Archive for February, 2005
Four Years Since
An anniversary reminder from Anil Dash: it has been four years since Zeldman said “To Hell With Bad Browsers.” It was around then that we got to know the @import hack, started to shun Netscape 4 with div.ahem { display: none } “browser upgrade initiative” messages, and slowly began turning the <tables>* on bad web [...]
Use Unsharp to Sharp
Please, sweat the small stuff. Cameron Moll has some good advice for Photoshop artists on the use of Unsharp Mask to compensate for the problems of interpolation in resized images. It’s such a basic thing, yet I’ve been overlooking that step for years.
Loonacy
Loonatics? “Buzz” Bunny? Two things immediately spring to mind: Poochie and TNIV. They’re also talking about it on Metafilter.
Zero Dollar Business Plan
I feel that I must apologize, somewhat, for the increase in advertising on various pages here on my site. My rationalization is that it helps serve the hundreds who come to my site via Google searches everyday and want more than just my journal entries: sometimes, the content-driven ads actually have answers for them. Right? [...]
West Corner of East
The sharp southwest corner of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art. Photo taken with a Canon Powershot A400.
Rembrandt, Goldworthy, Spock, Hughes
I spent much of the weekend with Amy at the National Gallery of Art, viewing Rembrandt’s late religious portraits, Six centuries of prints and drawings, and Andy Goldsworthy’s nearly-complete Domes. We also watched Star Trek III: The Search for Spock on DVD at home, and later watched The Aviator at the new Regal cinema at [...]
Textual Resemanticization
Today’s 022005 entry is a study in textual resemanticization. The script scrambles text with PHP and CSS to impart meanings borne just as much by visual and typographical variation as by the words themselves. Go on, give it a try.
K5 on Referrer Spam
Kuro5hin thread on referrer spam references my entry Referrer Spam Attack in the first link.
SixApart Redesigns
Six Apart (Movable Type’s parent company) has redesigned their site. It looks pretty good, it degrades nicely, and nothing gives me a more overwhelming sensation of change than that new Livejournal section in the 6A top menu. The drop-shadowed, fixed-width, “vertical layer floating over textured or solid background” effect seems very much in demand these [...]
Valentine’s Day Bus Bombings
I sign on, and Mic messages me that there have been bus bombings in the Philippines: in Makati, General Santos, and Davao. Abu Sayyaf has claimed responsibility. I just talked to Mom on the phone, and the family’s all okay at home. (Updates will be posted to this entry as I see them. Leave a [...]