It comes up more and more that dynamic web page features should offer visual hints to site visitors that “this process may take a moment, please wait”.  Enter the spinning, bouncing, hypnotizing animated GIF commonly called “a throbber”.  There have been multiple sites in the past that have served as libraries for commonly used throbbers on the web.  But this one is different.  The nice thing about this one is that it can alter the background colors of the animated GIF you choose to suit the need at hand.

Bookmark this one FED’s!  Designers too - designers should be providing FED’s visually fitting “themes” for dynamic behavor, like throbbers.  This web tool should help.

Awesome – Old footage of Steve Jobs speaking about his experience working with Paul Rand (who designed the Next logo):
http://paul-rand.com/video_stevejobs_interview.shtml

My favorite part: “I asked him if he would come up with a few options, and he said, “No. I will solve your problem for you, and you will pay me. And you don’t have to use the solution, if you want options go talk to other people. But I’ll solve your problem for you the best way I know how, and you use it or not, that’s up to you – your the client, but you pay me.” Well stated.

Also, be sure to check out this interview with Rand himself:
http://paul-rand.com/video_conversationWithPaulRand.shtml

Definitely worth checking out this online app for exploring and creating color palettes:
COPASO

As part of a coding challenge, Mathieu ‘p01′ Henri wrote a never ending animation of a Sierpiński carpet using canvas techniques (for browsers that support the tag) and Javascript.  This is not Flash.

A friend showed me this hidden develop menu that can be activated through Safari similar to that of the firefox web developer toolbar. You have to activate it through the Terminal Application. (applications ->utilities ) Enter in the following:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

To hide the menu again, just enter the following:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 0

Enjoy.

Read more at macosxhints.com.

2006 Buell Firebolt will appear in the movie as Arcee - a female motorcycle from the original movie.

Full story here

Amazon is having LOTS of problems today - their S3 service (and store) have been nothing but errors for over an hour now.
http://blog.linkdiagnosis.com/?p=16

“The latest browser market share data is in, and Safari has hit 6.22%, breaking 6% for the first time. Last month’s share was 5.81%, so this is a significant increase. It was only nine months ago that Safari broke 5%. Safari market share has now almost tripled from 2.14% in June 2005, when the WebKit Open Source project launched.”

http://webkit.org/blog/188/safari-hits-622-market-share/