What is up? Change. And not so much.

In the past seven months I have adopted a cat, purchased a house, switched jobs, lost a marriage, gone skydiving for the first time, gained a roommate, purchased a car, and led an initiative to overhaul my employer's CMS -- in that order.

I'm starting to …

Grassroots Obama Video

Check out this original, grassroots-made music video supporting Barack Obama. The level of effort put into the design and video production is enviable, not to mention the message and impact of the video being incredible. Just... Wow.

Set a Guinness World Record

Celebrate Download Day 2008, and help set a Guiness World Record by getting Firefox 3 on the day it drops.

As Firefox 3 nears completion, it's shaping up to be leaner, faster, and more usable. The world's best open source browser is maturing, and as part of …

I Need A Hero...

I'm holding out for at hero 'till the end of the night / He's gotta be strong / And he's gotta be fast / And he's gotta be fresh from the fight

Ok, I know that's over the top, but I'd like to introduce you to Silas Dilworth's new "Heroic Condensed". If you're …

Change For Sale

The Obama Store has released 4500 / 5000 of Shepherd Fairey's "CHANGE" poster. Get 'em while they're still around.

All purchases made on the Artist for Obama Gallery are 100% contributions to the campaign and count toward your overall contribution limit of …

Evolution of Dance by Optimus Prime

I wasn't going to post any more videos in the main content of my site, post-redesign, but this is creative enough to warrant it

Some exceptional stop motion animation going on here...

Our Deepest Fear...

This weekend, the wife and I watched Coach Carter. I'm not prone to watching those sappy, based-on-a-true-story, inspirational movies, but it was decent enough...

As trite as that theme has become, I think it's important that people, especially the younger …

Conditional CSS Comments

If you haven't met previously, let me introduce you two...

Maybe you've been designing websites for a month. Or maybe you've been at it for years. You've been using CSS for presentational markup with HTML, and you know how reliably pages tend to display when …

Still a Little Dusty...

So my site is finally shaping up and looking a bit snazzier in the darker corners. I've been fooling with this redesign in bits and pieces since July, so it's a relief and a morale booster to finally have a solid, working, layout, and somewhat clean …

Firefox Code Glitch

I have a riddle for you if you have the time.

Last week I found that my site was suddenly behaving differently in Firefox. Up until this point, it looked pretty much the same as Safari. But suddenly every piece of text had inexplicably become bold, and the …

Pardon the Dust...

Obviously, some things have changed around here... I've been redesigning my site since the end of July and it's just damn time for the thing to be up. I need incentive to get it done. So, please excuse the mess.

Yes, you will see some behind the scenes …

The Design View Show

Andy Rutledge gives us a design podcast that has been sorely needed. Well spoken, relevant, and on-topic, it's something designers old and new alike can sink their teeth into. It doesn't hurt that Andy's spoken voice is as refined and clear as his written …

Safari FTW... Or WTF?!?

A call to arms:
OK, so it's not the noblest cause, but why is Safari still the bastard child of browsers in terms of web app support? WebKit is indeed superior in terms of standards compliance than most other browsers and it's now available on Windows, and of …

Pixelmator

Yesterday, brothers Saulius and Aidas Dailide released Pixelmator 1.0 for public consumption. Lucky for us, they were nice enough to provide a downloadable trial demo (which can be unlocked with a serial for more permanent use). It has been said that image …

Future Steve Jobs

Gruber:

For example, at last month's iMacs/iLife/iWork special event, Jobs several times alluded to Apple having released the first version of iLife "a long time ago". It was actually just four and a half years ago, but I think in Jobs's mind, even 2003 is …

Bioshocked...

Or Not So Much... Depending on how you look at it.

Here's my review of BioShock. I know, I know, late to the game (no pun intended), but the wife wasn't digging me buying a $50 or $60 game. And I'm glad I played whipped and didn't blow that money (which …

Gruber's Challenge

What do we call iPhone-optimized sites now?

iSites? IPOS? I know -- jeebusSites!

Flight of the Conchords - Frodo

One of my favorite, quasi-new shows is Flight of the Conchords (FotC). It's on HBO, so if you haven't heard of it, that's probably why.

A synopsis: FotC is a situational comedy revolving around the misguided attempts of two naive and oft idiotic …

Mac Vs PC... The Song

Pownce Invites Available (2)

I have four (4) two (2) Pownce.com invites available if anyone wants them. I know there are some lurkers out there who might. Just use my contact page to send me a request or leave a comment with your email address. Either way, I'll try to get it to you ASAP.