Gabe Martin
This is a nicely put together personal/portfolio site. Look for a rip-off near here sometime soon :)

(I’m kidding.. though I am working on a redesign)

Using relative font-sizes

from Dive into Acccessibility - this is a really good walkthrough of setting up a template with scalable, relative font-sizes. Uses css keywords and some css browser exclusion hacks to navigate the minefield of font-sizing (nn4 gets fixed pixel size)

radio 4 and the shipping forecast

after a short piece on NPR I got nostalgic for the shipping forecast on bbc radio 4, which used to be a fixture in my late night listening. Of course, all this stuff is online: BBC - Radio 4 - Shipping Forecast for a Real Audio stream.

Rural Panoramas - Walking Britain

Some nice photos of home 1.0

Website Stress-Testing

Useful article including whys, how-to’s and reviewing a shortlist of software to help.

The quest for a 3 row “letterbox” style layout

These are my notes on vertically stretchy layout tests and prototypes, written a little while back while working on the new frogdesign.com site. Later design changes made a lot of this redundant and/or overkill, but it was a great voyage of discovery for me, driven by a faith that CSS could win the day (in which I think I was vindicated).

a banana is not an easy thing

This is a banana-skin art project by Shelley Sacks- a “social sculpture” that took banana grower numbers and traced some of the individual farmers in St. Lucia who grew them. The exhibition featured large sheets of cured, sewn banana skin, but the whole project took place in a much larger context, addressing consumer responsibility and the impact of multinational agribusiness, as well as some more immediate issues for the growers. This is fascinating stuff.

Dried banana skin art. (scroll down to the bottom)

Someone showed up at my site refered by a search at google for “dried banana skin”. This is apparently an “ancient african art”. I have to know more.

The Welburn Gourd Farm

holy shit, these people grow over 300,000 gourds a year. That’s some operation - one I’d love to see. I apparently just stumbled on gourd-central. Next time I’m driving through S. California I’ll try and drop by. There’s some great photos and stuff going on here though.

Woodworking Software Articles

long list of CAD reviews and articles on computers and software all as it applies to (small) wood shop work. Lots of reading for later.