Trevor Turk

A chess-playing machine of the late 18th century, promoted as an automaton but later proved a hoax.

Month: August, 2004

How not to buy happiness

The MIT Press, or something called Daedalus has an article called How not to buy happiness for reading. via

King Mole

The Viking King Mole. Praise him with great praise.

Branding Mozilla

Branding Firefox and Branding Thunderbird are both pretty interesting, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Yahoo! Buzz Index

There is a thing called Yahoo! Buzz Index is nice to look at. You also might want to check out Google’s Zeitgeist.

Well-Designed Weblogs

mono Well-Designed Weblogs and Volume 2 are pretty good.

Zeldman’s Resize Links

Resize 800.
Resize 1024.

IE Sucks

There is this: mezzoblue Side-stepping IE, and Quirksmode.

Mario Clouds

21C Magazine has a cool article about stuff that is cool. As it goes “Recently I hacked a Mario Brothers Cartridge and erased everything but the clouds.”

Seven Steps to Better Presentations

This Jeffrey Veen: Seven Steps to Better Presentations article is kind of nifty. Nifty!

Tell stories.
Show pictures.
Don’t apologize.
Start strong.
End strong too.
Stand.
Pause.

Floatutorial and CSS Layouts

Floatutorial: Step by step CSS float tutorial not only has a good tutorial on floats, but also a nuber of other useful things. List-a-matic is cool. Oh, and while you’re at it, you should look at Layout-o-Matic, which is pretty awesome. CSS is good.

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