November 2007
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should web designers know how to code? →
of course they should! this is a great article, has great reasons and addresses conflicting arguments. the main point made: how can you create for something you do not know the medium for? contrary to popular belief, the .PSD file is not your canvas, the browser is.
“people in illustration… yeah, they draw a lot.”
– figure drawing professor, he rocks.
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People...”
– steve jobs via marco
“Facebook is a MMORPG for people who don’t know what druids are”
– jeff
tumblrs i follow
join in the memepool. also, thank you marco for writing a temporary generator for the link list.
marco lee szymon atmos dailymeh ideas cubicle17 internhack bnelson sublevel3 headlessness aatw corcarpemei nic shrimpchip implodr philosoraptor cameronio jacobbijani 4 aco cfetherston brigno dead livejamie gtmcknight inky omni levitate getshust davehauenstein katastrophic uhmore poirpom awakeasleep...
english grammar faq →
lots of ‘detailed discussions’ on very specific elements of the language.
on creepiness
chris: yea but i'm not hanging cute bear claws from my things
nikography: you don't need any accessories to boost your creepiness :D
nikography: oh OH
nikography: ZING
chris: if i was a godly animator.... i would make an animation of a gloomy bear dismembering a human and make it so realistic and graphic that no one would ever think a gloomy bear was cute again
nikography: way to reinforce my point
chris: :)
chris: bitch
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“What is most original in a man’s nature is often that which is most...”
– leonard cohen, beautiful losers
“If the entire human species were a single individual, that person would long ago...”
– what makes us moral?
wikipedia: paraprosdokian →
A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part. | via inky
“Semantics is the third dimension of the web content, which print medium will...”
– good and bad CSS identifiers
15 word illusions →
seen a lot of these before, half of it is more like ‘really clever typography’ — livejamie
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“You want 100% reliability for cheap? Buy a calculator. But don’t expect...”
– on the complexity of personal computers | kottke via cubible17
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crayon physics deluxe [vid] →
this is amazing! your drawings become animated physical objects, ‘solve puzzles with creative uses of physics’.
“1. Anything that exists only to satisfy the internal politics of the site owner...”
– web dogma, 10 rules | i like the last, orwell inspired one too.
“The more frequently a design element is used, the harder it is for designers to...”
– pagination @ smashing magazine
“we use ‘people’ as a derogatory term around our house.”
– told or known, in our lovely tumblr channel.
culture!
woops
mea culpa
??
mea culpa is latin for 'my fault'
ENGLISH MOTHA FUCK DO YOU SPEAK IT?
CULTURE MOTHER FUCKER DO YOU HAVE IT?
stop sucking
synackal: people suck so bad, it's the consumers fault that businesses resort to "tricks" because people love to fall for them
synackal: but its still no excuse
“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in...”
– gustave flaubert
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“If you don’t wanna run out of ideas the best thing to do is not to execute...”
– braincrack zefrank [vid] please watch this
all you need are ...bunnies
nik-work: i want bunnies to sprawl about my lap
nik-work: while i wear a pretty dress
osGb`: =.=
osGb`: i suppose youd have to acquire that innocent glow of perfection that snow white has first
nik-work: fuck that
nik-work: just bunnies
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always and forever
marco_: now you can't find endless weird Japanese porn
nik-: oh yes you can
nik-: that's what 4chan is for
marco_: people on the internet are so weird
where can i get some extrovertajuice?
joe: nik!
joe: answer:
joe:
A) It is easy to be outgoing and sociable at a party with strangers.
B) It is hard to be outgoing and sociable at a party with strangers.
nikography: b
nikography: but why
nikography: did you not know that
joe: oh i knew your answer, i just wanted to laugh at your shortcommings
girl != beast
(Rathmar) the nature of the beast
(nik) lol
(nik) am i the beast?
(Rathmar) you bet
zefrank: waves/internet [vid] →
“a really *practical* joke would be to send ten pizzas to some guy who is having...”
– via dan liebert (lots of these crazy little thoughts)
the hell
joe: sure is dark in here
joe: golly
joe: and lonely
joe: wait, what, why are the walls closing in?
joe: stop it!
joe: no D: i do not want to dark
joe: do not want to dark quiet
joe: THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING
joe: AAAUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHH
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“i don’t have hard drives. i just keep 30 chinese teenagers in my basement...”
– bash.org
“Putting an ID on your body allows you to create CSS properties that are unique...”
– what beautiful HTML code looks like | i always do this! and i have also wondered if it was good practice to do so, it just seemed like the most intelligent way to target page-specific elements.