Acts of Volition

While recently ranting about the office in my usual manner, I conceived of a scheme to write a series of one-phrase letters to the editor of our local paper. The purpose was vague, but the results would be hilarious. If only I had the attention span top follow through on such schemes.  •  A friend …

Google has a new favicon. If you don’t know what a favicon is, rather than explain it, I’ll suggest that you probably won’t care about the rest of this post.  •  If you’re still with me, the new favicon is notable because the old one was a small but ubiquitous sign-post on the web. What I find …

Jason Kottke has released his pixel-font, Silkscreen, under the Open Font License. This means it can be included in most open-source software distributions by default.  •  Thanks, Jason.

If you spend a significant amount of time working with any type of scripting, code, or markup, then you’re probably looking at a monospace (fixed-width for each character) font.  •  The quality of these fonts varies, though the defaults that ship with Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista are …

The web-based version of Solitaire at WorldOfSolitaire.com is as smooth and playable as the version included in Windows or Gnome by default. This is the end of desktop software - Solitaire was the final frontier.  •  Note that it is not built with Flash, but Javascript, CSS, HTML, via YUI.

We're looking for a new designer to join our team over at silverorange. We aren't necessarily looking for someone with years of experience and an enormous portfolio. If you've got the spark and are able to learn as you go (and can work in Charlottetown, PEI), let us know. Be sure to read the full …

We’re looking for a system administrator to join us at silverorange. Dan, our CEO, explains the position:  •  “  •  silverorange is hiring once again. This time around we’re looking for someone who has an interest in managing the systems behind the web systems we build. You’ll be in charge of …

Brendan Eich, the Canada-loving technical leader of the Mozilla project, has written a piece on The Open Web and Its Adversaries and given a presentation on The Open Web. In addition to a general overview of what it means to have an open web, the post mentions work that Opera and Mozilla are doing …

The new like-myspace-but-more-hip website Virb has a feature worth noting. Like many sites where you can create a page about yourself, you can do all kinds of visual customization to your page. On the same place (notably) on each page, though, there is a “remove customization” link. Clicking this …