Tips on using NOW() in MySQL and negative matching with Regular Expressions:

• MySQL SELECT Entries Before NOW()
• Negative Word Matching with Regular Expressions

“ Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. ”

Small World

Two interesting articles on A List Apart about web standards:

• Web Standards 2008: Three Circles of Hell
• Test-Driven Progressive Enhancement

A few links :

• Anchor buttons on buttons, on Mezzoblue
• 10 Principles of the PHP Masters
• CopyAndPaste Click a character to copy it

“ Hit pause for a moment and consider how greatly we - people in the digital age - are indebted to typographers. Almost all of our visual communication is delivered using the products of their craft: newspapers, SMSes, instant messages, emails, web pages, signs, posters, billboards; the list of purposes is endless. In these days where looping strokes have been replaced by keyboard clickety-clack, typographers define the style and tone of our missives. Would you like to be elegant, modern, childish or ... disturbed? Then you can choose between Garamond, Montag, Comic Sans, Zebraflesh, and a thousand more. There's great power in a typeface, but what's always interested me more than the typeface is the designer behind it - why did they create the typeface? Where did their inspiration come from? How did they start? ”

Handwritten typographers

“ In Melbourne I developed a way-finding-system for the Eureka Tower Carpark while working for Emery Studio. The distorted letters on the wall can be read perfectly when standing at the right position. ”

Eureka Tower Carpark

On designfeedr :

Stunning illustrated typography on dark backgrounds

On Chris Shiflett's blog:

Inspecting and Hacking HTTP

Interesting use of telnet and lots of links to different HTTP debugging (and not only) tools.

A post on The Ministry of Type:

Guilloches

“ Why has it got to such a level when the world has enough wealth to help address most of these problems, or at least alleviate more of the suffering?”

Global Health Overview

Apart from all considerations of political and economical factors, I always think that indifference is behind most of the problems. If we were many more asking ourselves that question, it would be relatively easy to see and correct causes instead of always just patch the effects.

On SCP :

Design Inspiration: typography posters

The library and the blog of Jos Buivenga (LJB) where you can find his (8) free fonts:

• exljbris Font Foundry
• exljbris - Free Quality Font Foundry (the blog)