Browsing Elsewhere

Battlestar Galactica Concert Videos I love Bear’s blog. We’re intentionally straggling this season (better control of cliff-hanger resolution) so I haven’t read his recent musical posts (spoilers ahoy!) but I am looking forward to them. 

Designs “by Rakeem” In this case “by Rakeem” clearly means “originally created by and stolen from Shaun Inman by Rakeem.” Reported. 

Cubecraft Wish I had been exposed to more stuff like this as a kid. (via 4cr) 

CSS (in)Efficiency Jim Barraud echoes unanswered questions about the performance of descendant selectors. 

The Angle Bracket Tax Sure it can store just about anything but is XML the best choice for your data storage or transmission needs? 

Strawpoll: The Platform Rob and crew now allow you to create your own polls. Sweet. 

Targeting Safari 3 Good to know when you’re dealing with progressive enhancements that require you to override a property that other browsers understand. (eg. I’m using a 2px -webkit-border-image in the re-align which replaces a combined border/padding of 2px so I needed to turn off the padding.) 

Grin and bare it In an unexpected turn of events, I decided to strip ShaunInman.com of its colors this morning. Time to clear your cache. The previous version can be found here (and is for the first time pulling from the same database as the current version). 

Satan’s Logo Von Glitschka, Faustian graphic designer and illustrator extraordinaire, tackles the most sensitive rebrand since UPS. 

Processing.js John Resig has ported the Processing visualization language to 5k lines of JavaScript. Exclamation point. Seriously.