I suppose this could be a good thing in some ways, but it's one less excuse to not create a Flash-based abomination.

John Resig has "ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the Canvas element."

I'm counting the days until the nineties come back. I never quit wearing flannel shirts, so I am ready!

Here's an installer for Apache, MySQL, and PHP for OS X.

This color picker gives you complementary tones.

"What if Google had to design their user interface for Google?

Writing for The Guardian, Nick Carr celebrates the "dramatic whitespace" Facebook app.

"The Grid Layout Javascript enables web-developers to stick to a Grid Layout quickly and simply by including the Grid Layouts Javascript file and simple XHTML code."

This CSS framework supposedly makes it easy to create nice grid layouts.

This really interesting post criticizes the idea of Information Architecture for reducing design issues to issues of information.

This color picker creates a palette based on an image URI.

Shareware package for hacking content-management systems like WordPress.

These CSS layout templates are licensed under Creative Commons. I'm pretty sure they will come in handy when we make Blogger templates in the class I'm teaching this semester.

This online reference takes rules from a typography manual and describes how to implement them in CSS.

I just realized I never posted my favorite color-picker to del.icio.us.

This is kind of interesting, but the center column flows over in my browser.

Oh, so straightforward, but so non-obvious...

Allows you to test out various open source CM systems with no installation.

Via Prentiss, vote for ten of the most appealing SXSWi panels. This is your chance to improve the representation of women at the conference, if you're so inclined.

Via Kottke, this story suggests that Georgia is back in a big way. I'd suggest its popularity is due to the fact that it and Times New Roman are the two serif fonts you can expect users to have. And Times is kind of ugly.

your opportunity to redesign one of the ugliest sites on teh Internets.

Pretty visualizations of del.icio.us bookmarks.

University-approved color formulas for burnt orange. #CC5500 == hook 'em!

"If open source is trees, Web 2.0 is hemp."

HTML entities for a mindblowing array of iconic symbols. I like the the radiation symbol.

The last one is a little tasteless, but these signs are probably needed.

Ostensibly best practices in contemporary Web design. I'm not crazy about the way that sites are looking these days, especially with the two-and-a-half-D bubble buttons.