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The Chipper

  • Versions, the Mac Subversion Client, is finally out. As Dave Simon stated, the ultimate in vaporware is no more.
  • Seth Godin: The Media, Selling The Drama.
  • Glarkware has a badass Cylon toaster shirt for sale. WANT!
  • OS Form Elements: Layered PSDs for the form elements of 3 major browsers. Helpful for mockups. (via JSM)
  • Mondrianum: OS X Color Picker, and Kuler swatch-downloader thingamabob. (via Oxton)
  • This is How We Do. Frank Chimero's process for incorporating hand-drawn style into vector illustrations.

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Posted by Tom at 05.14.08
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I’m holding out for at hero ‘till the end of the night / He’s gotta be strong / And he’s gotta be fast / And he’s gotta be fresh from the fight

Ok, I know that’s over the top, but I’d like to introduce you to Silas Dilworth’s new “Heroic Condensed”. If you’re a fan of condensed, slab sans-serifs like I am, then you’ll understand my enthusiasm. Available in 8 weights, and currently 33% off from its regular price, it’s hard to resist grabbing this up.

Posted by Tom at 03.13.08
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The Obama Store has released 4500 / 5000 of Shepherd Fairey’s “CHANGE” poster. Get ‘em while they’re still around.

All purchases made on the Artist for Obama Gallery are 100% contributions to the campaign and count toward your overall contribution limit of $2300. Contributions are not tax deductible for federal income tax purposes.
Posted by Tom at 01.11.08
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If you haven’t met previously, let me introduce you two…

Maybe you’ve been designing websites for a month. Or maybe you’ve been at it for years. You’ve been using CSS for presentational markup with HTML, and you know how reliably pages tend to display when using a modern, standards-compliant browser like Firefox or Safari. And then you view your layout in the dreaded Internet Explorer 6. It’s blown to bits, kablooey, gobbledygook. You followed all the rules, but everything is misaligned, your margins are blown, your em-based font sizes are way off…