Recent Links: March 19 to March 26

“Activate The Death Ray is a Microformats and CSS demonstration site by Andy Clarke, part of the For A Beautiful Web series of web design and development workshops launching in 2008.”

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.

“It seems these days there are lots of conversations that have moved to Twitter. Quotably aims to make these conversations easier to follow.”

Engrave your Moleskine notebook with your custom image or choose from our artist series.

“Here is another Illustrator tutorial where I show you to draw a simple icon without the use of the Pen tool…”

“SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet. It does this by copying the site’s Web pages, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local hard drive. Just enter a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), press return, and SiteSucker can download an entire Web site.”

“Remember those oh-so-dated science books from back in the day? No? Well, here’s your chance to check ’em out. Images from science books of the ’40’s, ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. This also includes children’s books that have a science theme to them, like space,, astronauts, chemistry, physics, etc. Even books that feature what the future could be like, as long as it’s presented as fact (or what they thought might be fact).

“NO SCIENCE FICTION. There’s plenty of Flickr groups for that sort of thing. This is the real ‘science.’ The kind that only your science teacher could teach about in class.”

‘I call it “extreme user research.” What’s so extreme about it? Well, it can be done in 30 minutes per interviewee, and it generates loads of useful data that will have a real impact on design, thus making your website more profitable.’

“Posters, Magazine Advertisements, Brochures, Booklets, Publishing, Calendars, Greeting Cards, Packaging, Logotypes, Trade-Marks, Letterheads, Exhibitions, Show-windows… Graphic design, illustrations and printed artwork in general”

CSS properties from 1-3, links to specs and all sorts of handy notes.