I don’t like it when links automatically open in new windows or tabs. I want to be able to control where I load a URL and prefer CTRL-clicking or middle-clicking instead. But when I keep switching tabs and windows and then return to the URLs I opened in the background, I forget why I opened them or what led me to them in the first place. Maybe I need to […]
Realization: parents stalking you online and showing relatives what they’ve found is the modern equivalent of sharing embarrassing baby pictures and anecdotes. Hi Daddy.
Sometimes art isn’t just an imitation of life, but a phenomenon that blurs the lines between fiction and fact, the humane and unjust, creating a whole new reality unto itself. Information for Foreigners is quite indescribable in that regard. It’s not entertainment (it’s not enjoyable at all, really). It’s not performance art for the sake of art (“Why scream? Why pretend? When no one can really open his mouth, why […]
Get transported to El Dorado, Atlantis, and the Moon with Lost World’s Fairs, a site that pushes the limits of the web browser’s typographic capabilities and celebrates the release if IE 9 beta. (Stories from its creators here: Naz Hamid, Frank Chimero, Jason Santa Maria, Trent Walton) @font-face embedding has been around since CSS version 2, but not the browser support for file formats other than .eot (Embedded Open Type). […]
Google celebrated Chrome’s 2nd birthday with some lovely illustrations from Mike Lemanski and Jack Hudson. High-res versions linked to in this post.
Seoul was hot and rainy like the Philippines, but that’s where the similarities end. You will feel the the modernity and the affluence of a first world country. You will wonder how its residents keep their skin so white despite the scorching sun and having no qualms about walking up, down, everywhere. You will wish you understood Korean (thank goodness for calculators and electronic dictionaries).
Infographics is the new black these days. I keep saying that images are still the most portable means of sharing information on the web, and visualizations fall into this behavior. Memes too, of course, with The Oatmeal straddling both sides. And then there’s Nonsensical Infographics, which throws the purpose of infographics out of the window. “The science of infographics is an interesting beast. Infographics’ level of success is always based […]
Update (09/15/10): The New Philippines Free press is up. Update (07/26/10): gov.ph now runs WordPress, but per technogra.ph, it returns a lot of missing pages and database error messages. Here’s a thought: news sites should take a page out of the Philippines Free Press and use WordPress themes instead. I’m not entirely serious here, because it’s yet another example of how pathetic Philippine websites are, from the highest office in […]
There’s something I noticed with the Philippine online marketing industry that’s ticking me off more and more (see, I give it a few strikes before I go on a full-blown rant now): a lot of them know diddly-squat about the basics of sending emails, and commit the following crimes:
Design × Code × Words for a better Web,
made in the Philippines by Sophia Lucero.