QuirksMode – for all your browser quirks Spend more time there than I’ve been able to, and report back. It looks very useful.

The Movie Cliches List, part 1 Things like… “Pedestrians in Hollywood have the world’s best reactions, so don’t worry if you have to drive down a sidewalk. Mr Pappodopolus is quite used to having his fruit cart smashed, and despite his gesticulations and curses, he always manages to get out of the way in time.”

for Business Recent Press Releases" class=“external”>Here’s what you do with all those unused Aeron chairs sitting around.

Zeldman: Coding for easier redesigns revisits some of the territory from Designing with Web Standards related to thinking structurally and how that helps later. Note, I would have pasted a relevant quote or two, but the article itself is presented entirely in Flash, so I couldn’t select or copy any of the text. What’s that supposed to be, some sort of “Rich Application” DRM? Another fine example of what not to use Flash for.

Alertbox: Nielsen’s latest Alertbox has some useful tips and research for creating company “About Us” pages.

Via Joel on Software comes word of tokens, a method of sending large files or folders of files through email. Looks like a very nice implementation, but $49.00 is the wrong price point for it to, as Joel says, “take off like wildfire.” And another thing, the Creo website bears a striking resemblance to many of the early designs of fusionary.com.

Chris Hester has way too much time on his hands. Here’s how I know (Nope, not a single image)

Personas: Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites As long as personas are developed with diligence, the planning and development tool has three key benefits for interface design projects of all kinds. First, personas introduce teams to hypothetical users who have names, personal traits, and habits that in a relatively short time become believable constructs for honing design specifications. Second, personas are stand-ins with archetypal characteristics that represent a much larger group of users.

A List Apart’s new design is out, and along with it a few new articles, of which the most interesting is Douglas Bowman’s Sliding Doors of CSS. I’ve been using a combination of techniques for creating tabbed navigation using CSS and lists, but this one tops em all.

A Thousand Kisses Deep Leonard Cohen The ponies run, the girls are young, The odds are there to beat. You win a while, and then it’s done Your little winning streak. And summoned now to deal With your invincible defeat, You live your life as if it’s real, A Thousand Kisses Deep. I’m turning tricks, I’m getting fixed, I’m back on Boogie Street. You lose your grip, and then you slip

After listening to David Foster Wallace interviewed on Talk of the Nation, I remembered to buy his new book, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity. The “Thanks for your order” page at Amazon recommended that I buy a book by an author who’s work Wallace’s is frequently compared to, Don Delillo. And as we all know, Don Delillo wrote a book titled White Noise. Strange and suprisingly irrelevant.

Couldn’t wait to try iTunes on my VAIO since others like MusicMatch are good but not great. Download, fire up the installer and… …nothing… …Wait!, nope “1608: Couldn’t do something-or-other”. Looks to be a fairly common problem with InstallShield on Windows. Unfortunately, none of the solutions found after about 3 hours of Googling have helped. Back to using “foobar2000 for now. Aside: There’s a good writeup of iTMS good and bad at Page 1 (10/2003)” class=“external”>Ars Technica