I love these pics from the 70s. I love the captions that go with them even more.
“You’d think Pearle Vision would throw in another two pairs for free.”
Nice. Check them out at http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2007/09/great-olan-mills-photos.html
Enjoy!
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The 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts,
Resources & Cheat Sheets of 2007:
Organised by:
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Not a new blog, but good fun from time to time when you’re up for some stupid, stupid laughs: http://icanhascheezburger.com
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Apparently there’s a huge collection of plastic garbage floating just below the surface in the middle of the Pacific. Apparently it’s twice the size of Texas. Scary stuff.
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Trashing-Oceans-Plastic4nov02.htm
Read about it here, or listen to this interview on NPR.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15713260
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An addictive little game where you click locations on a world map as quickly as possible.
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For the start of the Sydney to Hobart race this year I thought I’d see if I could catch the gun near the start line at Nielsen Park, then run around South Head and follow them as they went down the coast for a bit.
Fat chance.
I did manage to see the start and get to The Gap at Watsons Bay while the leaders were still in sight. Lesson learned: Super Maxis go really fast in a favourable 15 knots north-easterly with massive spinnakers up.
Here’s a panorama I shot from Christison Park…
…and the route I took trying to keep up…
For race coverage including a live yacht tracker, check out http://rolexsydneyhobart.com
To see some other pics from boxing day, check out my set on Flickr…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22187126@N02/2139982253/in/set-72157603558640195/
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Two old posts of mine from the Amnesia Blog. Great books. Quick reads.
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The Elements of User Experience
Awesome book about building usable websites. Quick and easy read. Makes A LOT of sense.
What the reviewers are saying:
“brilliant“
“invaluable“
“a must-have“
“an instant classic“
“a quantum leap in explaining user experience”
“will change the way you think about Web development”
“the best book I have read so far about creating a great user experience”
“there is probably no better book on the market that so clearly and rationally covers the entire area of user experience”
It started with a diagram: http://www.jjg.net/elements/pdf/elements.pdf - the book explains how the diagram works.
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Don’t Make Me Think - A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Being a firm believer of knowing the rules before you break them, I’m a huge fan of anyone who can explain common sense usability concisely. Among other joys it gives me ammo for explaining/defending interface designs to clients.
Reading Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think - A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability at the moment and digging it. Here’s an excerpt explaining the importance of designing with web usability in mind:
“Making pages self-evident is like having good lighting in a store: it just makes everything seem better. Using a site that doesn’t make us think about unimportant things feels effortless, whereas puzzling over things that don’t matter to us tends to sap our energy and enthusiasm - and time.”
It’s the kind of truth that’s refreshing to read. People do actually write about this stuff. And well.
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One furiously productive day back in September yielded this incredible collection of Amnesia employee look-alikes.
Most are in-jokes, but it’s an interesting experiment anyhow…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21069237@N05/sets/72157603419808221/
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From Russell Davies comes something a little like Twitter, but you update it… twice a year? Enter the Slow-Blog Movement.
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Amnesia Blog Lifelounge A List Apart
