Using image concatenation to help with page load
Instead of making six different calls to load six different icon images, make one call (which gets cached!) to one big image and use CSS background position it. Clever, that.
Six basic truths about free APIs
“Free APIs are not a god-given right”
I’m sure you do, dude. I’m sure you do.
How a t-shirt goes from concept to on your back at SpreadShirt [via]
Death by “receiving oral sex?” Sure. Death by spending too much time playing World of Warcraft? No thanks.
One more for the annals of bad ad placement [via]
Kottke “hacks” the New Yorker’s website to start annoying you that much earlier
Of course, he uses the word “hack” in that grating way that best describes the person who uses it as opposed to the actual act. This may be the ultimate in self-parody Editor’s note : this was a stupid, small, throwaway joke that backfired and simultaneously made me look like an asshole while inadvertently hurting someone’s feelings. For this I am sorry, I’ll keep the post up to remind everyone (and myself) that there’s something to be said for decorum and that, on occasion, I can be a douchebag.
History of Swiss graphic design
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Might as well grow a beard and start eating Pringles at home
—Ben, on what it takes to be a blogger