I have Wood for Sheep

Catan Live

Settlers of Catan, my favorite board game of all time is coming to xbox live this week! I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am about this. My coworker Kelly also has a 360, so I’m sure I’ll be playing with him. Unfortunately, like almost every xbox live title, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have any local multiplayer, so I’ll need to talk all my other friends with 360s into buying the game, too.

For those who don’t get the title – the game involves lots of trading, and two of the resources you trade are wood and sheep. It’s easy to confuse people by saying something like “Who will trade wood for sheep?” and have two people hand each other wood, both thinking the other was offering sheep. So we’ve learned to use a more formalized phrase “I have X for Y” – which leads to the juvenile humor you see evidenced here. It’s a great game, really.

How Web Standards Made a Better Site for LP

LP Style Refresh

What started as a simple project with LP to redesign their top-level landing pages quickly grew to encompass their entire site. This brought with it some surprising logistical difficulties, which the Pop Art team overcame through clever use of web standards. The end result is a new look applied across the entire site, with the increased accessibility and search-engine optimization that comes from a web standards solution.

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It Wasn't My Fault

“It wasn’t my fault! Really it wasn’t! An old friend came in out of town! The car ran out of gas! I got a flat tire! I didn’t have enough money for cab fare! The tux didn’t come back from the cleaners! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! IT WASN’T MY FAULT I SWEAR TO GOD!!!”
– Jake Blues, The Blues Brothers

First Annual Web Design Survey

“People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession.”

A List Apart is hosting the first annual Web Design Survey in an effort to learn more about the people in the web design profession – presumably so we can have more efficient debates in the future about why there aren’t more women and minorities in web design. If you work in the web design industry, you should be taking this survey.