A straightforward breakdown of the state and usefulness of CSS Media Queries that pulls together the various points of contention.
Archives for August 2010
Scott Adams Tries to Build an Eco-Friendly House
A fun and yet, oddly informative opinion piece on building a green home by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert.
He notes at one point, "I went into the process thinking that green homes were ugly because hippies have bad taste. That turns out to be nothing but a coincidence." This is followed up by an explanation as to the causes of said ugliness – color of the roof, lack of windows, little-to-no grass etc.
This is well worth the read, even if you don't plan to build a green home any time soon.
keep your spot…
Mollie Johanson's quirky DIY bookmark project. This opens up a lot of ideas for interesting placeholders and should inspire some neat projects for kids and adults.
Andy's Most Useful Knots
I've had this desire at the back of my mind to re-learn a lot of the knots I've forgotten since my days as a Boy Scout. I'm rather embarrassed that I remember so few of them actually. Andy's collection of knots looks like a great place to start digging in.
Bonus: knots look like a fun way to keep my hands busy while watching TV.
Creating a Table of Contents in OmniGraffle with AppleScript
I've been waiting for this functionality for a very long time and I truly hope the folks at Omni include this as a feature in an upcoming release. Until then, we can thank the fine people at UNITiD for this AppleScript.
PaintbrushJS
"A lightweight browser-based image processing library".
JavaScript's come a long way. This library provides a wealth of image manipulation capabilities, including tints, blur, noise, sepia and grayscale – all handled by the browser. What a sweet way to ensure you don't have to reprocess your images the next time you redesign your site.