Baseball weather has come to NYC. And a baseball stadium is where we’ll hold An Event Apart Atlanta in just a few days’ time. If global warming worked the other way — if the winters were getting colder each year — the world’s governments would have already worked together to reverse global warming. But when winter grows milder and spring arrives sooner, it feels so good it’s hard to realize how bad it is. But I digress.
We’re busy prepping for Atlanta, so here are some links:
- Minolta quits camera biz
- A former ad client, at one time the 3rd largest camera maker in the world, can’t compete against digital.
- “Would you write your life story in pencil?” was an ad I tried to sell them for their Maxxum line of high quality, 35mm point-and-shoot SLRs. (Instead they bought “More Maxxum Magic!”, a line I did not write for them.) Even so, it’s sad to see them go.
- Monochrom Brandmarker
- An attempt to evaluate the power of brands by making Austrian people draw twelve logos from memory, 25 people per brand. Via Coudal.com.
- Magnolia Blossom
- Mac OS X dashboard widget embeds social networking in your desktop: “Watch websites scroll across as they are bookmarked by ma.gnolia.com members. Spend less time scrolling through pages of text and find those eye-catching sites now!”
- Gapers Block
- Clean, good-looking, well written Chicago blog.
- In Progress: Logo Design (A)
- Cameron Moll on the National Gazette identity he and Jason Santa Maria are designing.
- In Progress: Logo Design (B)
- Jason Santa Maria on the National Gazette identity he and Cameron Moll are designing.
- Top 15 Skylines in the World v. 3.0
- An urban planner picks his Top 15 skylines. Via Gapers Block.
- Dieter Steffmann typefaces
- Immense archive of Dieter Steffmann fonts. “Acorn Initials” is typical Steffmann work. Re-blogged from March 2004.
- CNN.com redesigns
- 1024 wide. Looks great. Pity about non-validating table layout. Via Hivelogic.com.
- coComment
- In one central place, track comments you’ve left on blogs all over the place.
- My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
- “…total access to original tracks with remix and sampling… Download all the multitracks on two of the songs. Through … Creative Commons licenses, you are free to edit, remix, sample and mutilate these tracks however you like. Add them to your own song or create a new one. Visitors are welcome to post their mixes or songs that incorporate these audio files on the site for others to hear and rate.”
- Drupal
- Open source content management platform that cares about accessibility and standards.
- Airbag – Styrofoam
- Adventures in food management.
- Designers must write
- “As my ability to shape both written and oral communication improves, I am better equipped to direct the work of others.” (Via Cameron Moll.)
- In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory
- “Type designers might be convinced that our profession is vital to society, but we wouldn’t risk going on strike.”
- Ironic Sans – Pre-pixelated clothes
- “Stop worrying about whether or not the producer of that Reality TV show you’re on will pixelate your carefully chosen t-shirt. Beat them to the punch with pre-pixelated products!” (Via K10k.net.)
- Thank You for Smoking – main titles
- Beautiful! via Stan.
- America’s Technology Future at Risk
- A new study released by the Economic Strategy Institute explains why U.S. companies can’t compete in key new business sectors, and offers a variety of regulatory and investment prescriptions (via Thomas L. Friedman).
- Teaching at Risk: Progress and Potholes
- The Final Report of the Teaching Commission (via Thomas L. Friedman).
- It’s a great time to start a business
- Six reasons to start a business today (by 37signals’s David Heinemeier Hansson).
- IE7 Improvements and Bug Tracking
- Eric Meyer weighs in.
- W3C: Failed Commitments?
- Much ado about nothing. Forest. Trees.
- Happy Doomsday to You!
- “Washington was about one horseman short of an apocalypse yesterday.”