Day: August 6, 2006
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Cleaning out the inbox
I’ve been using del.icio.us for most of my quick links these days, but the various items marinating in my inbox at home seem to deserve a bit more attention, if not full individual posts. ### Magnets keep misbehaving collars in line – I’m still a button collar guy, most of the time, but I’m intrigued.…
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Fulfilling promises takes time
In Design Observer, Michael Bierut shares The Mysterious Power of Context, which muses on logo design and fonts, with a larger eye on brand identity. He cites Paul Rand (new to me) in a few sentences which reminds me that some decisions are just not that important in the long run. In the world of…
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Useful tip for fighting image spam in Mail.app
The often-useful Hawk Wings delivers a useful tip: A Mail.app rule fix for image spam. Just applied at home (email address constant for nearly 10 years = on every list imaginable), and we’ll see.
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Catching up with an old meme: the Wikipedia contrail
I’d read The New Yorker article on Wikipedia (thanks, Laura), and last night I read The Atlantic article on same. Looking at my cluttered home inbox, I found my wikipedia contrail, a meme I’m a few weeks late on. I typed “en.wikipedia.org/wiki/” into my browser and looked to see what came up as autocomplete options–this…