Quiddities to appear at upcoming Drupal meeting

via email from Tao Starbow, Webnet

Greetings Berkeley Druplers,

Our next meeting will be Thursday, September 27th, Noon-1:30pm at 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley (note the change of day from our usual Wednesday time slot).

This month: Developing Drupal Sites at UC Berkeley

Rob and Tracy, from Quiddities are going to talk about the sites they have developed at UCB (including the College of Arts[sic] and Science), the trials and tribulations of Drupal and the campus bureaucracy, and the CalNet authentication module they have been developing.

Also, the Bay Area Drupal Camp is coming to UC Berkeley in November. Register now.

Update: Rob & Tracy will not be talking about CalNet, but [Tao] will give a summary of the status of Rob Barreca's calnet.module (which is currently in at BigIdeas.berkeley.edu) and [] an overview of the steps needed to get a 5.x compatible release

Dr. Copperplate and Mr. Gothic

via Daring Fireball

Like many of us (I hope), I look back on much of my early graphic design—or, to tell the truth, desktop publishing (gasp!)—career with varying degrees of sheepishness and downright embarrassment. My greatest regrets: bad layouts and bad typography.

I used to chalk up my clunky typography to the clunky fonts at my disposal when a Macintosh IIfx, LaserWriter II, and PageMaker 3 were the high-end tools of the DTP trade: Avant Garde, Bookman, Courier, Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook, Palatino, Symbol, Times, Zapf Dingbats and Zapf Chancery. Later, I blamed my failure with Lithos on MTV’s beating of that typeface into the ground. Then, a long stint with what is now the US’s largest commercial bank left me irrationally angry at Futura Bold.

But, after reading through Armin Vit’s “Dr. Copperplate and Mr. Gothic”—a considerate view of Copperplate (another one of my font nemeses)—I’ve had to rethink the issues I’ve had with all the fonts in the past.

Maybe I just suck at setting type.

Attractive… Charts?

via Smashing Magazine via popurls

Do you use Flash? (Me: A little.) Do you design charts? (Me: Sometimes.) Do you design dynamic charts in Flash? (Me: Wow, I never thought of doing that.)

And, with my mediocre Flash skills, I would never attempt making a dynamic chart in Flash.

Enter amCharts, the work of a seemingly lone, Lithuanian Flash developer. I won’t go into the details—Smashing Magazine already did: Attractive Online Diagrams, Charts And Maps. When you’re done reading about it, you can go to amCharts and download away.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended for Apple iPhone

via Daring Fireball

(It’s not Friday, but it’s never too early for something fun, right?)

I don’t have Photoshop CS3 and I don’t have an iPhone. I hope someday to have both… but together?

A year of speakers on art, technology, and culture begins tonight

The first installment in this year's speaker program — "The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium," sponsored by UC Berkeley's Center for New Media — begins tonight.

Tonight's performance: Trevor Paglen explores state secrecy and the geography of nowhere.

7:30 – 9 p.m.
160 Kroeber Hall

For more information, see:
• Secret CIA Prisons in Your Backyard
• KQED's Spark* feature on Trevor in April 2006
• Trevor's bio

Atkinson Photographic Archive

The Atkinson Photographic Archive provides access to high-res photos of campus buildings for University of California-related purposes.

Note: Photo quality varies. Please read copyright instructions before using.

Photograph © 2003 by Alan Nyiri, courtesy of the Atkinson Photographic Archive.

Free! Fonts!

via Smashing Magazine via popurls

Smashing Magazine is linking to six free (!) fonts and we’re linking to Smashing Magazine. I don’t know if you’d want to change the body copy of your entire newsletter-brochure-what-have-you to any of these free (!) typefaces, but any of them would work as a display face. Remember, “If it’s free, take one. If it’s free and not so good, take two.”

Book production basics

per BBW e-mail:

Bookbuilders West Presents:
Annual Crash Course in Book Production Basics 2007

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Registration: 8:15 - 8:45 am
Presentations: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Grosvenor Hotel, 380 So. Airport Blvd., So. San Francisco, CA
See below for directions or phone (650) 873-3200

$75.00 Members | $65 For members with 4 or more attendees |
$95.00 Non-members

Register Now!
This course provides an introductory overview of the entire book publishing production process including editing, design, composition, art and photo preparation for 1-, 2-, and 4-color printing, binding, and paper selection. Interested in learning about new media technologies? Information about creating various media projects in conjunction with print projects will be addressed as well.

Lunch and course materials will be provided.

Registration Deadline: October 4th, 2007
(No refunds or cancellations; substitutions are welcome.)

If you have questions about registration or payment, please contact Mike Johnson by sending email to MJohnson@edwardsbrothers.com, or calling 951-587-8728.

For your weekend enjoyment...

via YouTube:



Groovy, man. Gotta love those Swedes.

Ahhh, oooh... Point well taken.

Oooh, ahhh... The new iPod touch