Oddities & Diversions: October 2006

October 31, 2006

History of the Jack-o'-lantern

History of the Jack-o’-lantern

FEARnet launches

FEARnet, Comcast’s new Horror Video-on-Demand service (and accompanying website) fittingly launches on Halloween.

October 27, 2006

How to build Pacman and The Ghost halloween costumes

How to build Pacman and The Ghost halloween costumes, wot wot wot!

October 23, 2006

A List Apart: Issue 226

A List Apart: Issue 226, In this issue: the care and feeding of online communities; providing a print preview option that supports web standards and user expectations.

Things I Learned the Hard Way

Things I Learned the Hard Way, Female Folk Wisdom for Life, Love, Work and Play. Fantastic!

October 20, 2006

Philadelphia Art Museum selects Gehry to design gallery space

Philadelphia Art Museum selects Frank Gehry to design gallery space, woo hoo!

Mojo t-shirt!

Kevin finally starts making t-shirts. Go grab “Pillowfight”, the inaugural Mojo the Sockmonkey t-shirt today!

Fireside Chat: Dan Cederholm, Jason Santa Maria, Ryan Sims, and Greg Storey (Part 3 of 3)

Part 3 of 3 in our 37signals Fireside Chat!

October 17, 2006

number 9, number 9...

Shaun DINman redesign for the 9th time, and it is both subtle and beautifully restrained. No DIN, no pixely goodness, just stark typography and timely color shifting.

October 16, 2006

Fireside Chat: Dan Cederholm, Jason Santa Maria, Ryan Sims, and Greg Storey (Part 2 of 3)

Part 2 of 3 in our 37signals Fireside Chat, in which Greg takes off his shirt.

October 12, 2006

Fireside Chat: Dan Cederholm, Jason Santa Maria, Ryan Sims, and Greg Storey (Part 1 of 3)

Part 1 of 3 in a 37signals Fireside chat with me, Dan Cederholm, Ryan Sims, and Greg Storey. I guess we did talk for a long time…

October 11, 2006

Grind House trailer

Grind House, the trailer for Robert Rodríguez and Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 horror flick looks like loads of fun.

October 10, 2006

A List Apart: Issue 225

A List Apart: Issue 225, In this issue: a call for more user testing and a whole mess of resources for new web designers and developers.

October 4, 2006

Photoshop?

Brand New, Gruber rightly takes Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to task.

October 3, 2006

Veerle interviews Kevin Cornell

Veerle interviews Kevin Cornell, illustrator extraordinaire.

Free Font Manifesto

Free Font Manifesto, What if a few digital type foundries on earth gave away one good typeface as a gift to humanity? From Ellen Lupton.

October 2, 2006

Spooky Sock Monkeys

Kim has created a whole new crop of Spooky Sock Monkeys. If you like sock monkeys (and who doesn’t), go grab one of these today. They are one-of-a-kind and definitely won’t last long. I think Luzz is my favorite. Too late! He’s already gone!

October 1, 2006

Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, a simple and beautiful site for a Canadian gallery from Simone Abel.

Bookplates

Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie, lovely visuals from days gone by.