Monopoles: Enjoying the Warmer Weather
May 8th“Architecture astronauts take over”
We’re not going to name names, but a lot of famous bloggers named Gruber and 37signals (for example) linked non-ironically (sometimes called “sincerely”) to this Joel on Software post. The first 900 words are just stupid; it’s the last paragraph where he really goes off the deep end. Joel can’t find talent because MS and Google pay so much that it’s “unethical”. Maybe the problem is that MS and Google have projects that are more exciting than web based bug tracking and home brewed forks of VBScript.
“Visible Borders in Designs”
There’s an internal dispute at Magnetk right now concerning the remodeling of our web presence. Some at the company, a self described “modernist”, is a big fan of the page-within-a-page. Someone else, a minimalist, thinks it’s a stupid metaphor. Look for the resolution to this dispute in days to come, right here, in the the margins of Magnanimous. (ps: if you’re a design professional with good arguments against page-in-a-page, email them to jonshea at this domain.)
Photos of the Chaiten Eruption in Chile
Click through the first few photos to get to the real Mordor / Mt. Doom stuff.
“On (not) Seeing Red”
I’m “colorblind”. I use quotation marks because people with anomalous trichromacy, like myself, have a different, but not necessarily inferior (and certainly not “blind”) color perception than most people. Props to Dean, though, for looking out for us.
Free Gas: Colbert takes on Gas Tax Breaks
With a “glowing review” from my favorite economist.
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