kottke redesign

Fairly recently (a time value representing an increasing number of years - four years used to be a gulf of time enough for the entire High School or College journey, 20-25% of my life 'til that point. Now the percentage is significantly less... but I digress) I started reading kottke,org. Its design felt kind of timeless and was an inspiration for my minimalist kirk.is makeover:

but as his 2008 decade retrospective shows, his site has undergone multiple makeovers. He says his favorite was this:

Anyway, it's a great site with an excellent Signal/Noise ratio. (Also funny to think that I've been doing daily updates to my site for nearly as long, since the tail end of 2000.)