Archive for September, 2007

In Portland, a Golden Age of Dining and Drinking

New York Times on P-town’s thriving restaurant scene.

NPR : Miracle Mystery Fruit Turns Sourness Sweet

“Lemons instantly turn from sour to sweet. Even a bologna sandwich turns to cake.”

Grid Layout - Javascript grid overlay

A flexible and easy way of overlaying grid columns on your design while coding it up. Helpful!

RegexPal: JavaScript Regex Tester

Handy.

SFGate Culture Blog: The Cinematic Orchestra coming to Bimbo’s

Oh damn, I’m totally going to this. Will be interesting to hear what they sound like live. Instrumentation: drums, double bass, piano, guitar, saxophone, laptop and voice.

Vintage Oregon - The Willamette Valley is becoming a wine country destination unto itself

Hey, Willamette Valley in the news. Covered in the SF Chronicle for its rising reputation in the wine world.

Fallingwater

Beautifully done virtual fly through of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. Makes me want to visit it. Wonder how precise a recreation it is - did he grab topo maps of the site?

Pasta&Vinegar ยป (Lovely) street hacking

Continuing the cute street art theme. Apparently (pedestrian?) traffic lights are mounted chest-height in Lyon, France.

Roadsworth (Monoscope)

Tom says this is “far too clever” and I agree. Unexpected!