A t-shirt for the type obsessed to wear with pride. HEL fuckin VETICA – yeah! Dig just a little deeper into the Wire & Twine site to find some wonderful one of a kind items by Kelly Deal of the band Breeders Digest. If you knit and you tour with a band, or even if you don’t… tour, you might want to take a look at Kelly’s new book Bags That Rock, knitting on the road with Kelly Deal. If you do spend a lot of time on a tour bus you might also need to some some stretching, so pick up Barbara Templeton’s Complete Idiot’s Guide to Stretching at the same time you pick up Kelly Deal’s book on Amazon.
German publisher Eichborn pulled off a great stunt at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. 200 fly’s, each towing a miniature banner, let loose to buzz the attendees. Watch the video. I’m going to go wash my hands…
The High Line is just around the corner from our offices, currently located in the Chelsea Market, and I finally made my way there for a walking tour. I shot a few photos while I was there but these pics from the High Line Flickr Pool provide a little more variety – but what’s up with the copyright on all these pics from the Flickr Pool. None of them have a Creative Commons license. None!
There’s more going on besides a walk on the High Line. Check out highline.org for events happening in and around the park.
Ideally, you should never see a 404 error page, but if you do, I hope it will be something interesting or entertaining. The 404 error occurs when a page is not found on a website. It’s mostly likely not due to any one of the mysterious server or Internet glitches that we blame everything else on. It’s because the web site owner has a link to a page that isn’t there. Maybe it used to be, or maybe it’s just a hastily typed link that they never tested.
Smashing Magazine has a nice 404 design gallery they posted back in January and Web Design Resources has a gallery as well. Better still, go discover some of your own. Here’s a couple I’ve found.
Failure is an option, or , how you fail has options. 404 pages are there because shit happens. Shit you didn’t plan. So make it a memorable failure. Something you can be proud of. Something that doesn’t look like a failure. Alternately, make it not-broken, have the page redirect to your home page, or make it a search page. Smashing Magazine’s solution is to direct you to their 404 Gallery. Just don’t make it a broken, boring, oh my God I fucked up page.
If you are using Wordpress with a decent theme, you should be able to customize your own 404 template easily. Just go to Dashboard -> Appearance -> Editor -> 404 Template.
You can see my 404 page by clicking here, or trying some odd URL of your own like… http://mediarosa.com/wtf.
