Current Glamour: Deserted Cities of the Heart
Current ALA: The Trouble With EM ’n EN | Typography Matters
 
25 October 2001
[9 am]
Honoring the first anniversary of Phyllis Zeldman’s passing. A few days before she died, we wrote this farewell. :::
 
23 October 2001
[5 pm | 10 am]
Our business site, Happy Cog, has had a face-lift. One page, two GIF images. CSS-compliant browser required; crummy old browsers will bounce to a crummy old browser page. :::
 
[8 am]
Everybody’s favorite royalty-free photo site has hit the bandwidth blues. With over a million registered users, the noncommercial site is having trouble keeping up with the demand for files. iStockphoto wants to know: would you support a major upgrade? :::
 
22 October 2001
[7pm | 4 pm]
“Budgets, staff and confidence have been slashed, yet you’re still expected to improve your site.” Redesign on a Shoestring @PDN-Pix.

Apple “clarifies” its position on the W3C patent policy: “W3C should promulgate only royalty-free standards, but should permit individual members to identify and exclude specific patents that they are not willing to license on a royalty-free basis.” Uh, okay. :::
 
[1 pm]
“Welcome to the Home Page of Joshua Davis.” :::
 
19 October 2001
[2 pm]
My Glamorous Life No. 62: Deserted Cities of the Heart. :::
 
[9 am]
In Issue No. 124 of A List Apart, For People Who Make Websites:
        The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and other shady characters) by Peter K. Sheerin: More than you ever wanted to know about dashes, spaces, curly quotes, and other vagaries of online typography. HTML specs, grammatical rules, browser bugs and character encoding—it’s all here. Plus:
        Typography Matters by Erin Kissane: It’s a style thing. It’s a usability thing. It’s a tricky thing for large content sites and a step up for independents. It’s typographically correct punctuation on the web, and ALA’s associate editor makes the case for it.

Call for Entries: “Bands interested in showcasing, filmmakers interested in screening, and webmasters interested in participating in our Website Competition, are invited to enter your works for consideration to SXSW 2002.” SXSW Interactive seeks “the best sites on the web.” The first deadline for entries is 20 October. :::
 
18 October 2001
[5 pm]
Textism’s An Annotated Manifesto for Growth skewers pretense with cruelly witty precision. It’s the perfect thing to read while you're stuck on hold for 65 minutes, waiting to cancel a DSL order because the company can't deliver before January 2002, and your neck aches because you've got a head cold, and you have to sit up because the phone won't reach the bed. Though it’s probably just as delightful in other circumstances.

The brutality that is Photoshop Tennis will resume tomorrow with a live match between Heather Champ and Derek Powazek. :::
 
[1 pm]
The healing power of deranged, bitter laughter: this entry from Textism, and these from mnftiu.cc. :::
 
[7 am]
Taking Your Talent to the Web, Italian style. Istruzioni per l'uso per designer di talento. “Se non leggete Zeldman, beh, e' molto semplice, non sapete che cosa e' il Web”—Jeffrey Veen. (We love it when he talks like that.) The cover appears to be adapted from a design by Carlos Segura and Partners. Hat tip: Marco Ghezzi. :::