A little late today, but the unbroken run of success (first, second, third, fourth) continues with another selection of things weird, wonderful, and/or wise to peruse in the interwebs:
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- N-1 Experimental Research - a wall with over 100 clocks, set to different times; every twelve hours, the hands form an arrangement that spells out the artist's message.
- 300&65 Ampersands - an ampersand from a different typeface for every day of 2010 (hover the mouse pointer over the ampersand for a tooltip telling you the name of the face).
- Leonardo da Vinci's CV - "I will make covered chariots, safe and unattackable, which, entering among the enemy with their artillery, there is no body of men so great but they would break them. Plenty cheapness!"
- Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell to Make Us Miserable - "Either printer ink is made from unicorn blood or we're all getting screwed." There are lots of other great comics over at The Oatmeal - don't miss "Five Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth."
- The top 5 dumbest things Web developers do today - great list from Chris Jason.
- Equal Height Columns in CSS - with the absolute minimum of superfluous markup and one little tweak to get IE6 into line, it works. It can even be used in a subsection of a page rather than for the primary page layout, and doing so made one client of mine very happy.
- Jan. 1984: How critics reviewed the Mac - "Anybody who could write a good application on a 128K Mac deserves a medal" - Bill Gates. When you're reading reviews of the iPad, you might want to bear these quotes in mind.
- Why specs matter - "Most developers are morons, and the rest are assholes." Mark Pilgrim hits the nail on the head, as usual.
- Big Spanish Castle - a very neat optical illusion. (You need JS enabled for the image rollover.)
- The Crackpot Index - "A simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics... 10 points for pointing out that you have gone to school, as if this were evidence of sanity."
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