Links from 2008

"I’d like to encourage designers to open their mind and consider using some of the other typefaces that are often pre-installed on computers these days." 4 years back and most people still aren't really doing this.

So assuming that the time is right (and it might not be), what would you do to create a brand new agency, like what they did in the 60s?

UK advertising agency WCRS has just unveiled its new TV ad for “Think!” - the government campaign for safer driving. The ad is ripped entirely from a copyrighted video produced by Daniel J. Simons at the University of Illinois.

It always has been a missing feature: disabling the sleep mode on a Apple Laptop. Who does not want to use it as a big juke-box or go warwalking. The best looking server ever, especially at about one inch height.

Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever.

"Log into websites with the click of a button - never again be locked out". Powered by OpenID.

COZY SOLLIPSISM | HUMANITYs FRIEND IN AUDIO

The WRLC mix/podcast is back. Well worth a listen.

FriendFeedFeed

Too many social newtorking aggregators? Aggregate all your social networking aggregator feeds into one aggregated feed of aggregator activity feeds!

I always have this problem: "It turns out that all you have to do is hold down the option (alt) key during startup and once you enter your firmware password you will be able to select a disk."

Automatically watches what you're doing and logs it. Not sure how you'd tie it to a specific job without intervention, though.

Startups that hire incorrectly fail. They don’t probably fail, or maybe fail. They just plain fail.

Here’s another take on that: Fire the people who are workaholics!

Some good, some bad.

"MobileSafari is limited, however, by the fonts installed on the iPhone.2 Here’s the list.:

An overview of some of the top trends we cover on ReadWriteWeb; such as Websites becoming web services, Semantic Apps, Open Data, Mobile Web, Recommendation Engines.

"Environmentally friendly" being a relative term when it comes to hardware and power.

"The best way to get to the point of needing more is by optimizing for today. Use the strengths of your current situation instead of being so eager to adopt the hassles of tomorrow." Half agree, half disagree.

Among the various options [Trent Reznor] gave fans, the most expensive was the $300 Limited Edition Ultra Deluxe Package. It took just over a day for that package to completely sell out, earning Reznor $750,000 in revenue from just that option alone.

A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.

IE8 will be the last of the major browsers to add support for CSS tables, which will enable designers to use table-based layout techniques without misusing HTML table markup.

"The Google Static Maps API provides a simpler way to add maps to your website. Rather than use JavaScript, the Google Static Maps API creates map images on the fly via simple requests to the Static Maps service with HTTP requests. No JavaScript, no overh

"How to use hCards to fill in forms". Not a new idea (implemented on getsatisfaction.com signup) but good to have some source to play with.

In Her Gentle Jaws

Free album from The Depreciation Guild (two boys and a Famicom).

"A CSS layout that does not use DIV, FLOAT, CLEAR nor structural HACK!" It uses OLs. This is probably a horrible thing to do in terms of accessibility and semantics. Avoid.

Integrates SFTP right into the heart of Mac OS X. This allows you to remotely mount any SSH or SFTP server onto your desktop [...] and use them as if they were local disks.

Ends with some excellent form design tips.

An online proofing system that helps you manage the way that you and your team review, proof and approve documents.

"There's a word for this sort of thing. It's not "art", it's "content". And it's everywhere, measured out by unseen hands, mechanically dangled over the replicants' flapping gobholes; flavourless worms for android hatchlings."

How do we create transparent columns that can work in all browsers? What if we could use the opacity property but still have the content opaque?

Nicholson Baker on Wikipedia. Brilliant.

"Throughout the duration of this series, we’ll be speaking extensively about markup — XHTML, CSS, and a little scripting. Marking up a website is akin to speaking Spanish. There’s more than one way say something, and there’s certainly more than on

[A] wide-ranging dig into the past, present and future of the Semantic Web

Do you agree with the statement I’ve made on occasion, that those who can code as well as they design will always have an edge over those who do only one? Or do you believe it’s better for designers and coders to specialize in one role?

The 2007 Digital Economy Fact Book (pdf) is a tightwad researcher’s dream: In-depth, statistic-heavy, well-cited, and freely-available online. One could hardly ask for more.

New Grand Union site.