December 2005

On the Web

• Titles Designed by Saul Bass: Complete list of the films Bass worked on, with lots of information and images.
• Lazy Sunday: SNL rap video extolling the decadent joys of cupcakes and Narnia.
• Art Chantry: Pearls Are a Nuisance: Video from this fall’s massive exhibition at the Philip Slein Gallery in St. Louis.
• Superdickery: Absurd and hilarious comic book covers of yesteryear.
• The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web: Robert Bringhurst’s indispensible… See more →

after his kids were
trampled by digerati
he stopped reading Wired

though they were siblings
their sub rosa love affair
made their parents proud

my carny contract
which I thought was sacrosanct
turned out not to be

hale and full of pep
we sprung from the hospital
with morphine to sell

Richie, best known as
a paladin of Denny’s
gets in lots of fights

Sarge earned our respect
with his combat carapace
made of children’s teeth

A recent conversation with Eric Meyer about his history degree got me thinking about the web standards community’s seemingly anomalous lack of formal education in web technology and design. Indeed, some of the most influential people in the web standards world spent their school days and/or early careers scrutinizing subjects that have little or nothing to do with divs, hex values, kerning, or color theory. Jeffrey Zeldman has an MA in Writing, and worked in… See more →

the Tmesis Titan’s
archenemy Compound Creep
secretly loved him

when did you become
such a voluptuary
to scorn Top Ramen?

my sylvan retreat
was rudely interrupted
by the Oakland A’s

assiduousness
is perforce its own reward
for fans of “Cop Rock”

a ranting hobo
logorrheic by nature
yearned for a hatchet

your Pulitzer Prize
is less appealing than your
craps table panache

the wedding was stopped
when Fido redivivus
devoured the bridegroom

the neighbors dislike
Warren’s proclivity for
bathing alfresco