“Dear Mr. Architect: Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.”

Mid-century design Stylish articles for your modern home from Herman Miller, Eames, Vitra, Modernica and more.

“Intellectual property is one of today’s hottest commodities, and every Flash author should be concerned about the distribution and use of his or her original work. Because Flash Player content is structured as a binary file rather than as plain text like HTML, the Flash content appears more secure. Unfortunately, Flash Player security can be compromised in a variety of ways.”

Ahhh… memories. “If you were skateboarding back in the 80’s, you can probably think of at least a couple of skate zines that were floating around. They were typically high contrast black and white Xeroxed glimpses into different skate scenes from all over the planet. Skateboarding, music, art, poetry, funny stories and anything else these authors wanted to put through the copier and distribute wherever their skateboards took them. There are still some dedicated folks out their producing paper zines, but the zine boom of the 80s has certainly passed due to the emerging internet revolution. One of the standouts from that era, Bend Zine, was born in 1986 in the back office of a major BMX publication. Andy ‘Mel Bend’ Jenkins, the zine’s creator, remembers ‘I worked as an editor for a glossy BMX trick riding magazine called Freestylin’ and there were things I wanted to say/do that wouldn’t fit into the slick pages.’”

“For those of us who came to Web design from a print background, a great shock awaited. We worked so hard in our print work to perfect typography — the standard by which print design is measured. As we started into Web design, we discovered that we had almost no control over text, not even the text size or length of the lines. Years of dedicated learning down the tube… or is it?”

“Drool is the daily online magazine of Coupland.com.” It’s, well, visually … interesting. Collage, writing and more by author Douglas Coupland.

“Dear Mr. Architect: Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.”

“For those of us who came to Web design from a print background, a great shock awaited. We worked so hard in our print work to perfect typography — the standard by which print design is measured. As we started into Web design, we discovered that we had almost no control over text, not even the text size or length of the lines. Years of dedicated learning down the tube… or is it?”