There's a new, faster lake-crossing ferry, traveling from Milwaukee to Muskegon in 2 1/2 hours. The Trib has a story with some history of lake-crossing ferries.
Me3dia has moved on to a better place. It can't be beat.
Chicago Wilderness Site Finder "Search for sites that you can visit in Chicago Wilderness by selecting a site name, activity, amenity, site type, and/or county. "
John Woo will be in Chicago on June 12 to receive the Gene Siskel Film Center’s inaugural Visionary Award. Link found on Chicagoist, our newest local newsblog. I agree with them, he needs to makes more movies like Killer, and Bullet in the Head, Or at least release those and his other bullet-riddled classics on DVD (in our region).
Some design blogs I should be paying attention to.
Authentic Boredom Including some great how-to's.
And of course the mother of all design blogs - kaliber10000
KiloGhits and megaGhits: measuring web frequency "A measurement in Ghits will be by definition a count of the number of web pages returned by a search pattern "
Why Blogs Matter "Using the Google API, I've been tracking the position of Blogs vs Traditional Media on a range of different queries for a number of months. The visualizations below, crafted with DHTML, portray a set of related queries." The conclusion? "blogs matter because users encounter them in high ranking positions in web searches".
Conversion from Pantone to RGB to Hex HTML I would suggest copying this page and saving it locally before the Pantone lawyers descend and shut it down.
Blog Software Breakdown "This chart displays attributes of different user-installed blog software packages side-by-side for comparison. " I'm presently looking for a new CMS myself. My requirements - free, installed on my choice of server, categories, photo upload feature, support for managing multiple-blogs with multiple authors, some sort of comment spam control or at least a fast way to delete them, no more God-damn "Out of memory during "large" request for 528384 bytes, total sbrk() is 8338392 bytes at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/sun4-solaris/DB_File.pm line 252" errors!