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coupla neat boing boing parodies from yesterday:

• Gakker:
  

  My call for sanity regarding the fair use of the brick

  Bricks have many legitimate uses, including shelter, crowd dispersal, and brief grandstanding against Israeli tanks, so why all the focus on the very few which are heaved through shop windows to allow for the sharing of items? I paid for that brick, I’m not interested in being told what to do with it.

  My 4:40 am shouty talk at my sock-covered fist on the Greyhound 234 westbound, transcribed for campus dissemination and worship.

• boring boring:
  

  Ingenious wallmod allows items to be stored on vertical surfaces
  This guy (warning: site has no pop-ups) modded the wall over his bed with several shelves — three, to be exact. The lack of visible shelf brackets is very futuristic (although brackets can give a shelf a cool steampunky look). If you want to try it yourself, step-by-step instructions are here. Sweet! Link (Thanks, Francis!)

The Blog Cycle:

• What is blogging?
• Our community invented blogging!
• Blogging vs. Journalism
• Where are the women/minorities?
• You’ll get fired!
• Think about the children!
• The technology is boring/unimportant
• Will blogs change the world?
• What you do isn’t blogging — do it this way.
• They don’t deserve it!

Become the Idlewords.com Macropatron!

Jeff Veen, asked to judge an interactive design competition, rails against those still not on the cluetrain:

User-centered design vs. marketing and image Most sites had no sense whatsoever of how to engage a potential customer through the Web. Of all the consumer electronics sites I evaluated, for example, not one compared to sites like dpreview.com, a deep content web site dedicated to digital cameras. The focus was consistently on “hip and cutting-edge” music and imagery of attractive people having fabulous lives because of their recent purchase. When I buy a camera, I want to download the user manual and see sample photos taken at different qualities and resolution. Who on earth is doing marketing at these companies? Certainly no one who has taken pictures.

Integrated Web Design: The Meaning of Semantics.

Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered.

The Elements of Meaningful XHTML.

i just came a cross a kickass design and usability blog, signal vs noise. how am i the last person to know about this?

oh, yeah, silverorange has impressive labs and stuff blogs.

Geeks are hot.