The Time Machine: first there was the The Internet Archive, or WayBack Machine, which currently stores snapshots of some 85 billion web pages. Now Internet Archive creator, Brewster Kahle, has an even bigger goal in mind:

“We’re out to help build the Library of Alexandria version 2, starting with humankind’s published works, books, music, video, web pages, software, and make it available to everyone anywhere at anytime, and forever.”

I look forward to perusing the collected works of disassociated.com in years to come! +

How to Size Text in CSS: by Richard Rutter. At a recent shindig I met a “web designer” whose sole focus was creating style sheets. No interface design. No hard coding or markup, just pure, 100 per cent, CSS.

And the way things are going, it seems website typography will likewise become a specialist area of web design.

There’s been a welcome resurgence of interest in web typography over the past year or so, with many articles and conference talks offering techniques and theory.

Ok, beat me to the punch, who already works as a specialist website typographer? +

What to Do When You’re Fresh Out of Ideas: although written more with bloggers in mind, Anthony’s post may be just the tonic anyone working in any sort of creative endeavour needs from time to time. +

Timing is everything for AdSense man: Rex Wong the creator of the web’s favourite ad system, Adsense, which he sold to Google for $US102 million in 2003, is in Australia this week talking about his latest project DAVE.TV. Online TV and video… wonder if that will as big a hit as Adsense?! +

War has historic links to global climate change: this is as interesting as it is disturbing:

Climate change and conflict have gone hand-in-hand for the past 500 years, a study reveals.

Global warming leads to food and resource shortages, which leads to social unrest and tension, with results in violent conflict. +