December 2010
39 posts
Awesome. →
clientsfromhell:
Client: “I want the website finished by tomorrow.”
Me: “Sorry, tomorrow is Christmas and I’ll be with my family tonight and tomorrow.”
Client: “Do I look like Santa Claus? Get it done.”
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
– Albert Camus (via azspot)
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http://isitchristmas.com/
Ribs for Dinner
Me: When is my haircut?
Mom: Ribs for dinner
Twitter
Mom: I’m on twitter now. I tweet all day!
Mom: ooo laaa laaa, JLO is making chicken parm tonight. mmmm
Me: I hope this is a joke.
Mom: twitter me! everyone is following me everywhere
Social Media.
nedhepburn:
Overanalyzing the shit out of everything since 2003.
Study Confirms Fox News Makes You Stupid →
A study by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation.
This is the second study that shows these results. The first study, done during the...
Everyone on the internet is an asshole who...
Fact.
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Kevin Bacon sculpture made out of bacon →
The picture they have is incredible.
Web 5.0
clientsfromhell:
Client: ”We want the interface to be edgy and all Web 5.0.”
Me: ”Web 5.0 doesn’t exist. Web 2.0 is an accepted standard and 3.0 is still just theoretical discussion at this point.”
Client: ”Exactly! If our site is first to market with Web 5.0 we get to set the standards and everybody that comes after will have to pay us royalties!”
Me: ”Ummm… that’s not how Web protocol...
A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say...
– Aaron Sorkin (via nedhepburn)
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
– Mike Tyson (via soupsoup)
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clientsfromhell:
“Innovation should be obvious.”
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The Smithsonian Needs To Take A Stand →
For real, guys.
espnW →
espnW’s design is massively better than espn.com. Sure it’s just a blog format, and would need a flushed out navigation if it were to be adopted site wide, but it’s good.
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clientsfromhell:
Client: When someone with a Facebook account visits our site, it should automatically save their Facebook password and send it to my e-mail address. I need this within the next 2 hours.
If I were living in NYC in the ’50s, I’d be a modernist painter, in the ’60s I...
– Richard Blakeley (via soupsoup)