Do you want a Jakob Nielson mousepad? (see image below:)
Can mine say ‘Jakob Nielson Is A Cocksucking Whore?’
This part’s even better: ‘ Suffering doubt when designing for the Web? Never fear! This mousepad provides you all the inspiration necessary for ensuring you design correctly.’
Kiss my fucking ass. ‘Design Correctly?’ Fuck you.
The Onion is the best newspaper ever:
‘The aesthetic judgment of Paul Gaskill, a graphic designer working on a brochure for Valley View Apartments, was “severely clouded” by a desire to use a new Adobe Photoshop plug-in, coworkers at Blue Moon Design said Monday.’
“It happens more than you’d think around here,” Mahaffey said. “With Marty [Boyd], it was the blur features. ‘Motion blur,’ ‘gaussian blur,’ ‘radial blur’–you name it, he’d blur it. With Rebecca [Almeida], it was the Alien Skin Eye Candy effects. The temptation is always going to be there.”
‘Alarmingly, Gaskill’s journey of graphic-effects discovery may only be beginning. The wave effect, Mahaffey said, is just one of hundreds of PhotoFrame 2.0 options. With the plug-in, users can easily make an image glow, cast a shadow, and create charcoal outlines. Mahaffey said he expects to see many of these effects surface in Gaskill’s work in the near future.’
The next time someone has me go to my desk and make design changes to a LOGO during a MEETING with David Siegel on speakerphone telling me what to do.. -breath- I’m going to fucking kill someone. Probably David Siegel. I swear this.
I even missed lunch. Motherfucker. The CEO or president or whatever can’t even remember my name. I’ve only been in meeting after meeting with her.
Okay, so I’m sure you’ve realized there’s something going on here. I’ve got a clue for you: we’ve redesigned the site. I got a little bored this Sunday while my son was taking a nap, so voila. New Alternate. Let us know what you think.
The links at the top won’t work, because well, I wasn’t THAT motivated. Give us a little time, and you’ll have full-on rockin’ site back together in no time (let’s be honest: you really didn’t use those sections, anyway, did you? I didn’t think so).
From WiredNews: ‘Microsoft has released Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows ME, the first version of the Windows operating system designed specifically for home users.’
Uhm…. Huh? Do you mean to tell me that Windows 95 and Windows 98 were intended for PROFESSIONAL users?
Now, THIS quote is makes a little more sense: ‘But one outstanding application doesn’t compensate for the system crashes and slow performance exhibited on our test machines.
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Also, this one: ‘Windows ME also tested slower than Windows 98. ‘
‘The “Home Networking” wizard helps users set up file, printer, and Internet-based sharing over a peer-to-peer network, a worthy feature but one that has been a basic part of the Macintosh operating system for years.’
That makes sense. Why don’t you put out new software that’s SLOWER and WORSE than the software it’s supposed to replace? Why the hell is Bill Gates so fucking rich? These people should be BEGGING people to buy their software, not mandating it.
Check this out: ‘Some analysts think that ME is correctly targeted at less savvy consumers and does not offer much for experienced computer users.
“Windows ME is clearly aimed at home users. It doesn’t have the sort of cutting-edge benefits and features a sophisticated user would want or need,” said Victor Pagano, an analyst with Andersen Consulting.’
That’s cool. As a home user, I wouldn’t need STABILITY, or anything ADVANCED like that. I’m just an idiot with an internet account and a checkbook. I don’t NEED my computer for anything. I don’t really care that it crashes so much, I just need it for stupid shit in the first place.
Microsoft is finally planning on introducing that steaming pile of dogshit known as ‘Windows Millennium Edition’ that should have been introduced alongside Windows 2000. Among the new features:
Plug and Play support (Wow! That’s awesome! I’ve never heard of THAT!)
Error Recovery System (I bet that would be a good idea, assuming the error recovery system doesn’t have errors, which it undoubtedly will)
‘…Improved Internet connectivity designed to make connecting Internet appliances such as Web-enabled refrigerators and ovens more efficient.’ (Great! Now my web-enabled toaster can flame my web-enabled oven on its newsgroups. And my web-enabled coffee-maker can browse the web and let me know via an AOL-like popup screen before I make coffee in the morning when Maxwell House is on sale on coffee.amazon.com. I just can’t wait!)
And the best part? The price! It only costs $209 for the full install! I love spending so much on my OS. That stupid MacOS is only $99, with a free version coming out. And the Linux thing I hear so much about is FREE. If it’s so good, then why is it free?
I’m going to abuse my posting access by providing a like to my new site: http://www.deeperhue.com. Check it out. It’s just design and stuff.
Are you sick of ‘dotcoms’ taking all the credit for a ‘new economy’? Are you tired of sad, poorly designed websites that cost millions to build, have Flash intros for everything, but give you little in the way of actual information? Well, here’s a a site for you.
Check it out. They’re a lot like we are, only they don’t cuss. Brought to you by 37signals, the folks that brought you eNormicom.
I understand that the title of this article is a Snoop Dogg reference, and that this article is about Dr. Dre, but hey. It was the best I could come up with.
Following suit (pun intended) with Metallica, Dr. Dre is suing Napster, Inc. for more of this copyright infringement BS. I am truly getting sick and tired of musicians whining like babies and hiring lawyers any time that they aren’t making as much money as they think they should be. And the worst part about all these MP3 lawsuits is that none of the people suing understand the technology. The wording of these allegations is what’s going to get Napster off the hook in court, I think. Metallica and Dr. Dre keep using the phrase “encouraged users to trade songs and recordings without the band’s permission.” This is bogus. Napster is in no way, shape, or form encouraging a god damn thing. They simply make the software available. What people do with it is their own damn problem. After all, isn’t that what’s been getting Hotline off the hook all along?
Art is free.
Let me rephrase that.
Art for the purpose of expression should be free. Art for the purpose of making money should be illegal.
Except for website design, of course.
Yea, MS slaughtered in the last week, along with all my favorate stocks, by way more than 15%, but this was an interesting blurb regarding Apple, especially when I bought a PPC 8500, and apple stock was around $13.00 a share. I should have bought stock instead of the computer. In any case Apple’s 2-year run from the mid-teens to nearly 130 where it stands today was not easy to forecast by many who had given up on this innovative computer maker in the mid 1990s. Although it is unlikely that Apple’s stock will again be a ten-bagger, there are many signs pointing to this very positive run continuing for the forseeable future. DLJ announced last week that Apple’s newest products, including an upgraded PowerBook, iBook and Power Mac G4, were “flying off the shelves”, leading to greater than anticipated sales and margins, at a time when many PC manufacturers are seeing sales struggle. In addition, Apple’s board of directors is looking to allocate an additional 600 million shares this next April, in what many see as an anticipated 2-1 or ever 3-1 stock split, the first for the company in quite some time. At a time where many PC makers are lowering margins and fighting a race to the bottom in price and features, Apple is leading the way with innovative designs, software and access to the Internet without sacrificing price margins or quality. Even if you are not familiar with Apple’s products, you should soon find yourself familiar with Apple’s stock.
