I’m only about half way through this revelatory essay on web typography and the paragraph and I already know that it’s the most important thing I’ve read on the craft of web design in years. I think it may completely change the way I work.

Don’t miss the accompanying piece of stylistic treatments.

I may be running behind the pack on this one, but I’m starting to get the feeling that JQuery is about to become the javascript library of choice for the discerning web standards developer. See, for example, Dave Shea discussing his use of JQuery for the Bright Creative redesign.

Maybe this will finally spur me into getting my portfolio in working order!

So I just cleaned up after my first ever spam attack. It wasn’t too bad; just a few comments advertising some rancid gewgaws. One day the slimy reprobates behind the IP address 92.48.106.160 will drown in a foetid pool of their own inhuman waste, with the full knowledge that their every dream has become like ashes.

So yeah. Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, part one is finally out and in my hot little hands. I’ve been playing it on and off for the last couple of days. It’s really fun. I’m pleased to note that Gabe and Tycho’s juvenile/erudite humour is in full force.

The thumbnail on the left is of my player character. It’s a scarily good likeness.

Via Daring Fireball (who devoted an entire episode of his podcast to Apple keyboards), Mark Llobrera rants entertainingly about the pathetic state of keyboards in our diminished world of the Fourth Age.

I actually have a Matias Tactile Pro keyboard. I don’t use it anymore because the noise really is a bit much for a shared work environment. Plus, some of the keys (like the Return!) work very poorly. And the plastic housing is amazingly brittle and I’ve already injured myself on some of the razor-sharp shards that break off it. Catriona wondered very quickly after I bought it why I’d dropped AUS $200 on a computer keyboard. I sometimes wonder about that myself — and I’m still searching for the perfect QWERTY interface.