Well, there goes that croissant.
Why I like Tyson: when I told him I needed a floppy disk for a 400K file, he said he could fit that on his tongue.
From Mrs. Box by Michael Chabon:
- She was a big, broad-backed woman, ample and plain and quadrangular as the state of Iowa itself. Hugging her, Eddie felt comforted, as by the charitable gaze of a cow.
You know, I haven't posted nearly enough pictures lately. Not in the photo album, and not on this page. So here you go. These are cousins I saw at a wedding last weekend.Well, I feel better now. You don't care, do you? Well, foo on you. Yes, I use abstract programming variable names as insults. So there.
Lately I've been working on a page that has to be highly accessible to people with disabilities, and am learning a fantastic amount. So many goodies that I'll always use in my designs from now on, whether or not I expect portions of my audience to be using assistive devices like page readers. One of my favorites: make sure javascript events don't require the use of a mouse. Instead of "onmouseover," use "onfocus" (although with the current crop of browsers, you actually have to use both). More here. Another tidbit: IE 5.5 won't increase text size if it's specified in points in the stylesheet. Use "x-small" rather than "10pt," for example. If you're wondering how your site checks out, run it by bobby.
For those of you who end up on my page looking for Rufus Wainwright's "Hallelujah" lyrics from Shrek (and now there'll be a lot more. oh boy.), you can find them here. The song was actually written by Leonard Cohen (with different lyrics), covered brilliantly by the late Jeff Buckley, and Rufus does a pretty kick-ass version, too.
Better than the one you had to do in fourth grade: digital secret santa using Amazon wishlists. Count me in! (via kottke)
Did you know there's an acronym tag in HTML? Looks like this:
Are you a member of the <ACRONYM title="Unemployed web developers union">UWDU</acronym>?
From A Model World by Michael Chabon:
- "Levine belonged to that large brotherhood of young men, often encountered in Academe, who are obsessively careful about two or three things -- the arrangement of socks in the drawers, the alphabetical order of their jazz albums, the proper way to make a Bloody Mary -- and slobs in every other regard."
My weblog ranks third for the search query "you have the little squirrels thinking with their little little brains."
Fisher-Price Loving Family Dollhouse Gift Pack
Special Gift Pack includes:
Loving Family Dollhouse and Stable
Home Accessories: Baby's Belongings, Minivan
Deluxe Rooms Newborn Nursery, 2 Figures (may vary)
Family Time Jumpin on the Bed Play Set
From the Historic Events in the Life of Moira Series: I made my first pie yesterday. The process involved alternately wrestling with crumbly dough and relegating it to the nether regions of the refrigerator. But success was at hand, and my mother has determined that I'll be in charge of pies at all the family gatherings in the future. Recipie came from Martha, of course.
Amory Lovins, CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute delivered the keynote speech at the UO's Sustainable Business symposium last night. While his theme was Natural Capitalism, I most most inspired by his design philosophy. Design is not about compromise: compromise is often people convincing themselves they can't have what they want. Good design leads to everyone getting what they want.
The best design takes a whole system into consideration, rather than competing components. "Optimizing parts individually often ends up 'pessimizing' the whole: integration and synergy are lost; complexity, oversizing, and inefficiency result. What's lacking is a sense of the big picture, the whole system" (and he's talking about automobile design). Whole system design can be applied to farming, skyscraper development, even government. Rather than viewing local government as a mob of discrete agencies vying for limited funds, consider solutions that benefit multiple groups for one cost.
Dare I suggest that web advertising could be approached in such a way, as well? A thoughtful, integrated approach that treats web content, consumers, advertisers, and aesthetic sensibilities together as a whole, rather than tacking an ostentatious banner atop an unrelated page? Something to ponder.
Just noticed that Netscape 6 can't handle my javascript title-switching script. Instead of printing "musings of moira | x" where x is some random title chosen from a list, it just says "musings of moira | undefined." I like that. We'll pretend that I did it on purpose, okay?
Tech wish list: A plug-in that listed your computer's fonts thematically rather than alphabetically in popular programs (Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.). All too often I know I want a narrow sanserif font in my graphic, but scrolling through the hundred fonts on my computer takes much too long. Particularly when I have to bother with all of those serif and wingding ones along the way. Wouldn't it be nice to jump to the sanserif section, or cursive section, and then look at them all in one tight group? When you install new fonts, you'd just pop them into the appropriate folder. In the meantime, I'm printing out a binderful of sample passages written in various fonts that I'll physically organize thematically. But, oh, the tedium!
If you're interested, über bored, or some combination of the two, I finally put my europe journals online. Or, if you're just a big font nerd like me, you might want to oogle the groovy european signage. (Only safe in compliant browsers (IE, Netscape 6) so far. Netscape 4 version will come another day.)Check out the ghosts of Internet Past with the Wayback Machine.
Am I right in thinking a Kottke-Hourihan type merger is budding between Ev and Maggie? Let's see . . . they spent Halloween together, and her brother seems to think something's up. In my benevolent dictatorship, they're the two bloggers I'd want to put together. Such witty darlings!
Big ol' addendum: Nope. Just a case of wishful matchmaking. Ben, who is her cousin, not her brother (slap on the hand for not checking my facts!) set me straight.
Just a sample of the search queries that led people to my blog yesterday:
#reqs: search term
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1: london dark alley photo
1: painted women
1: lyric just like michael jackson did
1: barcelona graffiti
1: running around like a chicken with its head cut off
1: powerpoint for jury trials
1: iron chef is evil
You people are wierd, wierd ones.
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