Robert Hodgins (aka. flight404) is posting some Processing source code to help less talented sketchers (read: pretty much everyone). Go learn from the best.

Should make for a nice addition to your mapping toolbox.

Be patient - takes a few moments to load.

Cabel Sasser has released a very slick image zooming library. Similar to Lightbox, but sexier :-)

If you aren’t familar with Dean Edward’s IE7 project, you should definitely check it out. It’s a Javascript library that can be dropped in unobtrusively and makes most of IE6’s quirks go away. Use PNGs with alpha transparency, CSS selectors like adjacency and parent/child, :first-child, :last-child, :before, :after, as well as positioning fixes and min/max-height attributes.

I just noticed that he recently put out a major update to the project. It’s smaller, faster, and is hosted on Google Code. You can even include the JS file directly from Google. For more info, see the version 2.0 page.

This is somehow incredibly beautiful.

I watched the first couple of these Lost “Missing Pieces” videos a while back, but found them pretty lame. Until this one that is.

Although it sounds like a postmortem, Khoi Vinh has an interesting post about good design not being enough to help Yahoo. You can’t pick up a current business magazine these days without a couple of major pieces on the importance of solid design visionaries and practices (with which I’m usually in agreement with). With Yahoo’s mostly superior attention to design, why are they unable to gain ground on Google? Is it just that Google lept so far ahead of the pack that no amount of magic would help?

Maybe this is common knowledge, but I just came across this tip this week. You can get rid of those annoying dotted borders around links in Firefox…

… just by adding this rule to your stylesheet:

a:focus, a:active {
    outline: none;
}

I’m guilty of being overly antsy with tracking my UPS and FedEx packages, but this might be a bit much. Via SlipperyBrick.