Intersmash Design Challenge Number One charged designers with duplicating the print effect of, in the contest's words, "an image nestled between two columns as the text effortlessly glides around it on both sides." Daniel Sheppard's winning entry is worth a look.
Also, we've finally made good on our threat to use more friendly URLs. This is the first post to make use of "slugs" similar to those used famously by Mark Pilgrim.