Grids are a designers best friend. Trusting, working with, and breaking the grid are all things that you should be familiar with if you are doing communication design. In most graphics programs it is easy to set this up and there are many different ways to do it. When working with the web, though, there are not as many commonly known tools to achieve the pixel perfect results that you want.
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I’m not an active user of Facebook web pages. I don’t have the time or interest to participate actively in the community, but I do take advantage of the Facebook network.
Without the events posted there by my friends, I would be locked inside for most of the month. Since I don’t want to log in to Facebook.com, I sought a way to get the events listed in iCal on my Powerbook. The solution is called (somewhat uninspired) fbCal, an application that lets you subscribe to your events to Google Calendar, Apple iCal, M$ Outlook, or Mozilla Sunbird.

Building on the work of kinetic installation artists such as Fischli & Weiss and makers of Japanese educational TV show Pitagora Suitchi, ClustaRack advertise their print media stacking product with a witty and slightly unbelievable video of a printshop Ruby Goldberg machine.
