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the big problem of IE and standards, explained
what if Saul Bass made the credits for A New Hope?
on classic and contemporary music
the beautiful rhetorics of usenet! "If you're really bored, a fun game to play is Six Degrees of Godwin. Take a topic - any topic - and see how quickly you can relate it to Nazis using legitimate topic drift methods."
danah boyd on Suzanne Briet, from the documentalist movement
phone voices
my essay on the reliance on appropriation inside the typographic world, and what it means for the whole type business and discipline
why the web design recruitment industry got it wrong; the alternatives presented are a bit too design-ish for my tastes (why can't you just design it without all the bling?), but some progress on the whole web2.0 thing nonetheless
news media, social network moguls and design critics are getting it all wrong
designs for timelines; some wonderful experimental and innovative stuff
great archive of GUI history
an ascii art-oriented bitmap file format