Here’s a few interesting things I’ve seen or heard on the net recently.

Want to edit your photographs but don’t have Photoshop? Then use the online image editor at Pixlr. It’s relatively simple to use.

Live camera from the LHC collider in France.

Games:

Coign Of Vantage. Rotate the screen using your mouse to find the hidden image.

Totem Destroyer. Perfect blend of skill and luck. I managed to do all 25!

Split Words. Match the correct parts of words together. This is much harder than it first seems.

Music:

The Re:Publikan Podcast. Download mixes by AtJazz, Mark Farina etc..

Dixon presents Inner City 2005 – 2008

Here’s a few things I’ve been looking at during our dreary summer.

20 Abandoned Cities and Towns at Web Urbanist.

Minimal Techno actually invented in late 60’s shock! Hear the lost tapes of Delia Derbyshire the BBC electric music pioneer.

The timeline of internet memes. From this chart I think I was first getting into the internet in 1998.

Superb interview podcast with Charles Webster. Some great songs there along with a discussion about his new compilation CD on NRK Records.

Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians. Does as it says on the tin.

Check out the latest celebrity armpit flaps at flappits.com. You must be pretty deranged to think of that one.

An interview with Ken Buckle, mobile disc jockey in Enfield. His words of wisdom include, “You can have women asking for Abba week after week, then next time you think, ‘There’s a load of women here, I’ll give it the old “Dancing Queen”,’ but nothing happens. There’s no guarantee in this game. It’s like fishing.”

Interview with Chris Rock, from The Guardian. On Hillary Clinton:
“I think America is ready for a woman president. But does it have to be that one?”

And originally from the geniuses at Poisoned Mind, here is how I spend most of my day:

As I can’t see a resource anywhere online here is a list for the conversion of pixels into ems for the font-size property:

9px = 0.5625em
10px = 0.625em
11px = 0.6875em
12px = 0.75em
13px = 0.8125em
14px = 0.875em
15px = 0.9375em
16px = 1.00em
18px = 1.125em
20px = 1.25em
24px = 1.50em
28px = 1.75em
32px = 2.00em

I would apply a font size of 100.01% to the body element at the begining of your css stylesheet to make the above values work, like so:

body {
font-size:100.01%;
}

The reasons for this strange value is due to IE’s extreme font resizing bug. More explanation can be found here. The default font size would then be 16px.

It’s a waste of css to apply a font-size to every element on your webpage so try to apply font sizes only when necessary. For example, this webpage has only two sizes of fonts and it’s all in the arial font. You could achieve this with only a minimal amount of CSS:

body {
font-size: 100.01%;
font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #333333;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

a {
color: blue;
}

a:hover {
color: red;
}

h2 {
font-size: 1.75em;
font-weight: normal;
}

p {
font-size: 0.6875em;
}

That could be all the CSS you need for the whole site.

For those that use HTML in their life, why not test your memory:

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Oh, and take a look at this amazing Depth Of Field site, all done with Flash.

Long interview with Adam Curtis about the future of UK TV.

God, so much work and other stuff going on in my life. Here’s a round of some bits and peices.

The ecommerce project I have been working on all summer has finally launched. Baby Star are a New Zealand company that have two shops selling baby clothing and accessories. My partner on this project, designer James Morse, and me have been turning the ugly OSCommerce product into something that’s actually quite lovely. And we’ve stripped out the tables and made it all with CSS positioning. No mean feat when it’s your first experience with ecommerce.

I’ve also been working on a much smaller website for Waters Hair Stylists in Brighton, a local hair salon. I created a simple, clean design, creating a professional and relaxing feel. Also we have plans to add many more pages, such as products and tanning solutions, so I have built this flexibility into the site. Using CSS for all styles and positioning speeds up any future site development.

Also:

Charlie Brooker feels the same as me about spiders. I’m glad they’ve nearly all gone now.

The last day of shootong on The Wire. This is a spoiler free article from The Washington Post about feelings during the final day’s shoot on ‘the best TV series ever’.

The 20 most bizarre experiments of all time.

John Cusack interviews Naomi Klein. Video discussing her new book, The Shock Doctrine.

Hexiom. The game. I’m stuck on level 28.

My new Uniqlock Casio watch arrived today and very lovely and red it is too. By the end of the Uniqlock campaign there will probably be over 20,000 people enter this competition and I’m the fifth winner (out of 60), woo!!

You can check all the worldwide competition stats at a special section of their website.

Just seeing if this works:

From Uniqlock