Browsing Design

Read Architecture v. Carpentry  

Searching for irony “Copyright is important because it protects the interests of those who create and those who invest in creativity.” Couldn’t have said—or designed their Search widget—better myself. Oh wait. 

Read Application Anatomy  

8bitpeoples Digging this new (to me) design. Reminiscing about circa-2000 web design, when all on-screen fonts were pixel fonts. 

Daytum “is a home for collecting and communicating your daily data.” From the minds of Nicholas Felton (of personal annual report fame) and Ryan Case. Sadly, still in private beta. (via) 

Dear Adobe Anonymous snark directed towards a mostly-faceless corporation is always good for a little stress relief. (via email) 

An Event Apart San Francisco 2008 Jeremy Keith’s live blogging is the next best thing to being there. 

Web Triage: Methodical Madness The infamous SXSW panel picker is live. Love/hate aside, South By is about people. Not panels. And certainly not about the panel picker. Just the same, Messieurs Mall, Marcotte and myself wouldn’t mind if you shot a couple of stars the way of our presentation. Stethoscopes will be provided. BYOS (bring your own scrubs). 

Unexpectedly Quit Love the logo. Mike Essl does something productive with his Adobe Frustration CS3. I tend to exhibit Dark Seeker-like symptoms when using unresponsive apps: extreme aggression, elevated heart rate, hyperventilating, um, hair loss. (via) 

Favicons Did you know that most modern web browsers allow any supported image format as a favicon if you use the <link /> tag? One of the many tidbits I picked up while developing Fever.