August 2005 Archives

• 23 Aug 2005

  The Occidental Divide

  Asians and North Americans see the world differently according to findings reported on Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. From Yahoo! News:The researchers, led by Hannah-Faye Chua and Richard Nisbett, tracked the eye movements of the...

• 22 Aug 2005

  Good Behaviour

  Here's a way to use AJAX to keep things clean. Your javascript markup, that is. Behaviour uses CSS selectors to keep your markup tidy and readable. Definitely earns a good housekeeping seal of approval!...

• 22 Aug 2005

  Let go my Lego!

  Brickfest 2005 drew Lego fanatics worldwide to show off their brick-laying skills. Personally, none of them are as good as my all-time favorite, Abston Church of Christ....

• 21 Aug 2005

  Flippin' Mattress

  A recent piece on the mathematics of flipping your mattress on American Scientist Online made me think of bed simplification. I not only make my bed every morning, I also flip/turn my mattress seasonally. And I do this by design....

• 21 Aug 2005

  Simplified News

  Imagine your favorite newsstand. In Manhattan, there are quite a few of them, often crammed in those interstitial niches between skyscrapers, their narrowness just perfect for aisles of news racks. I love pawing through the magazines, particularly enamored with the...

• 21 Aug 2005

  RSS Continues to Befuddle

  Think New York blog readers are tech savvy? Well, apparently not when it comes to RSS. Only 11% of blog readers use RSS to monitor stories, according to a recent article from Editor and Publisher:New York Blog readers, thought of...

• 19 Aug 2005

  Websites Designed for Boys?

  According to this study conducted by the University of Glamorgan, most websites are designed to appeal more to men regardless of the site's target audience. 94% of the sites displayed a masculine orientation with just 2% displaying a typically female...

• 6 Aug 2005

  Use as directed!

  Append the exclamation mark to anything and it metamorphoses the banal and lifeless into something that bounces with zeal and passion. Take a look at Yahoo! and tompeters! as examples. And, then there's the interrobang: how the superimposition of the...

• 2 Aug 2005

  Minimalist Billboard

  Sounds like an oxymoron, I know, but I did stumble upon a billboard ad with a witty concept and minimalist execution. Winner of the Cannes Lions Live Bronze award for outdoor advertising, this billboard for a suntan lotion was meticulously...