April 2009
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The best way to become boring is to say everything.
– Voltaire (via homecoming)
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Letterpress Text Effect | Web Design Trends →
The effect itself is often added to text headers and buttons, giving an inset or debossed appearance. Take a look at this roundup of great examples of this trend, and follow on to a mini tutorial outlining how to create this effect in your own designs.
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40 Beautiful iPhone Application Websites |... →
This post brings you 40 excellent websites designed to showcase iPhone and iPod touch applications. These sites are usually very focused, professional and clean. You will also notice that there’s usually a video displayed in an iPhone casing that shows how these applications are used.
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What I learned most from Chris when starting a new company is not about...
– David Spark: LinkedIn Recommendation
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Every text is from the outset under the jurisdiction of other discourses which...
– Julia Kristeva (via Semiotics for Beginners: Intertextuality)
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Daily Meh | On Human Identity →
“I have a grand theory that ties together several factors: human identity; the stigma around mental illness; and the refusal of many autists to even consider taking a cure, if they were offered one. I’m going to explain it to you. This isn’t merely an academic exercise, so bear with me.”
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The person who says “Enough innovation, let’s stick with what we have and never...
– Dave Eggers. (via dailymeh)
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15+ Inventive business card designs to inspire you... →
Business cards are usually the first thing people see when they meet you and are an essential component of your visual identity. How effectively are you setting yourself apart from your competitors?
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Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew...
– Mark Twain (via poortaste)
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Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving...
– Waking Life (via sarahd)
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How to Sell Statistics to Clients →
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Then there are web statistics. Marketing departments love web statistics and they are blatantly used to promote the success of companies and web sites. How many times have you read an article stating that Site X has received Y million hits? It is totally meaningless but few people will ever question the figures.
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The Cisco bid: To branch out while others retrench →
On the surface, there doesn’t seem to be much of a connection between the servers that run corporate data centers and a handheld video camera you use to film family vacations. Yet both have somehow become part of the master plan at Cisco Systems Inc.
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Community control of the police will occur when there is a shotgun in every...
– As seen in the magazine Popular Reality
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rdrb:
Urban Anthropologists, Andy and Carolyn London interview some of New York City’s more overlooked citizens. (via Vimeo)
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Ira Glass at Gel 2007 on Vimeo (via Casalena.org)