Microsoft’s new web design — the bad and the good
Saw on Daring Fireball that Microsoft is previewing its new global website (link). Naturally, I wondered “Where the heck did the global gateway go?” It used to be in the …
Month: June 2012
For the love of typewriters
Awhile back I printed up a batch of typewriter notecards based on a typewriter I had rescued years ago. It turns out a lot people love these notecards, so we …
Mongolia joins the IDN club with .мон
ICANN has approved Mongolia’s IDN application. Here’s a one-page list of all approved IDNs — a list that now includes 30 countries/territories. IDNs are laying the groundwork for a revolution …
The problem with the Internet is that it’s too global…
From an interesting (and concerning) CircleID post by Milton Mueller: Three Chinese engineers are proposing a way to alter Internet standards to partition the Internet into autonomously administered national networks, using …
ICANN strikes domain name gold (updated)
The registration period for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), names like .google and .nyc, has been open for a short while and it appears that ICANN has won the lottery. According …
Looking for a translation icon?
If you haven’t visited the Noun Project yet, take a moment and drop by. It’s a great initiative to provide open source icons. All you have to do is provide …
Money talks (in many languages)
It’s no secret that the US has been on a borrowing binge for quite some time. So when the US launched its redesigned $100 bill last year, the Fed went …