March 2008
15 posts
Cabel Sasser: URL's Are Totally Out in Japan →
In Japan, ads display a search box with a suggested search term instead of the URL. Makes perfect sense when you consider that romanized URLs is completely Western-centric. In a character-based language, doing a search is far more efficient and easy to remember. Any companies doing business in East Asia would do well to acknowledge this important difference, especially in light of the heavy...
Penguin Classics Tumblr Theme →
Stunning new Tumblr theme by Max Wheeler that takes its inspiration from the Penguin Classics book covers. The different penguins for each post type is a particular nice touch.
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“It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man...”
– Teddy Roosevelt, 1910
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Roundup of cool design threads from Yay Hooray
While I’m not a member of YH, I appreciate the great threads related to design there. Here’s a roundup of some recent highlights.
The Photography Thread for March 2008
Terrific variety of portraits, landscapes, macro, and just odd stuff. Note: Some of the photos are NSFW.
Well-designed Web Admin Panels & CMS Interfaces
Featured: WordPress, Site5, Movable Type, Monolith for...
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Greatest George Clooney Story Ever
He may be pulling in $12 million a picture and deified by women worldwide, but George Clooney is apparently not above digging around in cat shit for the sake of a good joke.
Actor Richard Kind (who plays Paul on “Spin City” and is a member of Clooney’s inner circle) and his pet feline learned that lesson the hard way.
“Richard had this cat that he loved and...
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“Gambling is a tax on people who don’t understand probability and...”
– mullingitover commenting in a MetaFilter post about a gambler suing the casinos for her gambling addiction
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“I like Buddhists. They take iterative design seriously.”
– Abi Jones
