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Welcome back!

In Odd, Websites on 26 November 2008 tagged awesome, video with Comments Off

Inter­rupt­ing a two day sleep-fest (something’s broken, but I don’t know what…) to tell you that I love this to pieces:

Wel­come Back from ImprovEvery­where on Vimeo.

Wall-e screenplay

In Things, Websites on 25 November 2008 tagged film, link, screenplay, wall-e with Comments Off

I’m not much of a film fan, mostly because they require a con­cen­tra­tion span of longer than six seconds. But, hav­ing just watched Wall-e for the second time yes­ter­day, I can con­fid­ently declare it to be my favour­ite film. Yep, it even beats Dot and the Kangaroo.

Should you not yet have the Wall-e DVD, which was released yes­ter­day in the UK and which I’m not lend­ing you because my need to stroke the cover and giggle is greater than any need you may have, you can make do with read­ing the screen­play.

Never let your hamster drive your car

In Hamster, Websites on 18 November 2008 tagged fritzy, Hamster, photo with Comments Off

“No mat­ter how much they insist, never ever let your ham­ster try to drive your car.”

I don’t see why not — it would be totally cute. In fact, it would prob­ably look some­thing like this…

Email Standards Project

In Design, Websites on 11 November 2008 tagged Design, email, standards, webdesign, Websites with Comments Off

The Email Stand­ards Pro­ject works with email cli­ent developers and the design com­munity to improve web stand­ards sup­port and access­ib­il­ity in email.

Our goal is to help design­ers under­stand why web stand­ards are so import­ant for email, while work­ing with email cli­ent developers to ensure that emails render con­sist­ently. This is a com­munity effort to improve the email exper­i­ence for both design­ers and read­ers alike.

As someone who churns out spam opt-in email news­let­ters as part of their job, I can assure you that this is way over­due. (via swiss­miss)

Pull harder

In Websites on 10 November 2008 with Comments Off

Oh, xkcd. 

Stop mak­ing me cry.

Travels with Barack

In Websites on 25 October 2008 with Comments Off

Travels with Barack
“Four years ago Time pho­to­grapher Cal­lie Shell met Barack Obama back­stage when she was cov­er­ing pres­id­en­tial can­did­ate John Kerry. She sent her editor more pho­to­graphs of Obama than Kerry. When asked why, she said, “I do not know. I just have a feel­ing about him. I think he will be import­ant down the road.” Her first photo essay on Obama was two and half years ago. She has stuck with him ever since.”

As photo gal­ler­ies go, this is strangely poing­ant. There may just be more human than machine in Obama. Whether that’s a good thing in a Pres­id­ent, I can only hope.