Monthly Archives: February 2007

A design pattern for image and figure alignment

Dan Cederholm proposed the idea of a figure microformat some time ago and I followed up with a post the microformats discuss list. I’ve continued thinking about it and after throwing down with Tantek over IM, realized that K2‘s presentational approach of using alignleft, alignright and center classnames on images just didn’t hold up over [...]

MarsEdit blog editor sold to Red Sweater software

I’m a bit late with this news, but since MarsEdit is my blogging tool of choice, I thought that I’d note that Newsgator has decided to sell MarsEdit to Red Sweater Software (Brent Simmons has more, as does Gus Mueller (former MarsEdit developer) ), makers of FlexTime. Here’s to a 2.0 release sooner than later!

Under lock and key

Daniel Quinn has written about civilization and how agricultural farming is what has brought us to our current environmental predicament. In his books, particularly Ishmael and My Ishmael, he points out putting the food supply under lock and key (as opposed to being readily available for foraging) is a natural outgrowth of agriculture, given its [...]