PandEcats.com has an interesting tutorial on building your own cat tree - essential reading for anyone with cats, given the offensively inflated cost of mass-produced cat tree (over a hundred dollars for what amounts to MDF and carpet scraps? Rip-off!). I think about a project like this for our three kittens every time I walk past the overpriced examples in our local pet shop; now I feel inspired to get cracking on it.

I love Helvetica; I find it to be one of the most beautiful and diverse typefaces ever created, which is why I’m especially interested in Helvetica, an independent documentary that charts the history of the typeface and it’s ubiquity in everyday life.

The film is set to be release in 2007 to coincide with Helvetica’s 50th anniversary, and sounds like a must for typegeeks everywhere.

I find the idea of the Mac application WriteRoom fascinating, and have long wanted to try it out. I don’t know quite how long I went without noticing that on the WriteRoom page there is a link to a Windows clone named Dark Room, but I’m glad I finally opened my eyes.

For those that don’t know, Dark Room is a full screen writing environment, designed to help you get on with the task of writing things without the usual distractions that appear all over the desktop. Dark Room requires Microsoft’s .NET Framework 2.0.

Andy Skelton has an interesting article for webdesigners on making sure that your WordPress themes work in the abomination that is IE. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go obsessively check some markup….