and swoosh! suddenly rebol will be known all around the web-wide world: rebol and morpheus join forces.

wow, timothy gfrerer's weblog (yet another) is pretty cool. different navigation makes it more interesting (unfortunately, also more difficult for accomodated users).

interesting color schemes at orf on.

a cool costume for halloween (if you can't avoid it), a bunch of funny animaticons and much more. found via lazyatom.

a possible way how to implement rdf site summary support for wikis (via langreiter.com). and it works!

myfavouritebook.com. if i should ever want to write a book. because "everyone is an author – everyone is a publisher".

"von wegen microsoft hätten screenfonts erfunden, pah!"

pimi adds an important name to the list of screen font pioneers: susan kare designed the bitmapped fonts for the first macintosh in 1983 – among all the other famous mac icons and applications...

she's also responsible for some windows 3.0 appearance (interestingly, the more colourful it gets, the less i like it).

"the nature of user interface design is collaborative; much great software is the result of a team effort among engineers, marketing types, and designers. my design work – installed at the top level of software – has often been inspired by imaginative and breakthrough engineering." – susan kare.

this is a test to evaluate whether / when the aski website gets into google after being linked on this weblog. greetings to nikolamitk and rainer the birthday-boy.

kunstgeschichte.de – this is a typical example of what i scorn so much regarding german web activities. and it's like that simply too often.

if the big goodie in windows xp is sub-pixel font rendering (aka "cleartype"), somebody is condemning catastrophe for flirting with desaster.

joel spoolsky writes in his article "three wrong ideas from computer science": "if you try to read a paragraph of antialiased text, it just looks blurry. there's nothing i can do about it, it's the truth. [...] using a form of antialiasing they call 'cleartype' designed for color lcd screens [...], i'm sorry, still looks blurry, even on a color lcd screen".

text, especially tiny one, is best legible on a screen using screen fonts like verdana (to mention the most widely used one): "instead of creating a high-resolution font and then trying to hammer it into the pixel grid, they [joel refers to the microsoft typography group, but i rather would refer to the typography-savvy generally*] finally accepted the pixel grid as a 'given' and designed a font that fits neatly into it".

we need more pixels, not more blurring techniques.

* while microsoft indeed made screen fonts available for almost everyone due to their power of distribution, i don't think it is justified to claim they've invented screen fonts. there are countless screen fonts but as they still have to be installed on the client machine to be displayed in an html document, they could not get that popular (although e.g. jason kottke's "silkscreen" made it into the hearts and font collections of state-of-the-art graphic designers). similarly, microsoft did not invent the mechanisms behind "cleartype". as steve gibson details: "twenty-two years ago apple ii programmers wer using these techniques". and gibson is not the only one who doubts that "cleartype" is a technological breakthrough by microsoft. ron feigenblatt reports about his "research into the problem of rendering on color mosaic matrix displays", which took place in the late 1980s. this also might be from importance since we have to cope with another patent issue here (and ask ourselves what the hell apple was doing in the meantime).