Crash Boom Bop
- The path the plane took
- Interactive graphic shows path taken by single-engine plane registered to New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle that crashed into a residential high-rise on East 72nd Street, yesterday, killing Lidle and his flight instructor. It’s amazing how disasters lend themselves to the creation of cool infographics.
- Subtraction + Zeldman
- Khoi Vinh (AIGA/New York board of directors, design director for nytimes.com) should interview himself, but instead he interviews me on the cusp of my AIGA New York talk next week. As previewed in the interview, my talk will focus on how to build relationships that let you sell clients good work.
- Web 2.0 Validator
- Hilarious. (The score for 37signals.com is 7 out of 52.)
- Meyerweb: W3C Change
- The third (and most radical) of Eric Meyer’s proposals to save the W3C from irrelevance: “Transform the W3C from a member-funded organization to a financially independent entity.”
- Fireside Chat
- Cederholm, Sims, Santa Maria, and Storey tell 37signals what they think of the state of web design. (Things I did not know before: no boxes, grids, or columns were used in web design until web standards came along to ruin everything.)
- Daring Fireball: Qualcomm ends Eudora development
- I’ll stop using Eudora when they pry it from my cold, dead, one-button-mouse-clutching fingers. Oops, maybe sooner than that.
- UsedWigs Radio Podcast 18
- He could have been a radio star: Greg Hoy of Happy Cog Philadelphia is interviewed.
- 0sil8
- Jason Kottke’s first website. Take that, Ze Frank!
- Class Critique
- Jason Santa Maria takes it on the chin.
Tags: design, AIGA, webstandards, happycog, jasons
Filed under: 37signals, Design, Standards, Zeldman, industry, war, peace, and justice
Re: Airplane. Sad news indeed. Interestingly, I heard that most of the plane’s fuselage literally disintegrated. Where have I heard that before?? What do you think about those modern fuselages that disintegrate on impact?
Re: Osil8. Do you think those hidden pleasures are still fashionable?. Wait a second! is that site up to date?
[...] Motion for accessibility: This is a grim example — New York Times showing the path of Cory Lidle’s plane — but it’s a clear demonstration of how time-based graphics convey more information, more accurately, to more people, than either text or still images would. [via Jeffrey Zeldman] [...]
try putting http://web2.0validator.com/ into the validator.
OMG ROTFL
But it’s so much *fun* to taunt the happy fun validator that scores 15/52 on it’s own test. ;)
> But it’s so much *fun* to taunt the happy fun validator that scores 15/52 on it’s own test. ;)
Bah! Bah, I say. The Validator is BEYOND Web 2.0. Even past Web 3.0; it may be (Web 3.0) 2.0. I’m not sure. Certainly Web NG, I know that.
If we allowed The Validator to recurse over its own Two-ness, the resulting energy field would destroy the Web as we know it!
Say, maybe that’s not such a bad idea after all …
Not quite sure that it can be anything other than 2.7183… That’s Euler’s constant and “one of the most important numbers in mathematics.” If that was to change I don’t know how we would go on. Pi wouldn’t be Pi and we would have nothing to go with our coffee!
Hmmm. YouTube gets a 6 our of 52, Digg gets 13, and Flickr, just a 4.
It is right about some things, though; Flicker isn’t in beta, it’s in gamma!
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