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I’ve ordered from them a few time and have been beyond delighted with their selection, shipping, return policy, and customer service, but this goes beyond awesome.
via the Czelt

Some people think Matt Lauer’s hot shizz, I guess this lady thought that airing her pudenda for him would win him forever. Instead, he appears to be be giving her a slow clap. No, actually, she got yelled at by the Dress Code Police of Southwest Airlines and almost kicked off of her flight. If it were thirty years ago, they’d have hired her on the spot. Oooh, I want those boots. Remember what it was like? When Southwest Airlines didn’t have hostesses in hot pants? Remember?

If only it sings when you squeeze it… regardless; mine mine mine! They have ninja and viking kittens, too.
via DaddyTypes

Maybe she needs a MySpace page.

Hollow out a boom box, make it a backpack.

Nice short web spot from Europe about blood donation.
via adverblog

When I launch my mommy-bar empire, the first three locations will be named Yoga, The Garden Center, and Day Care.

13 legends of color

HTML entity character lookup and Character Pal.

The Muffler Man wants to say hello to you.

I found a nicely decaying Muffler Man outside of Oshkosh. Terrifying, and awesome.

A nice collection of John Cleese ads for Compaq. Computers Often Make People Quite Angry!
via Mefi

A Chinese court has jailed two officials after they let a blind contractor build a bridge which collapsed during construction and injured 12 people, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday…. “After the blind contractor changed the blueprint, he carried out the work only using a roughly drawn draft of the plan, which caused the bridge to collapse,” the report said. Xinhua did not explain how the contractor was able to run the project considering his inability to see.

Via Tha Bryzzzah

live every week like it’s shark week
by Wesley Willis

You are my special working hard bish.
You are the best in the long run.
You really whoop a snow leopard’s ass.
You really whoop a snow leopard’s ass.

LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!

Every week that’s like shark week is very special to me.
Shoutlet is the best in the long run.
I like you a lot in the long run.
You really whoop Saddam Hussein’s ass.

LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!

You can really rock your ass off.
I like you well.
You really whoop a llama’s ass.
You can really rock it out.

Rock over London,
Rock on Chicago.

Shoutlet – we build excitement.

How can I learn to recognise more languages?

WTF is up with PERL.

gorgeous TV spot for Levis
two nice print ads for Katia yarn

I ordered these shoes yesterday at 11:30 in the morning, and they were here by this morning at 11am. That’s like, no way!! fast!

(The shoes look better in reality than in my phonecam, see here and here.)

If you answered 1988, you are correct!

Dear Children,

If you can shop for it at Hot Topic, it’s not “underground.” You just gave your money to The Man.

Who is me.
Ha ha!

Signed,
The Grown-Ups

PS: I blogged this from my phone which was paid for by designing ads targeted at you. Double Ha ha!

*in reaction to this news report about the horrors of goth and emo for the kids, in which all involved need a remedial John Hughes movie marathon, including the reporter who looks like she’s about seventeen; via CzelticGirl

Bryan found this neat little php file that you dump into the images directory of a web site and it gives you an index page with a table of thumbnails, complete with file type, size, and date added. Totally handy!

Nifty! Not only is IE7′s File/Edit/View/Etc. menu in a really stupid place below the toolbar*, the Edit menu doesn’t work. If you select a URL from the address bar and then try to copy it from the Edit menu, it loses focus on the address and you can’t copy it. Paste is similarly fucked up. The right-click contextual menu works, so why not this? Click to watch:

You’ll notice that I took this movie on my Mac through Remote Desktop. I tried the copy/paste maneuvering directly on the Windows (XP) box, with the same results. I also tried it in Internet Explorers 5-6 and it worked just fine.

Geeks Are Sexy posted a registry hack to move the File/Edit/View/Etc. menu back to the top. I did this and it worked, in terms of moving the menu bar back to where it belongs, but it didn’t fix the copy/paste issue. Swell!

*”Reload” and “stop” are in the extra-stupid place of after the address bar, and no, they can’t be rearranged.

One of the Big Things on my to-do list this spring is to learn Javascript like a badass. There’s a lot of references out there on the web, and a lot of books… but there’s a lot of really shitty references and a lot of shitty books, and I don’t even really know enough to know the difference yet. My HTML and CSS is tight and poetic (and constantly improving), and I want to make sure that my Javascript is just as awesome. On my shelf waiting for me I’ve got Javascript, the Definitive Guide, and Christian Heilmann’s Beginning Javascript with DOM Scripting and AJAX.

I’m looking forward to digging into those, and this
DOMAss – The DOM Assistant library looks useful as well.
via 456 Berea Street

<object width="425" height="350">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gx-NLPH8JeM"></param>
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gx-NLPH8JeM"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
wmode="transparent"
width="425" height="350">
</embed>
</object>

Really?! Aw, come on. Thanks for fucking up my perfectly gorgeous and really carefully-written code* whenever a visitor posts a video in a profile or blog comment. Even without addressing bullshit Eolas patent problems and various workarounds, what’s so hard about dishing up the Flash satay that’s been on the menu for oh, five years now? Google video does the same. Feh.

It probably wouldn’t be too tricky to write a little thing for Rails that would automatically rewrite that crap into something prettier. Dave? Bryan? Help a girl out…

* not on this site, a community with non-web-geek users

• Smashing Magazine’s collection
• Essential Bookmarks for Web Developers
• link thumbnail
• annotating images
• styling input type="file"
• web design inspiration on Flickr
• HTML/CSS boxes and arrows

Fabric patterns from public transit.

Eyeglasses Stores are for Suckers: Amen. When I got new glasses this year, it was because my five-year-old frames were getting ugly and boring, not because I couldn’t see. When I got the glasses with the new prescription, everything was so fun-house distorted that I couldn’t wear them even after the “getting used to them” period. Since LensCrafters has a 90-day guarantee, I took them back, someone else wrote me a different scrip, and I waited another two weeks for them to be ready. The new new ones? Still fucked up. Six weeks, four visits, and five hundred dollars later, I had new frames with my five-year-old prescription in them and I can see just fine. They even had the gall to say that when you “get older” you have a lower tolerance for adjusting to new glasses! Now that I’ve got the actual scrip numbers (most places I’ve been to in the past wouldn’t give it to me so that I’d have to return to them for new glasses – even though that’s against the law), when I next need contacts or glasses, I’m hitting the internet.

We’ve been so busy that I haven’t followed the Internet Explorer 7 betas; from what I was seeing, there were enough changes between each even after they said that all of the layout/rendering development was frozen that it wasn’t worth chasing. Now that it’s out, and being pushed to a good share of Windows users, I spent the morning setting up our testing boat anchor laptop (WinXP/SP2) with IE7, the ability to handle multiple versions of Internet Explorer, and older versions of said devil.

While I first thought that running a virtual machine would be the only solution, it’s pretty crazy to have to do that (and pay for a whole other XP license and whatever extra RAM you need) just to test your web sites in crappy old browsers. I have to say HOOOORAY to Yousif Al Saif for putting together Multiple_IE: a bundle of standalone versions of IE that don’t interfere with each other. Installation was fast and it works great.

When the mere presence of the bell is not enough.

Looking through all of these, I had a nasty flashback to usability testing. It’s easy to imagine the four-hour, five+ people meeting that would ensue–mostly entirely a discussion of why the labels should read “push button” instead of “ring bell,” since really, there is no bell present and the user is not directly ringing anything. At the two-hour mark, the group would seem to be in agreement that the labels should read “push button to ring bell” because “push button” would be too ambiguous to the user as to the results of such pushing, and would therefore cause the user discomfort, possibly resulting in the user never pushing the button because they were afraid of what might happen. After four hours, everyone would be in agreement–until, inevitably, someone points out that the bell is neither now nor ever visible to the user, so that “push button to ring bell” would be equally distressing to the user because they would never know exactly what bell they were ringing if they pushed the button. At that point, the web designer rips the bubbler off of the wall, heaves it through the window, and runs. [Scene.]