How to download (and print) free USGS topographical maps.
Clearview is cool, but not as cool as a NY Times feature on typography.
Check out this old Pan Am menu.
Corrections to last month’s letters to Penthouse Forum.
“We have to ask ourselves what is going on. What the hell is oozing out of our ground?”
Slick open-source eCommerce application.
What does what.
Crap.
I just invited 347 people to be my friend. I’m so sorry. It was inevitable and I’m supposed to know how this stuff works.
Would somebody please buy me one of these. It would make me very happy and, in exchange, I will make you very happy.
Survey software I may actually be able to live with.
A List Apart : The Survey, 2008
Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. Just do it.
I didn’t know this existed until today, but will certainly use it in the future.
Curvy corner overlays and IE. Oh, my.
Opera Web Standards Curriculum
Beautiful, simply beautiful. I do a wee bit of training now and then and have spent years looking for something like this.
More than 16,000 maps from between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Collection of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth images.
I don’t think so. Great MeFi comment, from someone with a clue.
The idea is to build an institution that focuses on accelerating social change, or accelerating change in the social areas…
I can see why they create fonts.
I keep telling people that tofu is evil crap.
And production drops off to nothing.
An Extremely Brief History Of Blog Feuds
Not brief enough.
It would be interesting — though I’m far too lazy to do it — to overlay this on one of those blue/red state maps.
Kreepsville Industries presents Cereal Killers. A spooky, kooky coffin table cartoon art book.
Let’s just take it as given that each and every one of those technologies works and is easier than HTML. Here’s my question: Is the total sum of them easier than HTML?
It’s funny, I don’t even notice it anymore and recently caught myself trying to link my resume on a job application.
Did you know you can buy these things?
I didn’t even know they had wars.
The David Rumsey Map Collection
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 17,400 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century…
Steampunk is a retrospective futurism: stories featuring technology as it might have developed with airships rather than airplanes…
On the life and career of the 19th-century American landscape photographer who captured Yosemite in stereo.
The Supreme Court is the least of our problems. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.
Index of English Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals
More than you would expect for such a small country.
Chippwa Lake amusement park (medina, Ohio) operated from 1878 through 1978.
If you don’t know what I mean, you don’t care.
Fundamentals, baby. Fundamentals.
The best, worst and strangest foreign covers of Canadian songs. No, Damn Yankees?
Here is a great collection of more than 200 clear images from diegomattei to help you with these tasks. Just apply your graphics on these surfaces with the layer option multiply and see how the identity instantly comes alive.
The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.
Thinking about it. Just thinking. Okay, more than thinking. Plotting. But not much more.
This just sucks.
Useful stuff.
I’m in the midst of building an ephemera site and this couldn’t be more timely.
Fixes and more fixes.
Make Gmail work for mailto: links in Firefox 3.
Whoohoo! Was keeping my eye on some chunks of bright stuff & they disappeared! Sublimated! So it can’t be salt, it’s ice.
Somebody has way too much time on their hands.
Introducing SenCSS | KilianValkhof.com
SenCSS is a sensible standards CSS Framework. Not a grid.
I figure if they use medium format it ain’t smut.
Time Warner is blocking all USENET access entirely. Sprint is blocking the entire alt.* hierarchy. Verizon, on the other hand, is blocking on a case by case basis…
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