November 2005

On the Web

• Talking with Jason Santa Maria: An Event Apart, #04: AIGA interrogates Stan.
• Find 74 Bands: And say goodbye to the rest of your day.
• Pixelworthy Is Looking for an Account Executive: Your chance to work with a great team in Philadelphia.
• AT&T Says Bye-Bye to Saul Bass: Another classic logo bites the dust. And how.
• Design Online: Every issue of Design Magazine, from 1965 through 1974, transcribed and scanned for your reading… See more →

crucial trade secrets
can’t be wheedled out of me
but I’ll accept cash

we have not seen Frank
since he sent that billet-doux
to the president

woebegone widow
Ethel’s lassitude belies
her speed addiction

he cannot sit through
this soporific movie
devoid of bare breasts

since you are vegan
I have prepared this repast
of shredded newsprint

Trans Am headlights pierce
the thick crepuscular mist
questing for tube tops

The Beatles entered
resulting in a maelstrom
since two are corpses

milkshake subterfuge
the one surefire way to get
B.A. on a plane

now concealed beneath
the lambent waves of the lake
Charles waited for dawn

still rubicund from
Monday’s codpiece incident
Jill stayed home last night

the children all loved
his prestidigitation
but his teeth scared them

from under my bed
a kobold snarled in contempt
at my taste in shoes

your renowned aplomb
couldn’t fend off syphilis
could it, Mr. Bond?

spiked punch, icy stare
with a puissant uppercut
the prom was over

your laudable goal
of keeping the dolphins safe
makes my stomach growl

though she was backlit
in a warm oneiric haze
we still opened fire

when presented with
a large, exquisite nosegay
Hercules disrobed

petrified mangos
though not propitious for juice
can be thrown at cops

her delicate skin
dappled by the disco ball
hides its jaundice well

the stringent mores
of my son’s little league team
reject Calvinism

the Corvette peeled out
its subfusc interior
held gallons of Tab

our vacation’s dawn
the alpenglow reminds us
we left the stove on

While it admittedly still has a long way to go, the web standards adoption rate is growing by leaps and bounds. For those of us that came from non-semantic web design traditions (laying out pages using tables, for example), the contrast between our old, backwards methods and the much more reasonable standards-based way of doing things is profound. This perspective strengthens our understanding of exactly how good of an idea web standards are, and makes… See more →