Internet Explorer’s bad behaviour, demoed and worked-around

Witty, fascinating article about the differences between Times Roman and Times New Roman

Via Stopdesign

Excellent article on CSS generated content at WestCiv.

I don’t know how long these things stay up—westciv charge for a lot of these—but here’s hoping.

Transformers breakdancing

Sweet.

I am such a child of the Eighties.

Great interview with Dave Brasgalla, Iconfactory master.

Not only does he still use a mouse to draw his icons, he uses a trackpad! I’m not worthy.

It’s in the air, that’s for sure.

Stuff and Nonsense has a nice little article on the topic, with links to some others.

Designing good forms is an area of web design I’ve paid too little attention to in the past. It’s good to see that there’s so much useful material about them coming up now.

John Gruber lays out a retrospectively obvious point. If you’ve solved a technical problem, blog it. Desperate bastards scanning Google for help will love you.

The big blogging buzz right now is a Livejournal from a female soldier in Iraq—so big, in fact that no one is willing to link to her for fear that she’ll be found out and forced to pull it down. Here’s a sample.

When they update the list of soldiers killed in this war, one of them from this week will be from my unit. He died on Sunday, the victim of a car crash. It was his first week. We had the service today, and what I remember distinctly is thinking that it was a great advertisement for the seperation of church and state.

OK, a bit ironic given my last post. But it’s getting to the point where you can’t announce anything on the first of April without the impact of that announcement being diluted by speculation as to whether it’s a prank or not.

The headline: Google: ‘Gmail’ No Joke, Lunar Jobs Are

Those crazy guys at Stopdesign and Mezzoblue have swapped stylesheets for a day.

Beautifully done. Don’t know if it’ll stay up in any version though.

There’s some pretty serious accumulated knowledge in the Typophile Forums.

Well worth a look.

Tim Bray visits the OpenOffice.org guys.

It turns out that OpenOffice already comes with a doohickey that will produce an XHTML approximation of most documents (Lauren tells me it’s shaky on tables); plus it’s got a nice HTTP library and APIs out the wazoo. Can you see what I’m thinking? There’s no reason this sucker shouldn’t have a “Blog this” button that XHTML-i-fies whatever you’re typing, lets you preview, and then lets you ship it out via one of the existing blogging APIs or the Atom API.

Geeks like me are fine with writing in Emacs, but lots of people seem to like writing in word processors, and as of this week, I think that any word processor without a “Blog This” button is just broken.

I’ve been thinking for a while that OO.o can make a pretty good XHTML editor. More soon.

The inestimable Timothy Burke imagines Lord of the Rings as a Massively-Multiplayer RPG:

Legoolaas the warrior-mage opened his eyes and looked out over Lorien. He nodded politely at Ligoliz, Legalos, Legolass, Logolas, and Leggollas as he unlimbered a generic sword. “I shall call you Plastic,” he said proudly to the blade.

Via Electrolite, a sharp commentary on the recent Salon sf-cooties review blow-up.

I’ve got some ideas I want to explore about the state of science fiction television production—how the potentials have changed, what aspects of wider television production have influenced the creation of modern sf television.

I haven’t got time to work them out in detail yet but what I want to get to is some kind of description of the historical transformations in the industry that has made Doctor Who viable television again.

Yes, I am a monomaniac, but it is my thesis topic, after all.