July 2009
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people skills?
if you unsuccessfully try to get into a girl pants, don’t IM her years after she has mostly forgotten who you are (because well, you never quite made it into her pants didja?) with “lots of questions about websites”. she will not drop everything and help you with your problems.
and for the love of god, don’t do it flirtatiously. that is so creepy and weird.
really. if i...
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“At first ghostvirus posted mostly innocent images, not wanting to get on...”
– a brief history of milhouse from the #tumblrs memes wiki.
note: milhouse is not safe for work, but the wiki is!
i went there.
webmarc:
“That should be a post type on Tumblr.”
— Me on someone requesting something “posthaste.”
does that mean the post won’t have summoning sickness?
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“There are two meanings to XHTML: technical and marketing… …The...”
– misunderstanding markup
very well written ariticle about the ending of the xhtml 2 working group. has other quotable gems such as “java is to javascript as ham is to hamster”.
on this note, the only times i’ve used xhtml were when i was working in an already-xhtml environment....
“Janitors, cleaning ladies, ditchdiggers, changers of adult diapers—these...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
(very recommended reading)
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the future of wireframing
very often in college, my design professors loved to tell us stories about the pre-photoshop days. about their intimate relationships with x-acto knives, making mockups on the photocopier and mastering that machine the way one masters a piece of software.
this makes me wonder if history is going to repeat itself with prototyping websites/applications. when wireframing software takes a greater...
“…too bad I can’t be like ‘You’re annoying and have used...”
– jess
re: rude clients and “i am the most important thing in your life right now” clients.
silly society
it’s interesting how some people work their entire lives to be noticed on a large scale, to get a message out to the masses or share their creativity with as many people as possible only to be shunned as soon as they find the means to make it happen.
pfft, sellouts.
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“we’ll carve new streets and sidewalks,
a city for small lives,
and say...”
– the weakerthans - “fallow”
The Three Sexy Skills of Data Geeks →
i’ve only worked with fairly small data sets thus far (nothing requiring regular expressions or multiple machines) but it’s pretty dead on.
i’d like to note that the second one in particular, data “munging”, is no joke. when i did the sex charts, the craziest parts were filtering the data over and over again. since it’s hard to comprise a consistent table...
“It’s currently only supported by the absolute newest versions of Firefox and...”
– Marco
the status of all cool things related to making websites, ever.
“…the new logo is, in fact, the old logo - but in MTV’s new look, the logo...”
– from: mtv’s new look. via simko wow, one of the only cool things to ever happen in advertising comes to an end.
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