HotLiberty.com design has launched. The Statue of Liberty pedestal never had it so good.
Please be patient. The blog isn't finished with him yet.
The Peking Duck is an expat living and blogging in Singapore.
Also a damn tasty meal.
Let us pause a moment to appreciate a particularly sterling example of the Customer Complaint Letter.
Ow, that's going to leave a mark.
The French government, concerned that the world at large does not already view them as laughable morons, has decide to ban the use of the word "email" from all government ministries, documents, publications and websites, replacing it instead with "courriel", a fusion of "courrier electronique" (electronic mail).
Such cultural insularity is a fine way to get overrun by neighboring city-states. Oh wait...
Finally, a wristwatch cell phone!
Now, where's my frickin' flying car?
Launched The Conservative Crust on July 8, still tweaking things here and there though. Chase is a fine political cartoonist in need of a righty newspaper. Check him out. And syndicate him.
Looks like bitmap fonts are making a style comeback. Here are some handy links:
BitmapMania
Mark Simonson - Old Bitmap Fonts
DSG4's Bitmap Fonts
And, just because I'm a font junkie, more nice links:
Font Diner - lovely retro fonts
Fonthead Design - some really unique fonts here
Font Paradise - large collection sorted by style
Famous Fonts - fonts used in TV shows, movies, publications, and other media and products
Finally, a font identifying tool:
What the Font - upload a sample of the font you're looking for, identify the key parts of the image through the program and voila! It produces suggestions on fonts that will give you the absolute closest look possible.
I love the Internet.
Idiots. Brazilian and Argentinian ISPs are notorious for their tolerance of spammers, small wonder the hacker community there is thriving as well.
No, the two are not necessarily connected, they both just overload my Anger Module.
After receiving not one, but two, emails today from "PayPal" requesting my credit card # and bank account pin #, I did some digging and turned up this article.
As prominently noted on PayPal's actual site, "we will never ask you for personal information of any kind." I'm paraphrasing a bit but you get the drift.
According to press reports, this coming Sunday is an online play date for scores of socially maladjusted dilettantes as they fire up their overpriced, overpowered overthrusters and hammer away at our servers for no good reason.
Now would be a very good time to make a personal run through your sites and make very sure there are no installation files hanging about from Movable Type, Gallery or any (particularly php-based) bulletin boards. Nuke the files, rename them or change the perms to 000, but close the door any way you can. Let's teach these punks that bathing regularly, delousing, and getting out of Mom's basement into the sunshine is more of a blow to The ManTM than any pathetic defacement they might otherwise accomplish.
UPDATE - *snicker*
So you've just paid to have your corporate site redesigned but not one of the overpaid monkeys in your IT department will demean themselves by even learning what HTML stands for, and the secretary's computer skills extend to pressing Place Bid in an effort to gain the latest sateen monstrosity destined to grace her already overcrowded (and extraordinarily creepy) boudoir. What is a bottom-line-conscious company to do?
Contribute is a nice new tool from Macromedia that allows the most thumbfingered member of your staff to update a website without requiring a server reboot and complete restore from backup. It's WYSIWYG interface resembles a web browser, allowing knuckleheads to drop in new pictures, edit text, etc. etc., all without borking the underlying code. It can even handle *gasp* hand-coded sites, such as those turned out by, yes, Sekimori Design.
But don't just take my word for it, take the tour...
Launched the re-redesign of Andrew Olmsted.
Launched The Bikini Diaries site. Featuring the scantily clad and the not-at-all-clad. Definitely Not Safe For Work.
