choose a date any date

here's a useful date-picker javascript calendar... it's not particularly nice looking code but it works on all the browsers I check things on. And i [...]

Dr Grammar

Dr Grammar lectures you on the difference between terms like toward and towards and how to use them in a grammatically correct fashion. Here's the g [...]

Qtrax

Color Blender

Choose a preferred color using the color picker below, and a 6-color matching palette (a "blend") will be automatically calculated [...]

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface

Michael Bierut from Design Observer talks about typefaces and presents thirteen reasons why you should choose a particular typeface. [...]

Art quiz

typeset comparison check

pretty cool tool, allows you to compare various fonts, by changing size, colour and style. Takes in to consideration the most common fonts available [...]

Google images

it's probably been available for ages but I've just noticed you can now do an image search in Google and choose to display only large images. [...]

Be a Bond baddie

Sprout

one design better than three

in teresting notion over at Stopdesign about delivering early stage designs and I'm quite tempted to agree. Recently in my freelance work I've been [...]

Motifo

Colourful bike

Scrabble (Typography Edition)

Add OpenSearch to your site in five minutes

If you use a modern browser you'll no doubt be familiar with the built in search box, often situated near the top right of the browser interface. And [...]

Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations

Fingerprint portrait

What is Wrong with the Use of these Terms: "Deaf-mute","Deaf and dumb", or "Hearing-impaired"?

Deaf and hard of hearing people have the right to choose what they wish to be called, either as a group or on an individual basis. Overwhelmingly, dea [...]

Screen resolution

Unless you are short-sighted or prefer to have enormous web pages, I would recommend anyone presently using their PC with an 800 x 600 resolution to [...]

Gusgus Arabian Horse

Link dump #108

How readable is your writing?

Have you ever considered how easy it is to read and understand what you write and publish on your site? I'm not just referring to literacy or eloque [...]

Birthday Cake Hole

And it was a happy birthday cake hole too.For six months of the year "L" is two years my senior and she doesn't really like it. It reminds her that [...]

Music Round-up May 2008