Monthly Archives: March 2001

The Obligatory Design and Usability Guru Links

Extra power to Jake and Jeff–two well known guys who battle daily for honesty on the Web. But more power still to Vince, one of the oft forgetten pioneers for good Web design. Besides he’s much funnier than the other … Continue reading

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Making Custom Bookmark Icons for Your Site

I’ve set things so that I have a customized icon if people decide to add this site there favorites list in IE 5+. I don’t think this will work in IE 5 for the Mac but, let me know if … Continue reading

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Little Tiny Print Sucks

This is all Microsoft’s fault. IE 3 had terrible implementation of CSS and could only support absolute font units like point (pt). Legions of web designers quickly began cranking out zillions of pages that were, and sometimes still are, damn … Continue reading

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Mad Scientists Take Note

Memepool is a great source for obscure, interesting and useful pages on a wide array of subects. The gadget section and the science section ought to be required reading for any MIT hopeful.

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Turning a computer into a DVR

My urges to abolish any form of push marketing in my life compel me to investigate digital video recorders. But then my urges to only spend my money on real hardware compel me to investigate software that will convert a … Continue reading

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Things Every Superhero Should Know

How do you build a superhero base? Every superhero needs some kind of a secret base. Some superheroes go a step further and rule their own nation-states! Superheroes also need some really cool ride. Even if only to get to … Continue reading

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This Script is Now Live

Mr. Farlops is pleased! This web log is now fully operational. The mind boggles! But how about you? Is this web log hard to navigate? How is the layout of the navigational links? Is it intuitive? Is it cumbersome? Do … Continue reading

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What's New?

Plans in the Melt Bulletin board is now retired and all links to it are certain to be dead. In coming days, we will replace this page with a Web log. Once this is in place and functioning smoothly, attention … Continue reading

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