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Sidebar Workshops If web design and development events were like comic book super groups Sidebar would be the Fantastic Four. I’ll leave it to our intrepid readers to decide who’s who. 

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Senuti Free OS X app for copying your songs off an iPod or iPhone into your iTunes Library. Handy for recovering lost songs after a crash or converting your old G5 into a coffee table. 

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Replica “…designed on a very reduced and religiously strict grid which defined each and every design decision. In place of the 700 units for standard caps height in Fontlab, the grid was reduced to just 70 units. This arbitrary simplifaction and self-induced restriction strongly influences the shape of each individual glyph.” Gorgeous. 

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CSS Filters for Firefox, Safari and Opera Of particular interest are the Firefox and Opera filters, both of which seem to seat the text baseline oddly high at smaller font-sizes relative to line- and x-height. 

The Remnants Ze Frank in a pilot for what looks like The Office meets zombies (one of which was coincidentally named Stan). I would so watch this. 

Hello Old Friend Or “Specifying font-size with pixels no longer considered harmful.” Mint says IE 6 usage is down to less than 2% of visitors around these parts. 

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CSS Wishlist I can’t speak for the other interviewees but CHOCKLOCK was definitely off when I composed my response. I think all the shouting makes us come across more crotchety than any of us really were. (Turns out Chris just forgot a </CHOCKLOCK> somewhere in his markup—all better now.) 

Stephen M. Myers 1942-2008 As demanding as he was passionate, Stephen was one of my favorite professors at SCAD. So it goes. 

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Steal This Comic Sad but true XKCD commentary on the state of DRM. 

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PdaNet Turns your jailbroken iPhone into a wireless router. It doesn’t use a proxy so there’s no client app and any app can use the connection without additional configuration. (via tweet) 

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Oscar Wilde Retrospective Lovely typography. A few more shots on Design has No Name (click on “portfolio,” then “print” and finally “Oscar Wilde”—damn Flash). 

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Designer as Ghostwriter Metropolis coverage of this past weekend’s Social Studies uses Leslie’s Take Root presentation to drive its point home. 

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A Smarter MAMP I’ve been using MAMP, Headdress and Quicksilver to streamline the creation of new virtual hosts for local development but Jason’s BIND/VirtualDocumentRoot technique looks promising. 

Multicolr Search millions of Creative Commons Flickr photos by color. (via) 

CSS Browser Selector A lightweight (less than 1kb) JavaScript file that conditionally classes the html element allowing you to write browser specific selectors in your CSS. A simple, elegant solution. (via) 

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Front to Back: Ben Folds Five The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner performed live in its entirety by a temporarily reunited Ben Folds Five (plus Ben’s dad). Yes, I’m linking to MySpace. Blame Ryan. 

Classics A dedicated book app for the iPhone for presumably public domain classics. Looks sweet. (via) 

OMS!!!1 Oh. My. Science. Another barnacle app. This time we’re replacing “god” and “jesus” with “science.” Asimov would be proud. (via) 

CSSHttpRequest A clever alternative to JSONP that uses CSS rather than raw JavaScript as the delivery mechanism—which means a compromised third-party JSON provider is unable to run malicious code in the context of the requesting page. (via) 

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10tees Sweet tees from around the web grouped into themed collections of ten. 

Physics Invader Space Invaders plus gravity (and the carcasses of fallen enemy ships). (via) 

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typeface.js Text replacement using the Canvas element instead of Flash. Dear type vendors, please save us from these convoluted stopgaps. Legally, The Internet (via email) 

Huffduffer Says creator Jeremy Keith, “is like ffffound for ssssound.” 

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Giving geometry a bad name The new Pepsi logo just doesn’t add up. There’s no point flaunting your geometry if the finished piece comes across arbitrary and unbalanced. 

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The Listenings Richard over at Diesel Sweeties is following up on the Thrillening (a synchronized, distributed listening of Michael Jackson’s Thriller in its entirety) with a listening of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars using Twitter as a backchannel for the event.  

The State of Font Embedding Mark Wubben, the maintainer of sIFR, thinks out loud about font embedding and the various stop-gap alternatives. 

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Making Web Fonts Work Jon Tan on the current state of embedding typefaces. It never occurred to me that @font-face might incur a delay before rendering text (a common complaint against sIFR). And I had completely forgotten how rubbish ClearType is. Until anti-aliasing discrepancies between platforms can be resolved I don’t see even a standardized approach being accepted by discerning designers. Looks like we’re in for another four years of flash replacement. 

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