Writers, if you're not reading Sara Donati's blog, you're missing a great series on facial expressions and other physical aspects of emotional reactions. It starts with Furrowed Brow and it's still going. … [Read more...] about Writing physical signs of emotion
Angel mourning
The Christian Science Monitor mourns Angel. (via Whedonesque) … [Read more...] about Angel mourning
Design Inspiration
CSS Vault Built for the Future Well-designed weblogs The Web Standards Awards … [Read more...] about Design Inspiration
Essential CSS links
Colored Boxes: CSS layout, step-by-step, the how and the why. Fabulous. Holy CSS, Zeldman! is a pretty comprehensive index of CSS, accessibility, and web standards sites. The author has highlighted the ones he considers essential, and I think the only one I'd call essential … [Read more...] about Essential CSS links
Diaries and Icicles
Via Plep, a number of historical diaries: The Emily Project Elizabeth Johnson Harris Alice Williamson Also the photography of Oscar Gutierrez. I think his Berries and Icicles was the photo I was looking for when I came up with this blog design, although of course I … [Read more...] about Diaries and Icicles
Illustrated MT Templates
I once drew a diagram of the default Movable Type templates so I could make sense of all the nested divs and whatnot. (The templates are more complex than they need to be for modern browsers, but all the redundancy ensures Netscape 4 compatibility.) Of course I promptly lost the … [Read more...] about Illustrated MT Templates
Remind me to register for a wet/dry vac
Note to household: the next time we buy Rudy's Bar-B-Q Sause, we really must put it in a plastic container of some kind before stowing it in the fridge. This morning we discovered, to our dismay, that the glass jar shatters badly and splatters Sause everywhere upon making the … [Read more...] about Remind me to register for a wet/dry vac
Web Goodies
BugMeNot.com, which gives you a username and password so you can bypass required registration on annoying sites. The End-All Guide to Small-Screen Web-Dev. "It takes one gigantabig tutorial to teach you how to build sites for all those itty, bitty devices." A great last gasp … [Read more...] about Web Goodies
Nice crown, Jim.
The Passion of the Christ: Blooper Reel, by the fabulous Paul Ford. … [Read more...] about Nice crown, Jim.
Just to liven things up
Thirteen Evil Things to do at a showing of The Passion: On your way out, ask other members of the audience if they have any idea whether there's a novelization of the movie. Mention that you hope that Neil Gaiman writes it. … [Read more...] about Just to liven things up
