“The on-line companion to the book ‘Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students,’ by Ellen Lupton (Princeton Architectural Press, Fall 2004.”

“Steganography is the science of hiding one message inside another message ó hiding in plain sight, so to speak. Think of steganography as the soft-spoken yet elegant sister of cryptography. Where cryptography scrambles a message to prevent unauthorized people from reading it, steganography opts instead to hide the message in such a way that it is not obvious that there is anything there to see. Read on for a description of steganography, with example.”

“This is a question for non-technical bloggers. (That is people who use blogging tools, not those who develop them.) Premise: We’ve reached a plateau in blogging tools. There haven’t been a lot of changes in the last two or three of years. The growth continues, lots more weblogs, and we’ve got better tools for reading (aggregators). Question: What’s next in writing tools for weblogs?”

“Banner ads turn ten years old. They’ve evolved, become flashy, carry sound, blink worse than the blink tag ever did and given birth to far more discreet things called TextAds. So what did the first banner look like?”

“For individuals who are neither designers nor artists, it may seem like those who are, use a lot of smoke and mirrors, magically whipping up each stunning creation. Artistic talent and creativity can certainly aid and enhance the final result, but design, in particular, generally follows a process. Each designer ó or design group ó develops a method for solving problems, then evolves that method over time. While no one person or group may view a problem from the same perspective, general similarities often appear in their approach. As I mentioned in a related log entry about my CSS Zen Garden submission, I thought it might be interesting to share the process I went through to create the design I titled Golden Mean.”

“I’ve been thinking about making a CSS Zen Garden entry for a little while now, but before I think about design, I wanted to understand the Garden’s XHTML structure. I don’t know if this has come up anywhere before, but it seemed sensible for me to make a graphic illustration of the XHTML file.”

“Back when ‘photography’ meant film and negatives, few people could convincingly retouch a shot of President Bush giving his State of the Union address or craft a realistic photo of John Kerry at a war-protest rally next to Jane Fonda. Now that such possibilities are just a mouse click away, computer scientist Hany Farid of Dartmouth College is developing mathematical tests to identify altered, potentially misleading images.”

“I thought I should just give you a little explanation of why I made this site and what it’s all about. Well as you could of figured it this is a blog (short for Web Blog) and I intend to just update it with news and views about the Virgin Group. I really like the brand, and from a younger age I’ve appreciated its versatility and just generally how ‘cool’ it is.”

“In September 7th, 2003, President Bush announced on national television that he was asking the Congress to grant him an additional $87 billion dollars for the next fiscal year, beginning October 1, to continue the fight on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. But $87 billion is an impossibly high number for anyone to visualize. Let’s have a look….”

“Animals make much the same sounds around the world, but each language expresses them differently. English and French cows sound the same, but not in English and French! Explore the sounds of the world’s languages through the sounds of the world’s animals.”

A weblog by Paul Giambarba: “Examples of outstanding talent which may or may not have been overlooked or forgotten and compiled by a working illustrator and designer.”

“This weekís How-To shows how to take just about any ordinary image youíve taken with your digital camera (or from the web) and make a photo mosaic. A photo mosaic is one large image made out of hundreds and thousands of tiny images from your personal stash, from google images or even frames from a movie. There are a few applications that do this for free, on Macs / PCs, and weíll show you where to get them and how to use them.”

50+ creepy, freaky, Halloweeny songs collected and mixed for your pleasure by Otis Fodder.

“So you want to build a web application? Well, so do I. I’ve built them before and I’ll build them again but I have a specific project in mind this time and I thought I’d share my experiences with you.”

“As a company that arguably did more to jump-start the desktop publishing industry than any other in the mid-1980s, Apple Computer has always paid great attention to the typefaces used in its marketing, operating systems and industrial design. It has also been a leading player in font technology development, and controls several patents important to the implementation of high-quality typeface rendering on computers.” (Thanks Veer!)