B-links, April 22

Bit o’ catching up to do.

1. Trompe-l’œil switchboxen.  ¶ 22a
2. Possibly the best gay-sports photo of 2004, if not ever. Why? Rough, tough, jolly sorts of fellows nonchalantly sheltering themselves under umbrellas at football game. Real men hold brollies, and are 6′4″ and 200 pounds. Can you even tell they’re gay?  ¶ 22b
3. Man Happier About Switch to Mac than Conversion to Christianity  ¶ 22c
4. Hasn’t “gay rapper” been done already?  ¶ 22d
5. cameron diaz height. cameron diaz height. Searching for cameron diaz height? … Get yourself a pair of Elevator shoes to get the answer for cameron diaz height.  ¶ 22e
6. Apple archæology.  ¶ 22f
7. Web server made from a thousand iPaqs, right here “on Laird.” Loved the SPY-CAM action.  ¶ 22g
8. Enabling Cuneiform Support in InfoPath 2003 SP1: “This will also install all the files needed for the Voynich, Vinca, Iberic, Etruscan, Linear A (Minoan form), Linear B (Greek form), and Rongo Rongo language support. Please be aware that the default currency will be switched to zuzu and the default date format will be synodic.”  ¶ 22h
9. Serbian v. Russian Cyrillic italic forms. Michael Everson professes not to understand the fuss.  ¶ 22i
10. Similarly, Greek in Unicode.  ¶ 22j
11. Un journaliste faussaire du Chicago Tribune démasqué par un weblogueur. Dig that last word. Been there, done that.  ¶ 22k
12. Accessibility LiveJournals.  ¶ 22l
13. Japanese traditional Deba knives.  ¶ 22m
14. Semantic data extractor: Can you extract anything from your sites? Well, I certainly can.  ¶ 22n
15. Crowns! I clearly remember Husqvarna bikes when growing up.  ¶ 22o
16. IE bounding-box problem with italic rendering.  ¶ 22p
17. ASCII art skin for Opera.  ¶ 22q
18. “Oh. My. God! Is that…. Yes, it is, folks. Irascible Oscar winner Russell Crowe has arrived in Toronto.”  ¶ 22r
19. Web Awards Disconnect: “This emphasis on web standards and accessibility has been present in the last several SXSW Interactive events. It would be reasonable to assume that SXSW would practice what it preaches. But an examination of the SXSW Interactive website argues otherwise. The code does not validate…. It is also missing the most basic accessibility feature a website can have: alt tags on the images…. Only two sites actually validated and were easily accessible….
    The disconnect is obvious. In the panels we’re told that accessibility and web standards are important…. I think SXSW Interactive needs to decide what it supports and be consistent about it. If Flash sites are going to continue to grab the awards, let’s see half a dozen panels on designing motion graphics. If the Web Awards represent the best in web design, let that be reflected in the panels so that we designers can learn how to make the best web sites.”  ¶ 22s
20. What’s Wrong with the BBC Web Site  ¶ 22t
21. How to unfuck Outlook mail formatting. Why not just give up on Outlook? It is the cause of great pain.  ¶ 22u
22. Corian® kitchen. (Via Wallpaper^<asterisk>.)  ¶ 22v
23. Tiny Cubit Wintel boxen.   ¶ 22w
24. In the Belly of St. Paul by Underworld–Tomahto.  ¶ 22x
25. A new kind of Amazon profile; it was actually the Alexa profile all the while.  ¶ 22y