CSS Layouts for your web pages

Good source of good clean CSS layouts for web pages.

Color and graphic design software

Color Consultant Pro for Mac OS (9 and X) is a $30 piece of software that makes color palettes: colors that go together. The same site has Art Directors Toolkit 3 which does things like calculate the width of columns and gutters for print layouts, convert between measuring scales, calculate RGB and CMYK color values and more things that professional graphic designers and artists need.

Urban Dictionary

What other people are doing online

boingboing.net has fascinating tidbits every day. Addictive.

secondlife is a shared virtual world where you can make your own everything. Are you playing it? Are you playing something else even better, maybe where you can paint too? Let me know and I'll post a list of cool places to hang out.

oishii is a list of currently popular links from del.icio.us

Shop droppers

Not the newest idea in the world, but it's cool to see CNN giving it some play. As they predict, how long will it take for corporate america to get in on it?

Here's another link to a Shop Dropping site. With an open call for an upcoming show.

RIP Indica

Indica: "Recently we lost one of our closest friends in a fatal fire in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her name is Teena (A.K.A. Indica) and her favorite thing to do besides making music was her graffiti pieces which were all over our city."

May her friends and family find comfort in each other.

Etching your Powerbook

Forget gold fronts. Etch your favorite style into your aluminum Powerbook. In black.

The art schools I wanted to go to

Penland and
Alfred U

RIP Mobile: where dead phones can go

Trade your old mobile phone in for other stuff.

Pixel Roller

I don't know how they do this, but dang it's cool. It's a printing technology that lets you print on walls using something that looks a lot like a paint roller. The video is worth a week of explanation, though so watch it and be amazed.

Operation Truth

"The truth about Iraq from those who served"

Spidron

Smash the State/Barry McGee/SF City Hall

This is 7 months late, but here it is anyway. San Francisco does it again when San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez gets Mr. McGee to do a piece in his City Hall office.

Orse RIP