Via Yahoo News.

I’ve been steadily work­ing on a new web design project which will even­tu­ally become a custom Word­Press tem­plate. In the design process I’ve slowly man­aged to amass sev­eral browser win­dows full of tabs of related things that I was look­ing at for inspi­ra­tion on the site.

Safari is get­ting pretty slow with all of those tabs so I kind of needed to do a com­plete dump of the tabs. With­out fur­ther ado, here are the links (for my ben­e­fit as much as yours).

Wireframes

• Build­ing a Web­site Wire­frame in Illus­tra­tor
• Why You Should Create a Wire­frame First
• Wire­fram­ing With InDe­sign and Illus­tra­tor
• Wire­fram­ing Part II: Illus­tra­tor Basics

CSS Galleries

• CSSelite.com
• CSS Drive (This site appears to be down as of writ­ing this)

WordPress Themes (Inspiration)

• The­me­For­est
• WP Glam­our
• Cellar Heat: A Free Word­Press Theme

Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials

• Create a Vibrant Modern Blog Design in Pho­to­shop
• Grunge Border
• Quickly Add Grunge To Text
• Illus­tra­tor Tuto­ri­als

Other Stuff

• Adobe Kuler
• 960 Grid System
• How to: CSS Large Back­ground
• Word­Press Developer’s Tool­box
• Remov­ing Cat­e­gory Base from Word­Press URLs

A very elo­quent endorse­ment of Sen­a­tor Barack Obama for pres­i­dent from The New Yorker. You might want to get a cup of coffee and settle in before reading.

As I’m sure most foot­ball fans in New Eng­land are already aware, Tom Brady’s season is over. It was announced today, a day after he suf­fered a painful-​looking shot to his left knee, that he will undergo surgery and miss the remain­der of the season. ESPN has a full report on the story.

The mood in Boston is sour. My mood is sour. I so should have taken my roommate’s advice when draft­ing my fan­tasy league play­ers. She rec­om­mended not draft­ing my favorite team’s play­ers because if in the unlikely event they got injured (or played poorly), I would be doubly upset. I politely dis­agreed and drafted Tommy.

There are only two pos­i­tive things I can come up with regard­ing this dis­as­trous injury:

1. Matt Cassel played sur­pris­ingly well. He didn’t screw up once. ¹
2. I drafted Eli Man­ning as my second quar­ter­back. I get the best of both worlds here. If he man­ages to play well then my fan­tasy team will do well and I’ll be happy. If he man­ages to play very poorly, I’ll cackle and be happy.

Look­ing on the bright side, there are a lot of great play­ers on the Patri­ots team, even if they are a little long in the tooth. If every­body does their part, and maybe a little more, the team still might manage a descent season if Cassel can just keep the ball safe. There have been plenty of NFL teams that have done alright with lack­lus­ter quar­ter­backs. *Cough* Giants. Bears.

I sup­pose we’ll have to wait and see what hap­pens. For now, I’m very sad about season that I was so excited for. I didn’t expect the Patri­ots to be fan­tas­tic this year, but I was excited nev­er­the­less. Hope­fully the team can rally around the new play caller and still make a run at the play­offs. I think this will be Cassel’s last shot to make some­thing out of his NFL career. Hope­fully he does well.

1. Although even this is some­what depress­ing; the best I can say about him is that he didn’t screw up. I also thought that he was helped by the offen­sive line play­ing good and a great run­ning game that was absent the entire pre­sea­son.↩

For the past week or two The Daily WTF has been reis­su­ing older clas­sic sto­ries. I’ve been really enjoy­ing these gems. Today’s story is about a bright idea that Microsoft had to begin asking brain­teaser ques­tions during job inter­views to see how the inter­vie­wees responded. A silly ques­tion always deserves a sill answer:

During a screen­ing inter­view, I was asked how I would design a bike fit for some­one visu­ally impaired. I responded some­thing to the effect of, “What, like, for blind people?”, and she answered yes.

I thought for a moment and then I responded, “Well.. a blind person riding a bike doesn’t sound like a very safe idea, so I would make the bike sta­tion­ary, maybe with a fan blow­ing in the person’s face. He prob­a­bly wouldn’t even know the difference.”

She was speechless.

So bad. Although, if I was asked a sim­i­lar ridicu­lous ques­tion in an inter­view I would prob­a­bly react by think­ing of the most sar­cas­tic response I could. Good thing I already have a job.