Articles Posted During May 2003
gruber interview
Daniel's Corner Monkey has a great interview with my favorite curmudgeon, John Gruber.
2003-05-23 01:04:21
new colors
Those who actually visit this site on the Web (as opposed to you feed-readers) will notice that I've changed the color scheme to alleviate the eye strain some folks were experiencing, obviating the previous style-switching mechanism. I'm ambivalent about font-size switchers, so that may or may not be forthcoming. It's likely I'll get around to redesigning the site altogether before implementing something like that. We'll see.
I also reworked the css filters table to make it a little easier to determine which browsers are affected by the various 'hacks' used to hide rules. This complicated the row/column highlighting (only available to DOM-compliant browsers), so that feature has been tweaked a bit & the resulting behavior is even clunkier than before. So, it's now disabled by default, requiring the user to select it via a link at the top of the page. I'll get around to making the selection persistent via cookies, but for now, I'm satisfied with the current setup.
I'm loath to make these meta-posts, but I think the changes are significant enough to warrant this one. If you run into any problems, please let me know.
2003-05-14 02:18:11
html entity encoder
I just added a simple tool to encode & decode HTML character entities.
2003-05-10 22:49:01
archetypes of art
Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a German instructor of sculpture who used his remarkable photographs of plant studies to educate his students about design in nature. Self-taught in photography, he devoted himself to the study of nature, photographing nothing but plants for thirty-five years.
His photographs were taken using either a vertical or horizontal perspective and could be magnified up to twenty-seven times their actual size, revealing extraordinary details within the natural structure of the plants. In the process he created some of the most innovative photographic work of his time; the simple yet expressive forms captured on film affirmed his boundless artistic and intellectual ability.
(Link via Boing Boing)
2003-05-05 10:58:53
