“Geocities dies today. This is a bad day for the internet. This is a bad day for our collective culture. In my opinion, this is also a bad day for Yahoo. I, for one, will find it a lot harder to trust a company that finds this to be acceptable behaviour …despite the very cool and powerful APIs produced by the very smart and passionate developers within the same company.” — Adactio: Journal—Tears in the rain
“Most web design and development projects turn into clusterfucks. The problem is not unique to web-based client services. Advertising projects, graphic design jobs, architecture assignments, filmmaking, and pretty much every other professional creative service usually begins with smart, talented people shaking hands across a table, and ends in finger-pointing and regret—like a Country & Western love song.” — Design management – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
“Great design is born from inspiration, obsession, commitment and diligence.” — Design Is Too Important to Be Left to the Thinkers | Design Matters | Fast Company
“It doesn’t take a genius to see where this will all end up. The irony is that we’ve spent 10 months coming up with all these great ideas, but we won’t be able to afford to implement a single one of them. I think maybe I know where all the state money has disappeared to.” — Tales from Redesignland: Nickeled and Dimed to Death
“After some back-and-forth – usually several times over a week or two – a new solution emerged that still addressed the original animating concern, but without the red flags. Although some would call that ‘compromise’ – and sometimes that’s accurate – at its best, it’s closer to something like ‘refinement.’” — Confessions of a Community College Dean: Speaking Like a Hedgehog, Hearing Like a Fox
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“One of the reasons I don’t like reading newspapers these days is that they’re all about Twitter. I’m so tired of hearing how great Twitter is. It’s a sore spot for me, cause they get all the glory, and there’s nothing but boredom for me, a two-plus-year tireless Twitterer. I used to feel Twitter was exciting. Now all the news on Twitter is about how much money they’re worth, and how many followers some Hollywood asshole has.” — Random thoughts over morning coffee (Scripting News)
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rev=”canonical” usage has gone stratospheric.
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spectacular thunderstorm last night. They don’t make them like that on the West coast
Pro tip: when a small animal bites you, don’t pull away. Hold their teeth in you til their jaws release & you won’t lose a chunk of skin
Previous tip not good for anything poisonous or actually trying to eat you.
FeedGrab — brandnewbox.co.uk -
FeedGrab documentation, because I am always searching for this.