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Dec 14

The Guardian’s iPhone application (via TheGuardian)

So excited - possibly TOO excited about this. Christmas come early. Downloading it right now…
Posted at 2:11pm

Dec 13
Steve Ballmer Rendered in BSODs - Gizmodo

Steve Ballmer Rendered in BSODs - Gizmodo
Posted at 4:35pm

Dec 7

Media: A world of hits | The Economist

Amazing article - so much for the long tail.

Posted at 6:31pm

Nov 26
“Can you re-upload the photos on my site? I think they are fading from so many people clicking on them.” (via clientsfromhell)
Posted at 4:11pm

  • Customer: Our budget is $4,000 but it is not so complex what we want. Have you used Outlook?
  • Me: Yes
  • Customer: We want exactly that functionality in our site plus some other stuff.
Posted at 4:10pm

  • Customer: Our budget is $4,000 but it is not so complex what we want. Have you used Outlook?
  • Me: Yes
  • Customer: We want exactly that functionality in our site plus some other stuff.
Posted at 4:10pm

Lorem Ipsum

clientsfromhell:

I had a client review a design, and all the textarea’s were filled with ‘Lorem Ipsum’. Reply: It looks good, but we don’t understand it.

Me: What don’t you understand?

Reply:  The text. What language is that anyway?

Me: It doesn’t mean anything, it’s to fill up the textareas. Just focus on the design, not the content.

Reply, after a day or two: Could you please type the text from our brochure in there, we can’t review the site in a foreign language.

Hahahahahahahahaha - this is so similar to my everyday life that Clients From Hell gets an automatic follow.

Posted at 4:10pm

  • Prospective client: $400 for a logo?! Why are you so expensive? My nephew has Photoshop—I can just get him to do it.
  • Me: Does your nephew have Microsoft Word?
  • Prospective client: Yes.
  • Me: Then have him write you a novel while he’s at it.
Posted at 4:06pm

“The modern internet is often thought of as a miracle of openness – its global reach, its outflanking of censors, its seemingly all-seeing search engines. “Many many users think that when they search on Google they’re getting all the web pages,” says Anand Rajaraman, co-founder of Kosmix, one of a new generation of post-Google search engine companies. But Rajaraman knows different. “I think it’s a very small fraction of the deep web which search engines are bringing to the surface. I don’t know, to be honest, what fraction. No one has a really good estimate of how big the deep web is. Five hundred times as big as the surface web is the only estimate I know.” Guardian: The dark side of the internet. Fascinating article. (via bingoparaphernalia) (via conorh)
Posted at 3:12pm

boxart: FantaVision. 2000, PlayStation 2, Europe ver. I still applaud the PS2 for launching with a fireworks display sim. Never played it but it’s an excellent idea - fingers crossed for an iPhone version.

boxart:

FantaVision.

2000, PlayStation 2, Europe ver.

I still applaud the PS2 for launching with a fireworks display sim. Never played it but it’s an excellent idea - fingers crossed for an iPhone version.
Posted at 3:08pm

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