Monthly Interesting Links Roundup (May 2009)

By Johan Douma

Here’s for May. Enjoy!

There’s some really cool business card ideas here:
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/100-really-creative-business-cards/

Line length misconception. Should pages really be 65 chars long?
http://www.viget.com/advance/the-line-length-misconception/

The new experimental Theora codec (native support in Firefox, Opera and Safari) can be, in some cases, better than x264 at 128 kbits and higher.
http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/theora/demo7.html
Of course it’s not native in IE, otherwise I’d select it as a good FLV replacement.
As soon as IE supports it, support for Theora will be higher than Flash.
Of course, I suspect it was encoded in H264 using the default settings, but with custom settings in Theora. Why am I so skeptical?

Daily Motion and Wikipedia now use theora/ogg and the video tag in browsers that support it instead of using flash:
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090527006237&newsLang=en
DailyMotion is in the top50 most visited sites, so it is going mainstream…

Youtube started testing it. Check it out here:
http://www.youtube.com/html5
Although it didn’t seem to work on my Firefox just yet

Before it’s fully supported, we might try to use this Online Media Player, instead of jw’s player
http://www.adobe.com/products/strobe/

Michael Lynton, CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainement: ‘There’s not anything good having come from Internet’
http://current.com/items/90049647_sony-pictures-ceo-im-a-guy-who-doesnt-see-anything-good-having-come-from-the-internet-period.htm
LOL, what a joke

Bored? Buy this and have fun:
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/6468/jas-bhachu-rubiks-cube-font-generator.html

Crazy Tetris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwC544Z37qo

Another iStock competitor:
http://www.clustershot.com/

It’s not like paper, aka some other things that could be used in website design
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/maximize-the-use-of-hover/

Nuf said. 5 Years from now and foundries are going to be in deep shit.
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/04/21/fuck-the-foundries

Free font Sites are popping up all over the place (FREE for commercial use too, no need to give credit in any way):
http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/files
http://www.fontex.org/
http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/
http://www.larabiefonts.com/
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/index.htm
And of course:
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

Nice paper art:
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/100-extraordinary-examples-of-paper-art/

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