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April 17, 2000
Another observation. The design teams at both Amazon and The Motley Fool must be going out drinking together at the same Thunderlizard conferences. Quite frankly, their tabbed navigation bars are so eerily similar, I honestly did a double take the other day. See what I mean:At least there’s some variation in the typeface. But let’s … More
April 17, 2000
This sobering tale of woe was passed along by a reader of the spiral logo page earlier today. How many more hours of work must we lose? How much money must be wasted on consultants. If we can save just one life, one logo… it will all be worth it. Subject: Re: more sprialsDate: 17/04/2000 … More
April 17, 2000
Ah, there’s nothing quite like a link from memepool to test my server capacity. The spiral logo critique not only gets mentioned as a source for the graphically homogenous, but receives a subtle nomination as a contributor to the current trend of “orange” design. Truthfully, I just got tired of looking at blue and purple … More
April 15, 2000
Come to think of it, everyone that uses a Mac should forget both Netscape Aggrevator and Internet Exploder, and download iCab instead. Preview version 2.0 was just released yesterday, offering even better JavaScript support, auto-configurable proxy settings, and resumable downloads.
April 15, 2000
Earlier this week, Suck stuck a jagged barb into Netscape 6 and other apps that have succumbed to interchangeable interface syndrome in Skin Cancer. “Long relegated to the back seat of the software development process in favor of ever-more useless features, usability has recently been chloroformed, hog-tied and stuffed in the trunk.” The fact that … More
April 15, 2000
Shim, my pet stick insect died from old age about three weeks ago. For one reason or another, I hadn’t gotten around to cleaning out his jar yet, and a co-worker of mine was still in the habit of misting water into the jar every morning. Well, imagine my surprise when I noticed that there … More
April 13, 2000
A visitor to my site sent me a link to this image thinking I might enjoy it. I did. Whacked together by Mark Hurst, founder of the Creative Good site, it tries to explain the difference between the current rash of “nt” firms. “I think the basic problem is that their names all end in … More
April 13, 2000
It’s been around three weeks since I added new victims to the spiral logo critique and quite frankly, that’s about three weeks too long. There’s certainly no shortage of those crazy swirly contraptions, so I really have no excuse except for a shortage of time to play with them. Fortunately, for all you fans frothing … More
April 12, 2000
Well, smack me upside the head with a patent stick! Amazon gets a taste of their own medicine from Intouch. Imagine… offering music samples online… of course somebody must own that… what were we thinking?
April 12, 2000
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