Microlog
Microlog entries posted in October 2005
Israel accused of ‘road apartheid’ in West Bank
Sadly, this isn’t very surprising. I know why Israel feels it has a moral imperative to commit such actions — they want to prevent any means that Palestinian militants can use to attack Israelis — but since these actions are usually at the expense of innocent Palestinians, there’s really no morality there. Conservative Israelis need to sit down and think about what their government is really doing, what their attitudes and behaviour are fostering, and what the bigger picture really looks like — and they have to go first, if they need a moral imperative so badly. Only then can we ever get to a path which leads to the disappearance of Hamas and their ilk, and the birth of a free Palestine co-existing with Israel for mutual benefit. Permalink ·
The Observer on the Muji phenomenon
This is a great article. I’m a fan; Muji just happens to manifest my preferred design aesthetic. And besides, their branch in Dublin is the only place where I could find a plain black pencil case. Permalink ·
Footnotes and Textpander
Filing this for future reference. Permalink ·
Orwell’s Six Rules
I’m going to print these out and stick them up somewhere. Permalink ·
Keith Waterhouse on weblogs?
An old post from Tom Coates that deserves re-reading. Permalink ·
Ryerson Review of Journalism
Good media magazine produced by final year undergrads. And it’s free! Permalink ·
Leonardo Da Vinci: Of the order of learning to draw
Good advice from the master. Permalink ·
The Design Encyclopedia
A potentially invaluable resource. Permalink ·
Books on adaptive design
If someone would be kind enough to buy me lots of these, I’d really appreciate it. Permalink ·
Web Developer’s Handbook
This is the mother lode. Permalink ·
Visual Editors
They could do with some help on their own page layout. Can you say ‘irony’? Permalink ·
Whitespace
A weblog about design. Looks interesting. Permalink ·
CSS Color Chart
Lots of colours. Lots. Permalink ·
Crit: The SVA Graduate Student Design Blog [c/o Design Observer]
Might be good. Might be pretentious bollocks. I’ll give it some time. Permalink ·
National Geographic’s WildCam Africa
Real-time video from a watering hole in Botswana, and the single coolest thing I’ve found online this year. I’ve only been watching for ten minutes and I’ve already seen an ostrich, an elephant and a crocodile having lunch! Oh boy! Permalink ·
Papercraft 12-sided calendar [c/o Submit Response]
Handy. (Note to self: buy new ink for printer.) Permalink ·
Typetester [c/o del.icio.us/plasticbag]
A cool web app for comparing screen fonts. Permalink ·
CSS Techniques Roundup [c/o Airbag]
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Introducing the CSS3 Multi-Column Module
Lovely. Browser support will be coming along any year now. Permalink ·
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