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The Garrard 401 + Lignolab Plinth + SME 3012 + Denon 301R combo was 1 year in the making. It sounds so beautiful, you’d be amazed. Yes, it’s a record player. Call me antiquated.

It’s good to see I’m not the only one feeling that most CSS frameworks are missing the point. SenCSS really is a nice starting point for getting a site’s CSS going - especially for those starting out with CSS, SenCSS would be a dream.

SenCSS was developed mostly for myself. I noticed that the stuff common to most of my designs and projects wasn’t the layout, and thus all layout CSS frameworks had very little use for me (I’d be writing exceptions all day, no thanks!). However, There was a lot to gain from a smarter CSS Reset, vertical rhythm and a set of often used styles. Basically I wanted something that i could drop it, start working on my layout and fine tune when the layout was finished.

Introducing SenCSS | KilianValkhof.com

Chris Prillio enthusiastically links us to “Secrets” a nice prefpane to get at hidden app settings.

• What does your garbage can of failed motivations look like?
• I hope Ze Frank writes a book some day.
• John Dyer growing every type of beard.

• [via Secret Experiment]

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• Design Is In The Details

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  Advanced Beauty from mate on Vimeo.

  I found this somewhere and can not remember where. I’m sorry.

• Timoni is a super talented designer. Watch out.
• I can not wait till Spore comes out, until then, checkout the Creature Creator!
• The Ampersand Masters Thesis
• The live Firefox 3 download counter.

So, is it an urban legend? Or not? Can you boil an egg or pop popcorn with cellphones?

It seems the verdict is out:

• Poppping Popcorn with Cellphones [via laughingsquid]
• urban legends via about.com
• Cell phones cook eggs, and your brain?

For the first time in my life, that I can remember, Amazon is unreachable.

Can you remember the last time Amazon was down for the count?

I’m so late to the geekfest that is Battlestar Galactica. I was a bit weary, as I always am to the clichés of geekdom. But I finally gave in. And all I have to say, is: BSG fraking rocks!

If you are gonna start watching, start with the three hour miniseries.

And, check out these links:

• Everything you were afraid to ask about “Battlestar Galactica”
• Battlestar Galactica (TV miniseries)
• Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)
• Episode Guide

How do you get those fancy hearts, or other unicode characters, without going to the character palette?

Add the Unicode Hex Input via the International System Preference pane and then hold down shift-alt and type in your unicode character code. shift-alt-2665 is the solid black heart.

NASA has some nifty navigation taking place on their homepage. Something similar to what my friend Basil crow coded for Brown University

This has been what my entire year was like: