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Maintain Your Privacy on the Web

The answer, of course, is to legislate. (Kidding…) Set your privacy settings, use Firefox with a blocker such as PrivacySuite from Abine at home, read about the issue here and here as well as listen to this little podcast at

Posted in Action!, Fiddling & Time Wasters, Technical Geekery, Useful Code

Study Graphic Design! For Free! At Home! In Your Spare Time!

University has its place, but without self-education we are lost.

Posted in Amusement, Color Theory, Copywriting, Course Related, Design Ethics, Actions & Impact, Design History, Design Theory, Drawing, Editorial, Education, Fiddling & Time Wasters, Mad Props, Packaging, Persons of Interest, Portfolio Workshop, PrePress, Repost From Cited Source, Resources, Scholarship, Space, Stock, Stuff To Do, Technical Geekery, Tutorial, Typography, Useful Code, User Interface Design, Visual Concepts, Vocation & Profession, Web

CSS Pattern Library and Gradient Tutorial

CSS Tartan Plaid: background-color: hsl(2, 57%, 40%);
background-image: repeating-linear-gradient(transparent, transparent 50px, rgba(0,0,0,.4) 50px, rgba(0,0,0,.4) 53px, transparent 53px, …

Posted in Resources, Tutorial, Useful Code, Web

Another Interesting Opensource Mapping Script

“Nope, that’s not the true size of Greenland.” Open, Forkable, NOT Google Based, and some 3D: What’s not to love?

Posted in Technical Geekery, Useful Code, User Interface Design, Visual Concepts, Vocation & Profession