Archive for February, 2007
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Google’s homepage was today displaying a Valentine’s Day themed logo, unfortunately missing the “L” in Google. “Googe”? Now that sounds nasty…
People on reddit, digg and various blogs have discussed it. It was posted to flickr. Yet noone seemed to get the hint.
Well, at least some should have heard of Barnabe Googe, an English poet of the 16th century. He is famous especially for his line “I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die”.
Others might know the Irish-British rock band “My Bloody Valentine”, which might be a more direct reference since their lineup also included bassist Debbie Googe in their early days.
So no, Google did not drop the “L”.
Tags: brandname, design, googe, google, online, valentine
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
Eric Meyer asks what you consider to be some of the most important events in the history of CSS and web design. How about some of the most overlooked events in that same history? Do tell!
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
The winning photo of the 50th annual World Press Photo Contest of 2006 has been submitted by US photographer Spencer Platt of Getty Images. It shows a group of young Lebanese girls driving through a neighborhood in South Beirut, devastated by Israeli bombings. The picture was taken on 15 August 2006, the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah when thousands of Lebanese started returning to their homes.
“It’s a picture you can keep looking at. It has the complexity and contradiction of real life, amidst chaos. This photograph makes you look beyond the obvious.”, says jury chair Michele McNally about the image.
Tags: 2006, award, cities, events, photography, worldpressphoto
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007
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Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Tingelets is a new, free and practical service for designers and developers. Basically it’s a set of bookmarklets that you can place in your browsers bookmark bar for immediate use. When you click on them, they highlight various elements in the current page. You can highlight tags, elements by id, elements by class and even tag sets (for example <ul> and <li> as a combination). Since they work in almost every web browser, they give you the possibility to compare web layouts on the fly.
The Tingelets are the newest project from Maurice Kühlborn and they are extremely well done. When you click on a tingelet, the corresponding element or elements are highlighted with transparent PNGs which display the name of the highlighted element.
It’s a perfect and quick solution for troubleshooting and diagnostics without having to resort to external tools like Xyle Scope.
Tags: bookmarklet, browser, css, design, free, html, online, service, tingelets, tools, troubleshooting, webdesign, xhtml
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
aetherworld.org is now a proud member of Design-Feed. Design-Feed is an online aggregator site for the most interesting design related RSS feeds on the web. What sets apart Design-Feed from other aggregator sites are the hand picked feeds. This means you can get all the latest, and best, graphics and web design news in one place, rather than browsing through hundreds of sites every day. Every post aggregated is also searchable by keyword.
“Basically, it’s a one-stop shop to get all the latest web-design buzz. If you are familiar with MXNA, you can think of this as MXNA for designers”, says Felix Turner, creator of Design-Feed.
Read up on Design-Feed here.
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