“After several relatively sad years for all font users who were looking for a professional font manager, Linotype is pleased to fill the gap with the new FontExplorer X. Font management has never been so simple, and font sorting, font shopping and font discovery are now more fun than ever. FontExplorer X gives computer users all the font functions they could need, and lets them decide how deeply they wish to dive into various font themes.”

“A reference site for collectors and fans of Mad Magazine… I am sharing my images so collectors will have an easier time identifying which issues they need to complete their collections. A side benefit for collectors who already have the issues is that viewing covers in this manner helps to preserve their precious originals.”

“CRIT is a project launched in the fall of 2005 by the School of Visual Arts MFA Designer as Author program, and open to all graduate students, prospective graduate students, and design educators. It is a forum for the discussion of the issues, events, and concerns of DESIGN graduate students — graphic, industrial, product, motion, web — from academics to the real world.”

Live, group note-taking. Five people in a meeting? Take one set of notes instead of five. Everyone types on the same web page; End ‘versionitis’ — take one set of notes; See changes as they happen; Publish instantly — stop e-mailing documents; Everything’s stored securely on the web.”

“The examples linked from this page expand upon a technique published by solarDreamStudios called footerStick, that allows for the footer of a Web page to appear either at the bottom of the browser window or the bottom of the Web page content — whichever is visually lowest.”

“This tutorial will demonstrate how to extract a clean mask from a photo of a tree set against a blue sky, using channels and levels, and then export the final result as a transparent .png. The general concepts may be intuitively applied to other applications.”

“If you’re going underground, why do you need bother about geography? It’s not so important. Connections are the thing… Transport for London provide nine current official versions and two interactive variants of the London Underground network diagram. The design has undergone constant tweaking, both to accommodate new stations and to clarify the network…”

“…if you think that newspapers before the 1960s were big slabs of gray type, don’t miss Jack Shafer’s look at Joseph Pulitzer’s beautiful early 20th century New York World.”

“Cursing, they say, is a human universal. Every language, dialect or patois ever studied, living or dead, spoken by millions or by a small tribe, turns out to have its share of forbidden speech, some variant on comedian George Carlin’s famous list of the seven dirty words that are not supposed to be uttered on radio or television.”

“…let’s say you’re not a Ward Cunningham or any other famous, visible, already influential industry player. You’re an engineer, or maybe a program manager. In that case, you do what many of us did at Sun… subvert from within. Here’s my little unofficial guide to creating passionate users for those working in Big Companies. Most is from things a maverick (but cleverly disguised as compliant) group of us did at Sun, while we could.”

“Last month I wrote a post about the pitfalls of being a webdesigner During the writing I came with the idea about a guide for business owners. Obviously a 101 guide is not the logical thing so I settled on 11 things, uneven numbers have more cache also. My idea was for the 11 things guide to be short and to the point.”

“A growing, collaborative resource that describes, tracks and explains culture, commerce, politics, media, sports, brands — everything possible, really — through design.”

“Since describing and pointing to my photo galleries back in January this year, I’ve received lots of positive feedback, requests for the templates, and questions asking when they’d be available. Since the galleries are a personal, non-paying hobby, they took a back seat to other more pressing projects. In my spare time for the past several months, I made lots of additions and tweaks to the gallery pages. Meanwhile, I also started generalizing the templates, keeping in mind that I might eventually make them publicly available some day. That day has finally come.”

“Reading through an article about Microsoft in Business Week, I was not shocked but oh so enraged by this bit from an interview with CEO Steve Ballmer: ‘We won the desktop. We won the server. We will win the Web. We will move fast, we will get there. We will win the Web.’”

“A firsthand account of how a small band of Times-Picayune journalists covered devastation and misery in their shattered home.”