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Entries from July 12th, 2006

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should, Ver. 1

July 12th, 2006 No Comments

Dear Reader:
Welcome to the first installment of what I hope becomes a regular occurrence on here — “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” — where we take a look at designs that are somehow excessive, over the top, or beautiful to a point being broken and unusable.
It’s an easy thing to do when [...]

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Links of the Day 7/12/06

July 12th, 2006 No Comments

Three coporate blogs…
Yahoo’s blogGood Navigation all around. But would it have hurt them to put just a pages in for author bios?
Cisco’s blog on “high tech public policy”Similarly good navigation and a link to “Blogs @ Cisco”, where there are a bunch of a other blogs, is a plus. But, like all corporate [...]

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Banner Ads for Peace

July 7th, 2006 No Comments

I came across a site (via inkblurt) put up by a 15-year old girl called “Peace Takes Courage” – a collection of basic Flash animations of pictures and text about the Iraq war. The first one, “Broken Promises“, is really moving – and seemed to be to have the same sense of [...]

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