Some time ago I decided to stop buying anything Sony. I finally realized that everything I had ever bought that bore the brand Sony either stopped working properly or stopped working entirely. Whether it was a whacky WalkMan or a dingy DiskMan, Sony’s sordid sound machines always went on the fritz.
And then they go and […]
My design work is getting its spread on. I recently submitted a design for a contest held for a new blog engine. Typo is a new blog engine built on Ruby-on-Rails, and they needed more templates for new users to choose. Prizes included PowerBooks, iPods, hosting, and software. How can I turn down a chance […]
The Web Standards Project, or WaSP, created a test many moons ago that was meant to test web browsers. The Acid2 Test puts web browsers through a rigorous test of standards prowess.
The test basically has code that should only, by standards accounts, be rendered one way. Most of the code is very advanced HTML and […]
I’ve been meaning to re-purpose this site for a while. When I saw the CSS Reboot, I found my opportunity. This was finally a chance to update Bort’s Portal for 2005 (well, almost 2006).
Still a Portal?
No, not really. Bort’s Portal was conceived way back in 2000, back when portals, or web entry points, were all […]
All cell phones have horrible designs. They are ugly. They are far more complicated than they need to be. Have all the phone companies replaced their industrial design deparments with buzz-word laden salespeople? Does having MORE on a phone make it BETTER? More is never better. It’s just more.
Just create a phone that makes […]