Monthly Archives: April 2008

Daniel Myrick’s Objective

Daniel Myrick, of all people, managed to sound like a condescending marketroid chasing faded trends while promoting his new film, The Objective.

It still needs a splash screen, though

Matt Mullenweg on his new design: I wonder if there’s a way to only allow comments from people with Gravatars? It looks so much better. Boy did that rub me the wrong way. Still, it did inspire me to spend 2 minutes in The GIMP making this protest gravatar: I’ve no idea if it’s original [...]

I see no ethics here.

What started out as a simple bit of digital archaeology has spawned an epic thread touching on journalistic ethics–and common courtesy–involving many of the original Implementors of Infocom. There are also a number of comments from familiar names of the post-Inform era, including Graham Nelson and Emily Short. I’m sure that independent journalist Andy Baio [...]

As others see us

Incidentally, if people took a look at their sites without stylesheets enabled now and then, they might realize that their damned outdated WordPress installs have been compromised. And then those of us who run custom stylesheets wouldn’t be sick to death of seeing all the “hidden” spam links within said compromised blogs. Just a thought….

Naked Structure

I’m participating in this year’s CSS Naked Day, using a plugin by Aja Lorenzo Lapus. I wouldn’t be much of a structure geek if I didn’t support semantic markup and clean separation of content from design, now would I? Amusingly, this naked look is very nearly the way I see most web pages every single [...]