…but for everyone else, this is an interesting argument: Haven’t Online Ad Sizes Really Kept to the Same Size?
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Furnident zut alors! My definition is now No. 1 on Google. The furnidents in my bedroom look like they’ll come out fairly cleanly, too. Successes abound.
Newly launched: Gawker, a weblog finely tuned to the pace of New York City, covering art, commerce, shopping, trends, and that most important city standard, gossip. With a Corcoran ad banner, no less. Best of luck to Nick Denton and co. on their new venture (which looks like it will become a daily stop for me).
Vonage is a voice-over-IP service that is both dirt-cheap and easy to use. The future is now! I will consider signing up for a cheap plan as soon as I can find out how seamless the service is.
My all-time favorite personal Web URL: suck-my-big.org
New discovery and a close second: kickmeinthe.com
Stupid “netwert.”
Yes, rock fan, all those capitalized words in the “Lord of the Rings” movie reviews today sound familiar for a reason: Led Zeppelin used them in song.
“Twas in the Darkest depths of Mordor I met a girl so fair,
But Gollum and the Evil One crept up and slipped away with her”
âRamble On
HTML rendering tool by Andre Torrez. “This is a very simple application that renders HTML as you type it into the top box.”
Textile by Dean Allen. “A humane web text generator.”
And to think I’d finally memorized —.
An increasing number of design and IA sites are designing pages without any visual heft. The current move toward minimalist page design is prudent in the world of RSS and PDA feeds but makes for a rather lifeless browsing experience.
Gray text instead of black is the biggest offense. My eyes are feeling the strain of too many #666666 references on sites like IA/ and Xblog. On an LCD screen, the text is more difficult to read, not more pleasing to the eye. Note that Boxes and Arrows, an early adopter of the so-light-it’s-going-to-drift-away color scheme, has wisely pulled its body text designation back to black. The rest would be wise to follow suit.
Similarly, visual minimalism in page layout is pleasant enough, but please, give your pages some weight. The current weblog trend is gray text, pale non-underlined links, two spartan columns, and not much else. Yawn. A very fine line exists between basic and boring. C’mon, insert a third color or fill that open space a bit. Go ahead. I dare you.
What innovation can there be if leading-edge Web thinkers are publishing pages that look like glorified .txt files?
The buses on Madison Avenue at 5 o’clock on Friday afternoon were all running Limited service, which meant none of them were stopping at 61st Street, where I was waiting for one.
When a taxicab stopped in front of me, I decided to take it. I was not the only one: a man approached from behind me to take the cab for himself and a friend. In my best New Yorker mode, I shot him a look, and said, “Excuse me, but I was here first.”
“We’re just going up Madison,” he said, and inspiration struck: “Share a cab?” I said. The three climbed in and rode to 79th Street, where I got out. The meter read $3.50; my traveling companion said, “A dollar from you is fine.”
Instead, I gave a $5 bill to the driver, instructing him to use the difference on the remaining fare. “Have a good trip uptown,” I said to the man in the back seat.
“Thanks,” he said, then added with a grin: “Next time, it’s on me.”
I need a little ass (San Francisco).