B-links, July 18

The Safari/OmniWeb version. And am I ever frigging tired of Safari’s crashing and losing tabs and the inability to easily export bookmarks from either of them. (Don’t even think of mentioning Saft.)

Accessibility

1. Large-print guidelines
2. Associazione Acromati Italiani Onlus (achromats)
3. Jordi Robert-Ribes is an Andorran and has researched captioning
4. Quark Gives First Look at XPress 7
5. FlubTitles: Astonishingly bad subtitle translations
6. Colour discrimination
7. Color Representation
8. L’ordinateur des aveugles
9. Free or cheap captioning/subtitling software
10. Captioned online video: 1
11. Quark’s Postcards from the Edge
12. Accessibility Features in Adobe Reader 7
13. Web Accessibility Visualizer
14. Colourblindness: Accessiblity-Designing for the Color-Challenged
15. Flash, DHTML Menus and Accessibility
16. Accessible Web Design – Weekly tips
17. Making Podcasting Accessible to All
18. Accessibility for Writers: Software Manuals
19. Why comply with Website Accessibility Standards?

Web standards

1. Amazon Light (again)
2. Language-specific styling: Quotation marks
3. Is image replacement really worth it?
4. South Shore Product Requirements Document: “South Shore is a shopping browser that is built on top of Mozilla technology that will allow users to shop online in a safe environment,” as by, I dunno, Google
5. Too many inline links
6. XML/XSLT Site: A Blast From the Past
7. Bearskinrug
8. Microformats could describe online news intelligently
9. Use of text-shadow: maratz.com
10. How to use the title [element]
11. Survival guide to i18n
12. RNID teaser site home page
13. How <link> bars are implemented
14. The Fade Anything Technique
15. Schwerdtfeger DHTML
16. Schwerdtfeger Moz ii
17. What Microsoft thinks tabindex is
18. Fanscription
19. Gareth’s Notes: Citeable Blockquotes
20. Quick Tips to Fix a CSS Bug
21. Annotating images with CSS
22. MathML in CSS: Experimental Testbed
23. cssdesign.se
24. CSS Zen Garden – an Eyetools eyetracking analysis
25. Setting the current menu state with CSS
26. CSS Generator
27. Discussing CSS Management and Optimization
28. A CSS-styled table
29. The Form Assembly: Free Web Form Builder, Form Templates and CSS Stylesheets
30. IE and italics problem
31. Non-Errors: Those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English
32. How to Spot a Wannabe Web Standards Advocate
33. ProjectNew: For designers new to standards
34. Design web : utiliser les standards (Zeldman in French)

Typography

1. TypoTechnica program
2. Someone else using Zapfino
3. Comic Sans: Vanagon.com
4. Bigger fonts in OS X
5. iPod fonts; I really hate Chicago; Geneva
6. Fixing Web Fonts on OSX After Microsoft Office; Font Folly: MS Office
7. Batch-convert fonts to and from OpenType
8. Music Band Fonts; Pastor of Muppets Font
9. Great Circus font misprinted
10. Font Fatigue: Pruning Excess Fonts in Mac OS X
11. Homoflexible: ClearType fonts from Microsoft
12. Gothic font
13. How Subpixel Font Rendering Works
14. Crowned C: Who knew Jonathan Cheban (no relation) was Swedish?
15. Surfing the Web for Design Lessons
16. Roger Black interview
17. The Rise and Fall of Rock and Roll Graphic Design

BigMuscleBlogs

1. Williamsburghipster: A worst-case scenario?
2. BM Silver-blond
3. Eyesoftexas (Ninjaoftexas?)
4. LittleMinx

General

1. Hate the bride, love the groom
2. Troy Hurtubise allegedly sees through walls
3. “I know there’s a utility for OSX that allows one mouse to move across all networked monitors”
4. Can Blogging Ever Become Big Business?
5. Screenplay formatting, which is fucked
6. ‘Seizure’ misspelling crashes Eloquence
7. Cassette to CD Service
8. Coupland interview
9. Amazon DevCon – Rael Dornfest notes and transcript
10. New Line Cinema Movie Publicity Site
11. Will Providing Marriage Rights to Same-Sex Couples Undermine Heterosexual Marriage? Evidence from Scandinavia and the Netherlands by M.V. Lee Badgett
12. Did gay marriage destroy heterosexual marriage in Scandinavia? by M.V. Lee Badgett
13. “How do we keep forgetting to mention that Ten Years Ago in Spy is back? Well, Ten Years Ago in Spy is back”
14. “[T]he techniques that the studios have been using to make sure the screener DVDs they’re sending out to awards-show voters don’t fall into the hands of pirates”
15. Rineke Dijkstra portraits
16. Mac Rat: “Look what I noticed as I was shoving the new boxes into the hall closet”
17. Economist: Linguists
18. Illustrated Mini Cooper
19. Pangrammer Helper
20. The DVD Journal: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
21. US Academic 1.0 Macintosh keyboard, a must for Unicodistas
22. Typewriter keyboard for Macs
23. Dutch Y
24. The films stink more than the greasy audience
25. Aqua Firefox Set
26. Mementoize Safari’s cache: “You remember a word, phrase or image title from a web page – but you’ve forgotten where you saw it – and you don’t want to wade through ‘History’ or Google to find it! Retrospective allows you to search Safari’s cache for any textual content on previously visited websites. That way you can quickly locate a page again if you forget the address but know something about the content”
27. Scan to PDF
28. Free Online Graph Paper/Grid Paper PDFs
29. Firefox & Thunderbird Guidebook
30. ACME Novelty Toy Gallery
31. Cherry compact keyboard
32. Cherry solar keyboard
33. A9 Yellow Pages have photos
34. Why Sontag Didn’t Want to Come Out
35. Happy Fun Ball
36. Macintosh Recycling
37. An Effective Solution for Spam
38. Glabrous
39. Backing out of being a tranny
40. Bruce Dickinson flies 737s
41. Twenty-four short films with music by Radiohead
42. The Institute For Figuring: “The Institute For Figuring is an educational organization dedicated to enhancing the public understanding of figures and figuring techniques”
43. Relay-operator threat
44. Controlling your Mac mini from your Newton
45. Things You Never Knew Existed: Pocket Dentist
46. The Veg Sex Shop: Safer Sex
47. Mercedes-Benz agrees: Leather-free options for all future models
48. Evil Signs Weblog
49. The Whole Flying-With–Virgin Atlantic Thing. Sorted
50. Mystery of ‘chirping’ pyramid decoded
51. Screen Grab Confab, Vol. II (large file with lengthy load time)
52. Vonage prices
53. How hard do you work?
54. How Much Does a Science Fiction or Fantasy Writer Make?
55. $419 headphones
56. StorageReview
57. Why bigger is better
58. Edirol UA1X USB Cable Audio Interface
59. FileSalvage
60. PDF Adder
61. The Importance of Google ©
62. Invoices Past Due
63. Why E-books flunk
64. Phototopia: Boys of Nuremberg
65. “WindowDragon allows a window’s entire structure to be used as move or resize zone”
66. iSpeak It
67. Great (and Not So Great) Sites Which Need a Redesign
68. Scientists, doctors and researchers warn of fluoridated water dangers
69. Beaches reflection
70. Long pages on WikiPedia
71. Milk substitutes
72. Wiki drawbacks
73. Why trust an encyclopedia?
74. SourceWatch, a directory of PR firms
75. Macintosh keyboard shortcuts
76. Well-designed WordPress sites
77. Chart of available Mac OS software updates
78. Project Manager Leaves Suicide PowerPoint Presentation
79. Justin Hall bows out at 31
80. Tyler Brûlé’s Desk
81. Breaking The Law (iPod/iTunes promotion-hacking)
82. Welsh Tea in Gaiman (Gaiman, Patagonia, not the author)
83. Brain study points to ‘sixth sense’
84. FlySketch: “Draw, highlight everywhere”
85. Momus: Acanthamoeba Keratitis
86. Mozdev.org: Preferential (for preferences)
87. CoffeeGeek
88. Hyperlinks in print (Cf. HyPulp)
89. Zuggest for Amazon
90. Vinyl records with iTunes
91. *sucks.com and how to deal with them
92. iPod eBooks Creator: Convert books (text files) into notes on iPod
93. HP Designjet 815mfp
94. QuickTime Pro: About Supported File Types
95. Firefox S5
96. Evert Bloemsma type design (R.I.P.)
97. HumaneText.service
98. faircopyright.ca
99. Henri Sivonen’s pages (Mozilla, especially “print UI for Mozilla”)
100. Freedom of Expression PDF
101. Word of mouth ‘winner for books’
102. Gawker: 12 posts, $2,500/month
103. One-Click Backup? It Exists!
104. alt-textit
105. Statistically improbable
106. Citrus Deodorant
107. Swiss (photo)
108. Writing for the Future
109. Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer
110. South by Etech recollections
111. Videoblogging Messages
112. Current Football Players If They Decided to Spell Their Last Name Like Brett Favre
113. Rap Act or Gay-Rights Advocacy Group?
114. Cruel Nicknames for Overweight Vampires
115. RYB & RGB
116. Surviving the Pandemic
117. Super OS X menubar items
118. Tabtastic
119. Cepstral TTS voices (like Rhetorical’s)

Flickrism

1. Anne van Kesteren on Flickr
2. Flickr Coïncidences
3. Toronto subway buttons

BoingBoingWatch

1. BoingBoing admits making money
2. BoingBoing Butler
3. Boing Boing: How to de-Xeni BoingBoing
4. Boing Boing, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching