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 [...]
Archive | July, 2006
Links of the Day 7/12/06
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 [...]
Banner Ads for Peace
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 concept and copy [...]
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