I was surprised to see the interesting line of specialty products Rust-Oleum offers. White board, and Magnetic paint to name a couple. They market it for kids, but I think it would make a great addition to a conference room or office space. Drawing your ideas while you work through them is be a great […]

Honestly, there is no easier way to have a nice interactive map on your site. Google has developed a YouTube-style embeddable url on your map searches. Simply copy and paste for a rich interactive map experience, no javascript required. Visit the Lat Long Blog for more information.

Thank you Olav Frihagen Bjørkøy. If you code web sites, be sure to try blueprintcss, a framework that gives you a jump start on perfecting your grid, typography and much more. Some kinks are still being worked out, but it is definitely usable for most of what you need. Check the wiki for known issues […]

Well, they should be. And IDEO should do it from what I see. Portfolio.com’s article on the terminal redesign and accompanying mock ups hit home for illustrating the value of information design, especially in the financial world. The quicker and more accurately you can read data, the better.

A beautiful collection of information and resources at Web Designer Wall. This will be a definite regular for me. I love the decorative color & paper-like visual effects. The most creative use of Wordpress I’ve seen so far IMO. Thanks to Nick La for the inspirational design. Be sure to check out his site & […]

Kind of an odd question, but believe it or not I do own a bowling shirt. It was a gift I got at a company I worked for a while back. The whole department came up with weird nicknames for each other, printed them on the shirts, and once a month go bowling wearing their […]

Tired of waiting for DNS to update before you can begin working on that web site at a shared server? It took me a while to track this down, but simply modifying your ‘hosts’ file(s) on your computer will enable your browser to point to the new server & resolve the address. (I had to […]

If you are brave enough to run V2.x of the API, Google’s released the ability to include driving directions. I played with it a little today and am once again surprised at how easy they have made it for me to look good using their tools. No bugs yet I might add, I’ll update this […]