This may be yesterday's news to some of you, but sIFR, which i just started playing around with today, has to be the coolest web design trick i've seen in a long time.

Snap Links is a firefox addon that lets you right-click and drag a box across a web page. any links inside that box get opened in new tabs. it's smart too - for example: on google, it won't open sub-links like the link to the cached version or the related pages link.

i give it about 10 minutes and i won't be able to live without it.

Five years after i bought it, i find myself taking Information Architecture for the Worldwide Web off my bookshelf and reading it with the intent of actually practicing some IA. weird. I had basically written IA (and all web-related design work) out of my career aspirations about a year into my old job, and here I am picking it up again.

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yesterday we kicked back early and took a "work meeting" at the charleston, where the first 3 rounds were on our title sponsor for bike the drive. Someone came up with the bright idea of ordering fat tire ale, since each round would effectively be 2 rounds. As a result, i ended up at home and drunk at 6:00. I promptly fell asleep, and woke up at ( Read more... )

matt, jen, and i drove up to madison to see yo la tengo on saturday. madison's still really pretty and has all sorts of cool things going on. yo la tengo was, of course, the best ever. they always are. matt yelled out a request and they granted it. the barrymore is a nicer place to see a band play than the vic ( Read more... )

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whoa. daft punk at lollapalooza this year.

$195 tickets.

maybe i can work the CBF bike valet?

why can't CSS just work the same in firefox and IE?

.. has been recommending "hooper," a mid-80s burt reynolds stuntman action-comedy, as my #1 recommendation for the past week and a half. how do they know me so well?

clearly this is because i rented marie antoinette.