A list of things that can’t be photographed/designed as stock photography: “The DNA List (That’s Do Not Accept) is the place to contribute your knowledge of copyright issues. Know of a trademarked building or product? Post it here, and help everyone stay current. Our experts will make sure everything is correct.”

“Photoshop Plug-in That Automatically Corrects Skin Color: If you are a fashion, portrait, or wedding photographer, you know first-hand how difficult it is to correct skin color. You tweak, adjust, and experiment with Curves, but the slightest alteration can cause an unwanted color shift.”

“One ‘Gasoline Alley’ Sunday page from 1930 offers a typically bittersweet moment. As father and son take a walk in the fall, Skeezix asks Uncle Walt why the leaves change color. (King was the first cartoonist to forgo the convention of comic strip time and let his characters age.) The answers that Walt provides are less important than the tone and texture of the scene, a leisurely communion between parent and child marked by an undercurrent of sadness, the feeling that even when the idealized world of comics brings fathers and sons together, they will not be together forever.”

“Snap Type. Snag Cash. In celebration of Type Week in New York City, FontShop presents FontHunt, a typographic scavenger hunt. Document the signs and letters of the city and win cash prizes.” (Thanks kottke.org!)

“There is nothing more frustrating than a bad client that turns your project into a nightmare. I’ve had my share of them and I thought I’d give my ways I handle them. While some seasoned professional illustrators may differ with my methods, I believe that these will could be an aid to you as well.”

“Despite posing well-known risks, websites continue to feature poorly designed scrollbars. Among the ongoing problems that result are frustrated users, accessibility challenges, and missed content.”

“In a world of images, words sometimes don’t seem to have as much value as appearances. But what about the appearance of words? While most of us don’t think about typography, beyond choosing among the preinstalled fonts in our home computers, consider an up-and-coming font, like Bello. Bello recently won a best new ”display font” award from the Type Directors Club, and is on pace to sell a respectable 160 licenses in its first year.”

“To solve the javascript issue the styled form controls needed to be dynamically inserted into the page using a javascript. No javascript, no change. Original experiments with innerHTML and regExp failed miserably and proved inelegant. However I am still using innerHTML to produce the styled buttons in Internet Explorer. To solve the CSS problem the styled form controls needed to be invisible with CSS disabled, and likewise the unstyled controls needed to be visible.”

“Just because you’ve used lots of software doesn’t mean you can write code. Just because you’ve been in lots of buildings doesn’t mean you can be an architect. And just because you’ve logged a million frequent flyer miles doesn’t mean you can fly a plane.”

“Get your education from the streets.”

“The more graphic design monographs are published, the less certain we seem to be about their purpose. Are they history? Inspiration? Self promotion? Self indulgence? This confusion often begins with the subjects themselves. Some emulate the authority of the art history book but add confessional captions suited to a tell-all memoir. Others lose themselves in experimental layouts that provide a live demonstration of creative viruosity, but impede understanding by the uninitiated. And then there’s Rick Valicenti.”

“Moments after Silicon Valley blogger Matt Marshall saw a New York Times story saying Microsoft Corp. was in talks to acquire Internet marketer Claria Corp. last month he raised questions about it. Mr. Marshall, writing in his Web log, called the report ’strange’ and mused about whether the paper had been led astray by an anonymous source. A blogger critiquing the mainstream media is hardly unusual. But Mr. Marshall is also a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News who had been following Microsoft and Claria as part of his normal beat.”

“Purpose: To document the art of the doodle — that spontaneous expression of thought, inspired yet underappreciated; simplistic yet memorable; transient yet powerful denizens of cocktail napkins, notebook margins and everywhere in between.”

“Now available for download is Nvu 1.0 — a ‘complete web authoring system’ for Linux, Windows, and OS X. It’s free, and packs quite a punch in the features department — integrated FTP, site management, tabbed documents, spell checker, in-line preview, css editor, and numerous wizards for building tables, forms, and other elements.”

“So I like walked into the lab the other day and there it was just staring me in the face … and I said to my co-workers — like do you see what I see? And they’re all like — what? And I’m like — my gawd how can you NOT see what I see — it’s right there. And they’re like okay you’re starting to freak me out here — just calm down and tell me what the hell is going on. And I’m like look-at-that-f-ligature.”