i·me·michael

CSS On Demand - a Perl solution that allows the user to set preferences for three parameters—font size, colour scheme, image display. [via mefi]
Icon War
The Designers’ Outpost - a tangible user interface that combines the affordances of paper and a large physical workspace with the advantages of electronic media to support collaborative information design for [...]

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Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only please. Never underestimate your blip on life’s radar.
Yes, I was pointing out that Mark is very aware.of.his.Daypop.ranking, but it was meant as a bit of sarcasm, and I don’t want to infer that Mark writes with an eye on popularity. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. [...]

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Now that the bickering, and virtual frothing at the mouth has died down, lets take another look and see what everyone was up in arms about.
XHTML 2.0 became the talk of the town after a seemingly rabid Mark Pilgrim took it, and the W3C to task for leading him down the primrose path to perdition [...]

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…or, what I learned on my winter vacation.
In Entertainment

Maurice Gibb has died, and the family is allegedly criticizing doctors’ treatment.
Regardless of the disco brush that they are consistently painted with, the Bee Gees wrote some excellent music. Maurice’s passing is another in a string of musical losses.
Detained but not formally charged, Pete Townshend has been [...]

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