DeliberatePixel

Have today's directors lost their signature visual styles? The fallacy of page zooming. I wish everyone would make up their minds about web font size. But this seems a fairly convincing argument. Now, someone sort out the HTML 4 vs XHTML thing so it can stop making my head hurt...

Tales from writer/actress Nia Vardalos: "Lately, I've been in meetings regarding a new script idea I have. A studio executive asked me to change the female lead to a male, because... 'women don't go to movies.'" A collection of great film noir movie posters...

I finally got tired of working on a new site design, so we're calling this version 5. If you're getting this via RSS, you might want to hop over to the site and check it out. There will be a couple more tweaks over the next day or so, but that's all...

This is what happens when I let the blog go on auto-pilot as it's been for the past few months - I miss reporting important news such as the announcement of a forthcoming new live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. My sincerest apologies...

Must see: Exhibits from the C.F. Kane Museum. Users place more weight on design. Hey, guess what? Turns out gender gap in maths driven by social factors, not biological differences. Imagine that! Is Pixar the perfect model for the new studio system...

Lessons for girls. (Via Thus Spake Zuska.) 8 layout solutions to improve your designs. Why this site is not available on the Kindle. On the girl front, there's everything from pink Ouija boards to lady candy bars. High-five to the girls who won the Intel science fair...

The Princess and the Frog and the Critical Gaze. From Racialicious, a meditation on race and Disney princesses. Sorry, everyone - science proves vampires could not possibly exist. Unless it's all a evil scientific conspiracy, which, let's be honest, we can't disprove, can we...

Two of this blog's favorite topics - film and design - get to dance around merrily together with the news that director Gary Hustwit, of Helvetica fame, is coming to Columbus to introduce his documentary on industrial design this Friday, May 15, at 7 PM at the Wexner Center...

"The President [Reagan] was mentioning my name the other day, and I kind of got to wondering what his favorite album must have been. I don’t think it was the Nebraska album." Revisiting Springsteen's Nebraska. Are you a zombie? Or would you like to be one? At least briefly? In Columbus, Ohio...

Another Tumblr theme for y'all: Firecracker. Let me know if you give it a try, and if there are any issues with it. In case you missed it, my first Tumblr theme, based on this current site layout, is downloadable as the Deliberatepixel theme.

Somehow, I've managed to attract quite the crowd of followers on Twitter. So many, in fact, that I thought you all deserve a primer on exactly what you've signed yourself up for. Drop slips will be available at the end of the post...

Ten things to read on the 50th anniversary of Raymond Chandler's death. Diana Eng, from Project Runway Season 2, has written a book about tech-hacking clothes called Fashion Geek. Raquelle of the classic film blog Out of the Past lists the upcoming movies for TCM's Norma Shearer week...

Throughout today, the 24th of March, thousands of people will be blogging, tweeting, vlogging and just generally talking about Ada Lovelace. If you're curious as to why because you're not sure who she is, reading this will help...

A riot grrl era retrospective from the Guardian. A look at the past and current careers of David and Jennifer Lynch. Cinematical posted a clip from the upcoming, Wiley-Wiggins-featuring film, Sorry, Thanks, soon to hit SXSW. A tale of sound recording, The Magnificent Ambersons and Orson Welles...

Design is no place for democracy. Chasing Ray's essay on abandoned homes: "There are dying cities, dead neighborhoods and then those places that never even were...

Congratulations, Columbus. You finally accumulated enough internet weirdness for me to compile a new edition of Best of Columbus Craigslist...

The best actors never to be nominated for an Oscar. Kudos for putting my favorite underrated actor - Joseph Cotten - at the top of the list. Although how can you mention his work without mentioning The Third Man...

So since I'm kind of already a Cleveland International Film Festival cheerleader, I decided to make it official and become a titled Film Ambassador. And in my new "official" capacity, I would like to invite you to the Columbus preview party on March 6 at the Wexner Center...

I had thought for a while about turning the current DP design into a WordPress theme, but because my love affair with Tumblr has since blossomed, and because I've actually received a couple of requests for just such a Tumblr theme, I went that route instead...

A fabulous list by Matthew Baldwin of mindf*ck movies. While Muholland Drive would be my Lynch pick as well, I recommend also checking out Inland Empire, specifically for mindf*ck purposes. Amish hackers - mythbusting the Amish and their complicated relationship with technology...

10 things a web designer would never tell you. The Guardian talks to Mad Men's Vincent Kartheiser. His character, Pete Campbell, stealthily crept into my favorite character position last season. Chef Michael Ruhlman has some things to say about natural foods and anti-bacterial America. Horrifying...

Kevin Kelly suggests that borrowing is better than owning. FourthWaveFeminism looks at boy-fronted girl bands. Documentary filmmaker Louis Abelman compares Twitter to cinema vérité...

A couple of weeks back, I hit Pittsburgh to meet up with fellow Skepchicks Maria and Elyse, along with atheist activist and vlogger Ashley, whom I brought along with me from Columbus, and a whole bunch of great Steel City skeptics, including Laura (who so awesomely made most of the arrangements for...

RIP Ray Dennis Steckler: the beloved (well, by me, at least) B movie director passed away last week. I think the occasion calls for a fresh viewing of MST3K's take on The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies in his honor...

I'm not very well versed on the whole Twilight phenomenon, but I'm also pretty sure I don't have to be in order to fully grasp what's it about...

From Maura at Idolator: why 'women in rock' stories will never be considered for my lists of best music writing. The Mid-Century Modernist features a collection of motel room postcards of the 1950's and 60's. Neat item of the week: An Apple a Day letterpress poster. Evolution books for children...

I’ve mainly stayed away from the discussion of gender issues in technology. I didn’t think that I had any real expertise to share. But over the last six months, after many conversations, it has become clear that many of my female friends in tech really do feel disempowered...

Fimoculous's 30 most notable blogs of 2008. Noir City 7, a festival for all things film noir, is set to take place in San Francisco January 23 - February 1 2009. From Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon: Anti-vaccine = anti-feminist? Cinematical's worst MPAA ratings of 2008. Web design sketchbook. Neat...

This is not exactly the type of list you might think it is. Most people, when writing about their top films of a certain year, reasonably confine themselves to writing about films that actually premiered in that year...

Pink Raygun's 2008 edition of top 100 fiction femmes of genre film and television...

Wishing all my readers and their families happy holidays. Thanks for your comments, submitted links and news, and for just generally hanging around. It's super cool of you...