Best Of CSS Design 2007: a list of 50 websites hand-picked from the Best Web Gallery. Good to see Webstock, Veerle’s Blog, and the more minimal I love typography making the list. Redesigning in 2008? This is the place to find some inspiration. +

Are You a Highway Hero or a Hang Back Zero?: an interesting on take on brand development at The Marketing Fresh Peel. But is it really development… or is it more like following the crowd?

They [companies and brands] fear the risks associated with entering new territory and speeding ahead so they let someone else do it instead. The mentality is that “it will be safer if we just wait and react when we see things happening in the marketplace.”

An interesting point of view. But aren’t a lot of people doing something because “everyone else” is? Your thoughts please. +

Cera Perdida: Tanya Sierra is a Barcelona based sculpture artist who this year created a different work each month and then left it somewhere in Barcelona for someone to find. Via Coolstop. +

Earliest galaxies had building blocks of life: so we may not be alone in the cosmos, and may have in fact had “company” for the last 500 million years.

The universe might have been hospitable for life 500 million years earlier than we thought, according to researchers at the University of Texas in Austin.

Maybe then we’re like the next generation of life in the universe… +

Exposed: another fiendish way to make money on the web: It seems the humble image alt attribute may be some giving some advertisers a leg up in the search engine rankings. This could be opening a whole new can of worms I fear… +