Archive for June, 2008

delessio market and bakery

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

The next time I head to San Francisco, I plan to make a stop at DeLessio's Market for the chocolate bubble wrap. Felchlin Felcor chocolate mixed with everything from cocoa nibs to peanut butter, then poured over bubble wrap (or so I hear, it's probably a mold). They have hundreds of reviews on Yelp, so that's probably where I heard about it.

I love chocolate, so anything new also catches my eye.

banksy uk

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Banksy is an incredible UK graffiti artist whose work challenges social norms. Everything he does, including indoor graffiti and pen-and-ink drawings, is thought-provoking, often funny, many times sad and truly inspired.

I came across information on him after reading an article on the BBC News, looked up his website and proceeded to bookmark it in my "interesting" folder.

mcsweeney's

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Honestly, I don't even know how to explain McSweeney's, but I've had McSweeney's Recommends bookmarked for ages. It's hysterical and loads of fun and weird and just everything you could ever want in a website built for wasting time. :)

cabel's javascript fancy zoom gallery

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

I have probably 20 links for different ways of displaying photo galleries on websites… Flash, javascript, plain CSS, etc., and one of my recent favorites is Cabel's Fancy Zoom. Using Javascript and CSS he's created a beautifully styled photo gallery that's incredibly easy to execute.

I'm not a big fan of Flash—bad SEO, doesn't work on old browsers, etc.—so a Flash-looking javascript gallery is exactly what I'd bookmark.

the city church website, all hail css

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Back when I originally started doing a lot of CSS design, I found The City Church website via CSSBeauty.com (I think). It's a beautifully designed website, all CSS, clean and contemporary. In the beginning, I often looked to their code to identify how their tabs came out and how they managed to make the site look incredible even on IE.

I believe I found this URL about two years ago, and it resides in my Site Examples folder.

go go curry usa

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

An article on Wired led me to the website for Go Go Curry USA. Apparently Japanese curry is a killer dish (definitely one I've never heard of) and it was this paragraph that sold me…

I love Japan's curry in the same way that a heroin addict loves shooting up. The only significant difference between the two is that eventually, if you stop doing heroin long enough, you are no longer addicted to it. Japanese curry addiction does not leave you even when you move back home. You just spend your days wishing you could eat it again, saving your money so you can fly back to Tokyo and eat more.

So I bookmarked Go Go Curry, and it's in my food travel folder, so I know when I'm looking to head to NYC, it's a place I need to visit.