I made The SHAWC Project this weekend. It’s a “photo project” I’ve ben doing for years, and now I can call it a Photo Project.

It’s very beta, but works in modern non-IE browsers for sure. Please participate!

I finally put up a portfolio!

Keyboard/Notebook concept from Yamaha Concepts, via Yanko Studio.

Via Boing Boing Gadgets.

Via Design You Trust.

Overall, I’m very satisfied. Safari is the fastest browser I’ve ever used, it’s find/search function is beyond reproach, and it has that sexy look of Mac OS. The only problem? Viewing source code is awful. Compare this, from Safari:

WIth this, from Firefox:

It’s not hard to figure out which one is easier to read (it’s Firefox!).

Viewing Source

As a website designer, I look at source code A LOT; even during casual browsing. It’s part learning (new techniques), part respect (you’d be surprised how much work goes into a really great website), and part horror (I’m an elitist; bad code makes me shudder). But, also as a designer, I like things to look and work great; Safari’s view source ironically does neither.

Sexist Analogy

The best analogy I can come up with is x-ray specs. Imagine having the ability to see through anyones clothes and check out what’s going on underneath. For the sake of this analogy, you can’t see full nudity (that would require access to server-side languages), but you can see underwear.

Underwear’s important. Even though other people don’t usually see it, you know it’s there. A guy on a date will be more confident wearing nice boxer-briefs than tighty whities that same way a woman with a sexy matching set feels more confident than someone in granny panties. There’s something about nice underwear that shows a real control of style and everyone knows that the most appreciated things are those that usually go unappreciated.

So viewing a website’s source is like checking out a hot girl’s underwear. But when you’re using Safari, they’re all wearing unmatching granny panties. I don’t want to look at that. I don’t even understand why that happens. Why would I continue to look at Ms. Granny Pants when Ms. Black Lace is standing next to her?

Enter Safari Source

Safari Source is a plugin that adds syntax highlighting. It’s like Safari goes to a lingerie store and comes back looking like this:

And that’s just awesome.

Style is static. If you had a real sense of style in 1954, you probably still look stylish today. Fashion, on the other hand, is what creates things like mullets, scrunchies, neon colours, and other awful things that make you embarrassed years later.

Fashion can only be stylish by coincidence.

Source: Gizmodo.

The 70m2 apartment was remodeled by London-based Levitate Architects, who created “a new bedroom level and increasing the floor area of the flat by approximately one third.” The staircase is both the way to access the bedroom and a perfect place to store books, movies or CDs. “With a skylight above lighting the staircase, it becomes the perfect place to stop and browse a tome,” says Levitate’s Tim Sloan, who also pointed out the unique structure of each step, allowing for anyone to comfortably sit down while picking a book.

Source: Ironic Sans.

Source: The RPF.

Just a couple of days ago, I was wondering how long you could live frozen in carbonite, and if it could be used in a Walt Disney kind of way. As awesome as this desk is, I’m pretty sure that fictional theoretics would really kill my productivity. That and the constant worry it was real and an angry Harrison Ford would wake and attack me at any given moment.