13 Really Cool Pools

"A bunch of swimming pools have been doing the rounds on blogs lately. Here is the Oobject alternative list of cool pools. Including pools over fake pools, pools hanging off the edge of buildings, 1000 year old pools and spectacular underground pools."

[via Oobject]

13 Award-Winning Newspaper Designs

"Print and Web are different. Traditional layout techniques from print, particularly an advanced formatting, aren’t applicable to the Web as CSS doesn’t offer sophisticated instruments to design such layouts (e.g. text floating around an embedded image; some “floating” techniques provide such results, however they produce bloated source code just as well).

At the same time the flexibility of the Web is hardly applicable to print as there is no way to customize a traditional periodical for reader’s convenience. Apart from that, online-reading is very different from offline-reading: in the latter both leading and the line length are usually much shorter."

[via Smashing Magazine]

13 Tools For Tracking Discussions In The Blogosphere

"Your RSS reader may give you information, but it probably won’t help you discover new, interesting sites and follow bloggers’ discussions on a subject. This is where memetrackers can come in handy. Once you find a story that interests you, the trackers will show you a number of sources that are discussing it, possibly leading you to new sites that may get your attention. We’ve gathered together 13 trackers on a number of subjects for you to check out."

[via Mashable]