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Briefly Noted from September 1999

• Ubiquity in depth

  Examining the interface of "Quicksilver for the browser"

  Aug 27 2008 at 1:01 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, User Interface

• Mad Men Twittering

  Fan-created Twitter accounts were shutdown until AMC realized the accounts actually was great advertising

  Aug 27 2008 at 12:14 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Web Culture

• DIY Bumbershoot schedule

  The Stranger has a simple and clever schedule maker for Seattle's annual music & arts fest

  Aug 27 2008 at 12:14 PM EDT

  Topic: Seattle

• jParallax

  Impressive jQuery plugin for creating a dynamic parallax effect

  Aug 26 2008 at 4:25 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, JavaScript

• Fostering creativity

  Pixar founder writes an insightful (and long) article on Pixar's secret sauce

  Aug 26 2008 at 11:08 AM EDT

  Topics: Work, Movies

• Bullets over Osssington

  My old 'hood (and new hipster central) was the location of a four-car gun battle

  Aug 23 2008 at 4:31 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Dube leaves CBC for ABC News

  CBC may have been a farm team for Jonathan Dube as he returns to ABC as a Vice President of its new site

  Aug 19 2008 at 4:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Canada

• Experimental rounded corners

  Based on Snook's example, rounded corners with VML, CSS or SVG

  Aug 19 2008 at 12:41 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, HTML

• EveryBlock in eight cities

  The hyper-local site is now covering Seattle (and Boston and Washington D.C.)

  Aug 18 2008 at 4:34 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle

• The Better Way

  TTC's new site has competition from a site build by some people who attended TransitCamp

  Aug 13 2008 at 11:10 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Web Design

• How to cover breaking news

  Good analysis of how Toronto's media online covered an explosive news story

  Aug 12 2008 at 1:39 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto

• 08/08/08

  The crazy 8s

  Aug 8 2008 at 5:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Culture

• jMetronome

  A script that helps a page maintain its typographic rhythm

  Aug 7 2008 at 1:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, JavaScript

• Flick navigation on the iPhone

  Some very simple CSS can create the flick navigation in Safari on the iPhone

  Aug 7 2008 at 1:12 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Telephone/VoIP

• Creating great search results

  Advice on making a search result do what it needs to do

  Aug 5 2008 at 11:12 AM EDT

  Topic: Usability

• Box office for 2008 visualized

  Similar chart as seen in NYTimes infographic, but this is interactive and in HTML

  Aug 4 2008 at 12:50 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Implementing canvas

  There looks to be a simple way to get the CANVAS element to work on Internet Explorer allowing for a lot more interesting design effects

  Aug 4 2008 at 11:15 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, HTML

• iPhone events

  Not, not the marketing kind, the JavaScript kind

  Jul 31 2008 at 8:21 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Telephone/VoIP

• The new "delicious"

  Delicious has dropped its Web 2.0 spelling and has under went a radical makeover

  Jul 31 2008 at 2:55 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Culture

• How to Show Telephone Numbers On Letterheads

  Ladislav Sutnar's 1960 booklet demonstrating letterhead design

  Jul 31 2008 at 1:00 PM EDT

  Topics: Telephone/VoIP, Web Design

• Canadianizing film posters

  Some very clever cultural plays in the Canadian Film Festival posters

  Jul 30 2008 at 1:43 PM EDT

  Topics: Movies, Canada

• Buid your own font

  FontShop's Web-based tool allows you to build simple, modular fonts quickly online

  Jul 30 2008 at 1:26 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• The 2008 A List Apart survey

  Work the Web in someway? Take A List Apart's Web industry survey and help create a clearer picture of the industry

  Jul 29 2008 at 12:24 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Culture

• Terry Fox

  Had he lived, the man who inspired Canada with his Marathon of Hope would have been 50 years old today.

  Jul 28 2008 at 4:51 PM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• CBC.ca does Chinese

  And Fake Ouimet (a.k.a., Joe Clark) hit his stride

  Jul 25 2008 at 4:11 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Canada

• Recovering the bikes

  Remarkable photo essay detailing the recovery of hundreds of presumed stolen bikes

  Jul 24 2008 at 1:10 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Tracking the real homicide rates

  Are there more murders in Toronto than in past years?

  Jul 24 2008 at 1:10 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Movie domain names

  Being both an Internet and a movie geek lets you create a entertaining review site

  Jul 23 2008 at 1:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Movies, Web Technology

• 49:00

  Only Amazon would sell Paul Westerberg's latest album for 49 cents

  Jul 22 2008 at 9:47 AM EDT

  Topic: Music

• Pop art then and now

  An overview of pop art in its classic and modern forms

  Jul 21 2008 at 2:32 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Culture