Elsewhere, 12/19

Dave Shea has redesigned Mezzoblue, taking a number of cues from magazine design: …I took a lot of cues from magazine design when putting together this site. The layout, typography, and photo-derived colour schemes owe their existence to flipping through back issues of some of my favourite cooking mags. Via

Wired’s has a “First Look” at the new Photoshop CS3 beta, complete with screenshots. I’ve been so busy lately I haven’t been able to check it out for myself, maybe over the holidays.

Roger Johansson lists 10 must-have features for the next version of IE: Some of us had great hopes for Internet Explorer 7. We were hoping that it would offer great support for Web standards, perhaps even on par with that of the leaders in the Web browser arena. Our hopes were slowly smothered as IE 7 moved from beta-beta to real-beta to release-candidate to release version. I hope those folks in Redmond are paying attention.

The Bible Experience is a new audio recording of the New Testament that features a number of actors participating in the readings. The highlight? It has to be Samuel L. Jackson as God. An Old Testament version is in the works, with plans to release it next fall. Christianity Today has more details.

Cover Browser brings you the worst album covers of all time. Some of these are oldies but goodies, and some are brand new (at least to me). All of them are simply awful, insipid, disturbing, tasteless, and/or ugly (and maybe NSFW). Via

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