alpharetta, GA by the New York Times
May 2005
Power Game Factory | How cool is this? Don't miss the demo movies
Pinki | OS X menu bar utility for quickly creating icon thumbnails. Great icon.
Emusic adding Sun Records catalog
ICFF | MoCo Loco is posting tons of fantastic shots from the International Contemporary Furniture Fair
Kyoto | New icon set from IconBuffet
WhatSize | Handy little OS X app for finding disk hogs
Trump has completely lost his mind
Bookmarks for web developers | Get ready to stay a while
Killzone 2 PS3 trailer | You won't believe it
Rize | QT Trailer
H.264 versus Sorenson 3 | Same file size, dramatically different results. QuickTime 7 required.
Chronicles of Narnia | Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe trailer