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Text Figures
link: Use titling figures with full caps, and text figures in all other circumstances, from The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web.
Explored this myself 4 years ago in Typography Time. Back then I was going so far as to wrap all inline numbers in spans of class textfigure. Looks like the future of […]
favikon
link: favikon
A brilliant little tool, can’t imagine how creating a Favicon could be made any simpler. via simplebits.
Mark Steven Ritter
link: Mark Steven Ritter
Not generally a fan of modern art, abhor flash websites (I can’t link you to what I want to dammit), but this guy’s use of color and shape to create motion is worth braving both. When it finally loads click on Recent Works or Runaway SuperModules.
YouTube - Federer vs Nadal - Battle of Surfaces
YouTube - Federer vs Nadal - Battle of Surfaces
crazy exhibition match, lots of fun. Update: not Josh’s link, this one’s a shorter highlights real that’s slightly higher quality.
Porfolio / Divine Blog
Porfolio / Divine Blog
Now there’s a blast from the past. Design inspired Mr. Glass’ trench in Unbreakable, with a touch of Matrix background noise. There are actually older posts, circa late 2000, I just wasn’t linked to them via Directory of early blogger users via kottke.
Road Food: Articles by Dennis Weaver
Road Food: Articles by Dennis Weaver
Damn I hope I’m out of these braces in time for this trip. Eating in constant fear of popping a bracket does not sound like fun thousands of miles from my orthodontist.
This Roadtrip America website looks like it’s going to be a handy one planning this trek.
Lolo’s Extreme Cross-Country RV Trips
Lolo’s Extreme Cross-Country RV Trips
Their 1999 trip looks cool, with stops concentrated on the west coast. We’re east coast boys, so this side of the continent is the more exotic to us. Might like to go a little further north, perhaps skirt through Canada around the great lakes. But then again don’t want to overlap […]
Rick Steves: Blog Gone Europe - Answers to Readers’ Questions, Part One
Rick Steves: Blog Gone Europe - Answers to Readers’ Questions, Part One
Rick Steves’ blog is back up and running, for those of you caught by the travel bug. Looks like he started out in Italy and is a big fan (this was on of your potential starting points, right Jeff?)
YouTube - Bayeux Tapestry
YouTube - Bayeux Tapestry – my English History class started out with 1066. I’m a big fan of this early stuff, and remain interested up until guns were introduced, although I must admit some interest in early rifles, but mostly ’cause they took so long to load each shot was more significant. And yes, my […]