Archive for July, 2007
playing in the sandbox
July 29th, 2007 web
I’ve been keeping my eye on the Sandbox Design Competition, looking forward to seeing what people come up with for the Sandbox Wordpress theme, and a few are starting to pop up. The results are supposed to be posted on Aug 2.
My favorite so far is Moo-Point by Will Wilkins. Will’s W2 is no slouch of a theme either, if you happen to be theme shopping.
I had been playing with the CSS on the site a bit but not nearly enough to bring it up to snuff. I’m sure there will be some more to sample, so don’t be surprised if you see the site changing in the evenings, or quite possibly horribly disfigured from time to time.
I love the idea of the thorough, logical, semantic markup of the theme, making it totally skinnable via CSS. Great stuff. Thanks Andy! Thanks Scott!
grind on!
July 28th, 2007 music
I’ve been a Nick Cave fan for 20+ years, and I finally got a chance to see him play again (the first time was 1989 in Los Angeles) with his new band Grinderman @ the Great American Music Hall. The show was sold out long ago but my source came through. (SKP!) I hadn’t heard much from his new band, but it’s Nick. They could have played cards and it would have been great.
They played a grungy, dirty, bluesy, hairy, sweaty, loud set and came back two encores playing Bad Seeds songs. Extra special bonus : Blixa Bargeld singing ‘The Weeping Song’.
So good.
(pic via The Jaundiced Eye @ flickr)
My Parents and the Internet
July 24th, 2007 web
Mom joined Facebook, and within a day she her third friend was a former Senator and one-time Presidential candidate.
She is on her way to becoming fully Web 2.0 compliant with flickr and del.icio.us (one bookmark so far, this blog, natch). Not sure if she’s a Metafilter user yet.
Dad isn’t bothering with the social web, but he did fessed up to getting a “D” in chemistry (but also slipped in the phrase “dual matriculated”) in this interview at Huskerpedia on his football playing days. Dad’s post-college career more than made up for that “D”, by the way.
Good stuff.
Weekly World News : Dead
July 24th, 2007 asides
Sad news for supermarket checkout line waiters everywhere:
Weekly World News Killed By Aliens, Zombie Elvis, Declining Circulation
Overheard in New York | Paul’s not dead edition
July 21st, 2007 random
A classic from : Overheard in New York
Father: They’re really promoting Paul McCartney at Starbucks.
Tween son: One of my friends said it sucks that John Lennon was shot instead of Paul McCartney. I felt bad when he said it.
Father: That’s a horrible thing to say… But your friend was right.
–Starbucks, 8th St
Related: Beatles song in diaper ads
CSS Redundancy Checker
July 21st, 2007 asides
This looks like it could be a very useful tool : CSS Redundancy Checker. It’s hard to manage the CSS files for large websites with lots of legacy content, especially when they have been through two or three redesigns. A lot of CSS cruft will accumulate through each redesign for fear of breaking a hidden corner of the site. If this works as advertised, “CRUFT BE GONE!”
when you give away the fastest home broadband ever…
July 15th, 2007 asides
when you give away the fastest home broadband ever, next time, try to pick someone who will actually USE IT.
