I really like the logo for F & C (winner of the Logo for Industrial Company). But my favorite? The logo for Watch & Clock, by Stanislav Topol’skiy (Ukraine). A brilliant logo.

1. The big square ad is bigger than the prime, central photo. And not much bigger, so you have two primary, central elements that compete for my initial focus.
2. Lots of little, disjointed links/nav along the top and side. Seems a bit confusing, and no rhyme or reasons to what’s where.
3. The differentation between the second level stories and the third level stories isn’t enough I feel.

Granted, these are all impressions formed within the first 5 minutes. But first impressions are very important.

• Create really cool new windows using prototype. You can then use script.aculo.us to have the sexy effects on the window. You must try the demos.
• 24ways really deserves it’s own post. It’s got 24 great tutorials/posts on how to do things. Things such as:
  • Swooshy Curly Quotes without Images is great for pullout quotes.
  • Improving Form accessibility with DOM Scripting.
  • An explanation of ems.
• Russ Weakley shows us how to create simple, accessible external links. He uses a class in this example, but I’ve seen the same thing done using a Regex parser to loop through all the links. But that’s probably a bit much.
• Tagcloud lets you create and manage clouds with content you are interested in, and lets you publish them on your own website.

Dave, not being one to leave well enough alone, wanted to “improve” on this idea by creating a function to simplify the assigning of these defaults.

A truly excellent article.

Sarah Holcomb was in both Caddyshack, as Maggie O’Hooligan, and in Animal House as Pinto’s Girlfriend (Clorette DePaso).

Why I didn’t know this years ago, I don’t know. But seriously, all Sarah needs is those two movies on her resume, and really, you’re good forever as an actor in my book.

I like the idea of hosting the links yourself. That’s why I keep my own link’s here, so I ‘own’ them. I could run stats on them, modify them, do whatever.

I wish this could suck in from Mag.no.lia as well. (I say that only because I’m using mag.no.lia more and more.

I’m defintely going to be installing this and testing it out. Very nice.

This makes me quite sad. The Andy Griffith Show is one of my more favored television shows. He was a big reason for that.

Prototype is an object oriented Javascript library, written by Sam Stephenson. Prototype makes Javascript like Ruby. It creates extensions to the core of Javascript.

Go through the examples, it’s defintely neat. One of the neater libraries out there I think.

The “Fast” guy grabs hold of me. I love him. I want a little Fast to have on my desk, or on my dashboard.

I didn’t realize that “Fast” was developed by the same people who did the Burger King remake. Crispin Porter + Bogusky is the name of the agency, and they are good.

If anyone knows where I could get my own Fast, please let me know.

Aliens3, Star Wars VII, VIII and IX and Snow Crash some of my particular favorites. Defintely worth checking out.

Oh, and he’s 100% right about Doom and Paul Verhoeven.