CSS: Bullet

I've been working on some pages to demonstrate CSS Typography techniques. Most of them are harmless enough. Here is the first, a simple CSS Bullet. A second is Goodnight, Moon. I'll post more by and by. For now, a lot of them work well in Firefox and Opera but are destroyed in Internet Explorer, because they use some fixed positioning and pseudo elements to generate visual text effects.

Much inspiration from CSS: Destroy!



Peanuts Characters transformed as Marvel Superheroes. This one is an adaptation of the cover of Amazing Spiderman #50. Here is the metafilter post. The link to the site where the artwork resides won't work anymore.

Conan O' Brien as THE MOLECULAR MAN!

And to all the Bloggers typing away in their lonely rooms: I wish you a Merry, Merry Christmas, and a New Microsoft Windows Vista Operating System that will treat you very gently, and will not require many, many patches in the coming months of 2007, and beyond...

Seeing Red

Seeing Red via Netdiver

Type, Eurostyle: The European Type Design Directory

I can't get enough of this. I really can't. Scared of Santa via Metafilter

Ultraphone Update!

Can't get enough ULTRAPHONE? I just received an e-mail from John Gilly, the man who sent me the picture of the ULTRAPHONE, which turns out to be a kind of early CB radio. Here's the content of his second e-mail:

Craig,

The pic of the Ultraphone was part of a PowerPoint presentation that was done for the Rochester Amateur Radio Association on the history of VHF radio operation. The actual Ultraphone is an exhibit in the Antique Wireless Association Museum in East Bloomfield N.Y. It was essentially the predecessor of the modern CB radio. At one time (pre- WW2) there was a UHF frequency allocation for the citizens radio service. It was up around 450MHz (where, ironically, the little FRS walkie talkies are today). At that time everything operated on tubes and was AM instead of FM. There was no channelization so two users had to "dial around" to "find" each other on the air. An even earlier version of the Ultraphone was the Abbot TR-4 "Ultra-High Frequency Receiver/Transmitter" (pic attached) manufactured on the planet Cleveland in the galaxy Ohio (as Devo would say). I found your site (and read some of the short fiction) when I "Googled" Ultraphone on the web.

This is one of the reasons I am so fond of the world wide web: (There is no Internet anymore, people. Anything you view on a web page is part of the world wide web, not the Internet, which technically may still exist, but if it does, it is a very small phenomena) The rich, wide fields of (sometimes useless, but interesting) DATA!

Ultraphones Throughout History!

Who knew? Before I invented the ULTRAPHONE, there were ULTRAPHONES a plenty! I still don't know what the first image represents, though it was sent to me, unsolicited, by someone who apparently works for Kodak.




I did not know this: There were German and French record labels with the names Ultraphone and/or Ultraphon, but a search has revealed little information besides graphics. A close up of an ULTRAPHON records jacket.




The ULTRAPHONE gramaphone. It looks kinda cool.




Website of the modern Russian ULTRAPHONE. Definitely NOT as cool as classic ULTRAPHONES. Probably contains KGB listening devices.