December 2008
31 posts
HNY
See ya, 2008. It was an amazing one, but ‘09 will be even better!
Shoebox gifts put spring in children's step →
Maxi and I sent out a Shoebox this year, and we will be doing every year.
45 Beautiful Free Fonts for Modern Design Trends →
Mmm, free fonts!
10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User... →
(via karldawson)
Love the last point in the list - Apple wins again! :) But otherwise pretty good list.
The power and problems of twitter
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Boag strikes again! :) Can’t help but laugh at this.
10 Characteristics of Excellent Portfolio Sites →
The Ultimate Collection Of Photoshop Custom Shapes →
The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook: The... →
A little preachy, but some good points none-the-less.
Woman returns $100K found at restaurant →
A rare act of kindness
WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” released →
LEAF - HD by Matthew
Finding Myself - Short Film by Josh Stocker
i can hasLayout? →
Thanks Olly - this finally describes why “position:relative” fixes so many IE problems.
Google Analytics — Yes, it is a security risk |... →
karldawson:
No solution is offered in this article - isn’t it as simple as not adding the JavaScript to the CMS admin pages?
FTA: “… exposing non-encrypted pages that Obama officials use to make post press releases and carry out other administrative tasks …”
If the pages were on HTTPS, had some kind of authentication or IP restriction, they would be safe.
10 Principles of the UI Design Masters →
Breathtaking and useful designs happen because the UI has been worked on tirelessly. It takes a real UI Master to understand how to make a terrific user experience on a website. Here are 10 extremely useful principles from some of the brightest minds in the User Interface field.
Why the IWF was right to ban a Wikipedia page →
Finally - a sensible reaction to the whole Wikipedia/IWF drama.
Brett Graham →
Gotta be viral, but pretty funny.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
– Heather Cortez (via cassiesheets)
We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
– Japanese Proverb (via asmallhope) (via whatson) (via emmbean)
Norton is Eurovision's new Wogan →
Bad news! Terry Wogan is no longer commentating Eurovision - he’s stepping down because of all the “Bloc Voting” that goes on. But even worse news - Graham Norton is stepping in.
It really won’t be the same without good old Tel at the helm. I’m sure many people only watched Eurovision for Tel’s comments and dry humour.