== [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONM7148cTyc&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1] == I encourage everyone to watch this. I’m paranoid constantly that my bank is about to fail (yes, I use WaMu), and watching and experiencing the hypocrisy and contempt shown by the major corporations and banks as they pay out millions to fired failure CEOs (Killinger, anyone?) and place the burden upon…
Category: As I See It
Silverback: Usability testing for apes
Like many in my field, I was intrigued by the nifty “Coming Soon” page for “Silverback”:http://silverbackapp.com when word started pinging around the design-o-sphere. A page with a cool parallax effect (all the rage for a few months there), an illustration of a rather nerdy-looking gorilla (by the ever-talented “Jon Hicks”:http://hicksdesign.co.uk/), and a notification sign up.…
Chantanee
When I was recently in the Seattle area, I went to dinner with my buddy Tyler and his brother Kyle. We’d just finished watching an inane Michael Bay movie, and I had to get up the following morning before 5 A.M. to be ready for the car service to the airport, so I was thinking…
Ignorance is not bliss; it is dangerous
““One adult in five [in the US] thinks the sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science abandoned by the 17th century.””:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/science/30profile.html?ex=1183780800&en=e3760aa7d1b5022a&ei=5070 U-S-A! U-S-A! Let’s blow some shit (or people) up!! WAHOO!! Seriously… I’m beginning to think the movie “Idiocracy”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ is more a cautionary tale, rather than a comedy. I’ll continue: Dr. Miller’s data reveal…
Dear “I’m a Mac” parody makers
Please stop. Stop now. I’m sure the first person to parody Apple’s “Get a Mac” computer ads thought they were pretty clever. It may have been so. But many months later, with everyone and their mom creating them for everything from browsers, to virtualisation software, to talking about how a Mac sucks for playing games……
Wild Style
Have you had your website or “logo”:http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2007/04/01/simplefools.html ripped off before? Kinda ticks you off, right? Well, imagine having more or less everything about your burger franchise, down to the colours and the menus, copied. A “local burger place”:http://www.ksl.com/?sid=1282451&nid=148 is drumming up huge business because they are “just like In&Out.” Chadder’s of American Fork, UT, is…
Back In Fashion
I was getting dressed today and I noticed something in the back of my closet. Okay, so perhaps the only reason I noticed it was the fact I haven’t done laundry in a while. Regardless, the item in question is a shirt. A sort of faded plaid button up shirt. Not just any shirt mind…
Frustrate
Want to frustrate the living hell out of a designer (especially a Mac-based designer)? Require him/her to submit a résumé in MS Word DOC format. I just spent most of the evening redoing my PDF-based (and Illustrator-designed) résumé in Word, only to discover that, hey, guess what… you can’t embed fonts in a Word document…
Access Denied
Something I’ve noticed over the past few days is a disturbing trend in Web 2.0 sites out there: the good ol’ fashioned lock-out. I’ve noticed it in my normal browsing habits, but with the influx of visitors that my “OmniWeb bookmarklet”:http://gregorybowers.com/write/use-standalone-feedreaders-with-omniweb entry brought, I’ve started curiously following some of the links in my Mint referral…
QOTD: Politicians
The results are in and we lost. Undecided races notwithstanding, every single seat in both the Senate and the House has been taken by politicians. [emphasis is mine – ed.] – Joshua Steimle I won’t comment on the rest of the article—mostly because I thought the first line was so brilliant that I didn’t want…