Wondering why this page looks a little spartan today? That’s because it’s CSS Naked Day!!!
Go check out other nakedness!
Update: It’s no longer the 5th of April; clothes are back on.
TheyWorkForYou Sparklines
TheyWorkForYou.co.nz is a great resource; it is “a volunteer-run website that aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on the activity of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament.”
It’s a really well-built site, and I’ve just discovered/noticed today that the Portfolio section uses sparklines to show the amount of oral activity for each portfolio. How cool is that?
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Government Web Standards & Recommendations
I meant to blog about this a few weeks back, but I forgot. 🙁
The New Zealand government has recently released the NZ Government Web Standards and Recommendations v1.0.
This document covers mark-up (HTML, XHTML, CSS), content, page layout, security, you-name-it; the whole gamut of site design and development.
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Let’s get naked!
April the 5th is CSS Naked Day, so twoseven.co.nz is going to get naked.
Admittedly, this is kinda pointless, since twoseven.co.nz uses a standard WordPress template, and so you won’t expect to discover anything remarkable once the ClotheSS come off, but what the hey, I might as well join in.
I challenge any readers to also whip off their CSS and jump in!
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A List Apart: Issue 234
The latest issue of A List Apart has been published.
I highly recommend A List Apart to those of you who don’t already read it. It’s an online magazine that “explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.”
A List Apart has lots of pertinent articles that are largely insightful, and also provides a very handy reference for all those I-know-I-read-about-that-once moments that we all have.
It’s published by Jeffery Zeldman‘s Happy Cog™, so it’s got to be good for you!
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Links: A Wire frame car and some Lego weapons
A wire-frame Subaru Impreza. So so awesome.
Oh, and some Lego firearms.
Beware the LogoMaid
I’m a long-time follower of Dan Cederholm, a top-class web designer from Massachusetts.
Dan has recently had his Simplebits logo stolen by quick-and-easy logo factory, Logomaid.
The full story unfolds here in the comments against the offending screenshot in Dan’s flickr account. It’s getting pretty long, but is well worth the read.
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Optimus Maximus
I remember seeing this years ago, and then mhjb linked to this some time back, but I just remembered it again today and thought I’d hunt it down and see how it’s going.
Due for release around December 2007 at a price of around US$1200, the Optimus Maximus is a keyboard with tiny OLED displays for each key surface.
So you can:
- Change the typeface of your keyboard.
- Watch the keys change from lower–case to upper–case as you press the ‘Shift’ key.
- Change the language of your keyboard to, for example, Russian.
- Load up a keyset for Adobe Photoshop, so all the keys for the keyboard shortcuts show their respective Photoshop icons.
- Have a keyset for your favourite FPS so you get the grenade every time, instead of the occasional knife.
- Gaze in awe at the array of colours sweeping the face of your keyboard as the ‘key-saver’ kicks in.
And other totally cool stuff that I’ve probably not even thought of yet.
As you can probably tell by the effort I’ve put into this post, I’m pretty excited about this. And I want one.
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No reboot
Alas, I’ve not got anything ready for the May 1st Reboot.
My sincerest apologies; work has been busy. Off-the-hook busy. So I’ll do something quicker and easier and not-at-all like redesigning my site.
My toolbox. At the risk of starting a meme, the applications I have use regularly enough such that they are always open are as follows:
So, what’s in your toolbox?