17 Jul 2008

Mid-July Link Dump

BgPatterns

Create tileable background images.

SWF searchability FAQ

I’m sceptical about how this’ll work in practice, as the content will lack the kind of structure supplied by half-decent HTML and the spidering may uncover lots of diverse data to associate with a single URL. Will users want to click from search results into a Flash file that might contain what they’re looking for somewhere deep within its interface?

blogshank

Interesting to see the gradual evolution from sketchbook to comic strip when going through the archives.

Thsrs

Reading Ironic Sans regularly makes me feel inferior as both a blogger and someone who has daft ideas.

Paamayim Nekudotayim

I’d not heard of this bit of PHP trivia before.

Show Us a Better Way

It seems the people behind this have the best of intentions, but it’s ludicrous to be asking for ideas for what to build. Give us the data in clear and simple formats, with minimal strings attached, and we’ll build things ourselves.

The Brown Corporation

Well, it’s certainly the bluntest approach to marketing a product that I’ve seen recently.

DEFENDER of the favicon

Arcade classic Defender. In a favicon.

Fonts available for @font-face embedding

A depressingly short list at the moment.