Ok, Merriam-Webster has just announced it’s word of the year. w00t. The reason for this is that it was voted online. Compare and contrast to locavore, the word of the year for the New Oxford American Dictionary. Not voted for online. My favourite is the quote from m-w’s president:
“People look for self-evident numeral-letter substitutions: 0 [...]

Categories: breakfast links · design

It happens, on occasion, that you come across an image with text that you need to figure out what font was used. Was that sentence even in english? Anyways, your resident font guru is away and you’re left to your own devices. What to do? What to do??
Well, the good folks at MyFonts.com have [...]

Categories: design · geekfindr · typography

There comes a time in every web2.0ers life where corners must be rounded. In an old GeekFindr we discussed CurvyCorners which allows you to round your divs (more or less) very easily if not incredibly efficiently. Now comes RoundPic which helps you round your images.
It’s a super simple tool that allows you to upload an [...]

Categories: design · geekfindr · web service · web2.0

UPDATE: Well, it continues to roll along in the #1 spot on Amazon electronics. Its new available date is Dec 17th. Curious, I strolled through a few pages of the close to 700 reviews to see what people thought. It seemed that overwhelmingly the 1 star posts were by people who don’t actually have one. [...]

Categories: amazon · design · kindle

Ok, seriously, last Kindle post for awhile. But I started seeing a few people blogging about their actual Kindle experiences - sure only a few hours time but it’s worth investigating what people who have actually felt it (and aren’t journalists) think about it.
This guy got one and found the navigation metaphor to be very [...]

Categories: amazon · design · kindle

You know, I came across the Weightshift redesign some time ago from df. It made me think of an issue I have with websites with fixed elements on the page - headers, footers, left/right nav, backgrounds that don’t scroll with the page. They just sit there fixed to their position in the browser.
Gruber notes that [...]

Categories: design

There comes a time in everyone’s life where one has to shrink an image that doesn’t look very good when you’re done. Case in point, this links post I did awhile ago where I posted a line drawing of an archer. The original was sizeable so I needed to shrink it. Pushing that bad boy [...]

Categories: design · geekfindr · web app

The other day I was working with a buddy who was having some difficulty with his site. He had a dark background, but the center columns (with the text) were light. The light background was loading in late because some of the ads on the site were loading in slowly and as a result the [...]

Categories: css · design · optimization · web2.0

It must be typography week! Or at least typography monday and tuesday - following up my li’l review of Helvetica came across these links. The first is this guy that did a logo study on the progression of the Batman logo over time (via sfsignal). It changed a lot over time, but you can definitely [...]

Categories: breakfast links · design · nyc

You know what irks me about Google? Ok, it’s not the only thing, but it’s something that definitely bothers me. They have all these different sites (search, reader, calendar, etc…) and each one is quite simple in terms of design (far from meaning that in a bad way, I think it’s great). Each site, is [...]

Categories: design · google