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12-03-09 | Why your web pages print badly and how to fix them

Too often, web pages print horribly, or not at all. Here are the four most common web printing problems and how to fix them.

10-16-09 | 12 Cool Ideas from Event Apart Chicago 2009

Twelve of the most interesting take-aways from the coolest web design conference in 2009

10-09-07 | How to Set Up Custom Wordpress Category Templates in Four Easy Steps

You want Wordpress to style posts from different categories in different ways, but don’t know how? This tutorial explains how to do it in four simple steps.

08-23-07 | 8 HTML Email Tips I Wish I’d Known Sooner

Designing HTML Email can be tricky, ugly, and messy. Here are 8 tips for doing it right.

05-18-07 | Eight logos that suck

A critical look at eight well-known logos that bug the hell out of me

05-17-07 | Like Iron Chef, but for web designers

“The concept is simple. Web teams take each other on, at the same location, to build a complete website in 24 hours. No excuse, no extensions, no budget overruns…”

05-09-07 | One Designer. Five Questions.

Just think of me as the lost 36th designer…

04-20-07 | Monsters, mess-management, and music: How I get things done

More than you could ever want to know about how your friendly neighborhood poker-playin’, mashup makin’, dog-walking designer gets things done.

03-24-07 | Cool ad! You’re fired…

Phil de Vellis remixed a classic 1984 Macintosh ad with video from Hillary Clinton’s web site. Too bad millions of people liked it so much. Otherwise, he might still have his day job.

03-07-07 | Five thoughts about the USA Today redesign

USA Today relaunched it’s site with a ton of new interactive, community features. Is that a good or bad thing? Five thoughts on the matter.

03-02-07 | Obama’s Logo

Barack Obama’s logo is one more reason to like the guy.

Other thoughts

04-09-09 | The Nine Most Disappointing Movies of All Time

Nine movies I wish I could forget

01-27-09 | Forty things I’ve learned

A few things I have figured out so far…

02-19-08 | 65 (and counting) energy drinks reviewed

I’ve tried dozens of energy drinks: the good, the bad, and the undrinkable. In the interest of public service, I rank them for you.

10-02-07 | Big in Italy… sort of…

It took a while, but someone from the old country noticed one of my bootlegs.

09-06-07 | The 11 Most Overrated Movies of All Time

Eleven movies that aren’t as good as you remember them.

07-05-07 | “Dramatic Look” Prairie Dog: Evolution of a Web Meme

How a funny-looking Japanese prairie dog became the latest, biggest web celebrity

05-14-07 | The Ten Best TV Shows of All Time

No, Sopranos isn’t the best show in TV history. It’s good, but it just barely cracks my top ten.

04-04-07 | Big in Japan

My Justin Timberlake/Kraftwerk mash-up got some love from Japan

03-14-07 | Eight cool and three lame things I discovered at SXSW ‘07

SXSW Interactive is a great place to discover interesting new stuff. It’s also a good place to discover stuff you’d rather never see again.

03-08-07 | mattmedia 3.0

Say goodbye to the flash-based clunker I had before. Say hello to an accessible, dynamic, CSS-based mattmedia. I’ll miss my bouncy sound effects, though.

03-04-07 | SXSW-bound

I’m heading back to Austin for the third time in four years. It’s safe to say that without SXSW, I don’t think I’d have the job I do now.