web 2.0 photoshop styles

Ultimate Web 2.0 Layer Styles – Free Download
these are pretty nice, i’ve been using them the past hour or two.
how to make your own, by the way.

desktop wallpaper of a douglas adams quote

isn’t it enough to see the garden is beautiful, without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

kickstarting electric sheep

a few months ago, i download electric sheep, a free screensaver for mac. unfortunately, months later, anytime i try to load the screensaver, it continues to tell me to please wait, the first sheep is loading. hours later i come back and it’s saying the same thing, so i just gave up.
but tonight [...]

nice free flexible width template

i like this flexible width, free, open source website template from opendesigns.org, which i just discovered. there are some not so good looking free templates on that site, but there are a surprising number of not so bad ones. this particular one has potential. unfortunately, i am a very good visual designer, [...]

color brewer: color guide for creating maps

this is pretty interesting. i’ve created maps twice now, and this might’ve been handy in those two instances. this is a tool someone named cynthia brewer developed for people who design maps. i like the fact that it takes into consideration how people who are colorblind can view the map, if it’s [...]