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Chris Coyier at CSS Tricks has put together a great post which outlines exactly how to use floats.  I wish that I had been able to read this when I first started out!

I was looking for the original music video. But then…

I found this. Better, no?

Awwwwww. That warms the cockles, doesn’t it?

Save the Developers offers a non-obtrusive, non-partisan, gentle reminder for all your visitors browsing with IE6. I am going to implement this tonight on my own site!

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David Bowie picked his 12 favorite Bowie songs for a giveaway by the Daily Mail. (Yet another reason I wish I lived in the UK-all the free stuff they give away with magazines!) Anyway, check out the article, it’s pretty interesting. Below is a quote describing one of his song-writing techniques.

Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing, which I wrote using William Burroughs’s cut-up method.

You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix ‘em up and reconnect them.

You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections.

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And just for kicks…

I forgot the name of the Typetester website and was searching around for it today. It is a very useful resource!

This piece was created for an informal backyard barbecue celebration.

So, I’m reading this article about fonts in the NYT, and it seems pretty standard, a lot like the article Slate posted a few weeks ago about fonts, when, at the very bottom is this quote…

Fonts can shape reality in intangible ways, as Phil Renaud, a graphic designer from Phoenix, discovered when he studied the relationship between his grades and the fonts he used for his college papers. Papers set in Georgia, a less common font with serifs, generally received A’s while those rendered in Times Roman averaged B’s.

which I found very interesting. I was a Palatino Linotype girl myself.