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Surrounded by Giants

On Monday I talked to designer Roger Black about the projects he’s working on, including a few that we may be able to work on together. On Tuesday I met Jeff Veen and Bryan Mason for the first time — both formerly of Adaptive Path, and who are now inventing the future of font-delivery with [...]

Bahaha — Safari Lightly Mocks IE

For whatever reason, I viewed the source of a 404 page I received in Safari — I thought this comment was lightly amusing: – Unfortunately, Microsoft has added a clever new – “feature” to Internet Explorer. If the text of – an error’s message is “too small”, specifically – less than 512 bytes, Internet Explorer [...]

Some Weather Confusion

Maybe this is my new thing, documenting web sites that irk me. I’ll go with it for now, until the ADD kicks in and I forget. Anyway, I was checking the weather for the weekend, and noticed an odd thing — is it too difficult to actually pair up the driving tips suggestion with the [...]

Thanks Discover Card, I’ve got it covered.

I recently paid off a bunch of credit cards, and I just spotted this message when I logged in to the Discover Card site: No payment is due at this time. You have a zero or credit balance. For assistance, please call 1-800-DISCOVER (1-800-347-2683). Do they think I forgot how to use the card?

We’re at it again: ScienceBlogs are in the hizzouse.

Well, Monkey Do has again been busy, and again the partner-in-web is Seed, and again it’s a Movable Type installation — but this time we’re actually using it for blogs! ScienceBlogs is the world’s largest conversation about science. It features blogs from a wide array of scientific disciplines, with new voices coming on board regularly. [...]