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WSJ: How to Create a Successful Web Site
Wow. It’s absolutely astonishing — and frankly, appalling — that the Wall Street Journal, a respected business publication, would pushing such a steaming load of shit as this article. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen something so incredibly stupid in a serious publication in my entire life. Wow. This really sums up everything that sucks about our industry.
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Rabhuja Design, copyright infringement at its finest
The jackass (or asses) that run this site have pirated my chapter of Web Standards Creatvitiy, a book I co-authored for Friends of ED, and published it in their blog as their very own. From what I can tell, their entire blog is made up of articles they didn’t write. What a bunch of assholes.
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CNN thinks flash memory is owned by Adobe.
> Just how will Apple meet expectations? Using the patent application as a guide, Apple appears to be making room on the iPhone for flash memory, which means an end to Apple’s standoff with Adobe (ADBE) that’s kept iPhones from easily viewing a plethora of Internet videos. Apple has said that Adobe’s flash media player, which is on hundreds of other phones, doesn’t perform up to Apple’s standards for the iPhone.
Wow. Just, wow.
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Obituaries not available on dailygazette.com
> The Daily Gazette has chosen not to publish obituaries on its Web site to preserve the value of its print and paid online editions. To view obituaries from The Daily Gazette online, you can subscribe to the paid electronic edition by clicking here.
This is probably the most egregious example of “not getting it” I’ve ever seen in the online journalism world.
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CNN now lets you buy tee-shirts with their headlines on them
Check out the “latest news” section — see the tee-shirt icon next to each story? If you click it, you can buy a shirt with that headline on it. Seriously. This is probably the worst idea in the history of the internet. Wow. The best part, though, is that the headline is URL-encoded in the URI, so I was able to make my own.
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Internal Microsoft Vista SP1 promo: “Rockin’ Our Sales”
Wow. This is just unbelievably horrible. I don’t know what more to say. Wow.
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Internal Microsoft Vista SP1 promo: “Rockin’ Our Sales”
Wow. This is just unbelievably horrible. I don’t know what more to say. Wow.
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Flickr: The We Say NO to Videos on Flickr Pool
So basically, 23,000+ jackasses are protesting non-photographic content on Flickr by — for the most part — uploading non-photographic content. Fuck, people can be stupid.
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T-Mobile Shuts Down Twitter
According to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, T-Mobile has shut down access to Twitter’s shortcode (40404) for at least some of its customers (it’s not entirely clear whether this only applies to those paying for unlimited messages, or all customers). This is an ballsy, asshole-ish move on T-Mobile’s part. I would call it shocking and unbelievable, but I’ve accepted that all U.S. mobile carriers are basically douchebags who damn give a damn about their customers. I don’t know if Twitter is a big enough deal for the backlash of this to really hurt T-Mobile, but I do know that if they keep up these kinds of practices, it will eventually bite them in the ass.
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Vista puts Mac OS X font rendering to shame
George Ou puts an image of Vista’s sub-pixel anti-aliasing next to Mac OS X’s non-sub-pixel anti-aliasing and declares Vista the winner. No shit, Sherlock. How about a level playing field?
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Return to Perspective: the iPhone, Privacy, and Parenting | (parent . thesis) - CNET Blogs
Because he isn’t man enough to admit he was wrong, the author of the absurd CNet piece about how the iPhone is an identity theft machine (because it requires a SSN upon activation — he ignores the fact that every other phone does too) post his response to the comments and basically says, “Apple should have convinced AT&T; that no credit check was needed on the iPhone.” In other words, even after 90+ people pointed out how ridiculous it was to blame Apple and the iPhone for this, and after a day to reflect, he still blames Apple.
I can’t believe Gruber hasn’t already jackassed this fool.
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IPhone: Verizon’s musical airs
I’m not sure what’s more pathetic: the Verizon CEO’s lame attempt at convincing his troops that his company actually sells devices that can compete with iPhone, or the face that he has no freaking clue when it comes to spelling, grammar, and basic rules like capitalizing the first word of a sentence.
Embarrassing, all the way around. If I worked for Verizon and I read this, I’d probably quit.
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CNet Hyperbole: Before you activate your iPhone, read this!
I swear, CNet is one of the worst journalism outfits ever created. In yet another spat of anti-Apple hyperbole, they’re all up in arms over the fact that Apple and AT&T; require your Social Security Number in order to activate your service. Apparently this is CNet’s first cell phone, or they’d know that every carrier requires this information in order to do a credit check. And, apparently they’ve not done their homework, or they’d know that you can refuse to give AT&T; your SSN (thus rendering them unable to perform a credit check), but you’ll be required to fork up another God-knows-how-much as a deposit.
CNet, you suck, man. Seriously. You suck.
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FSF: iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them
Very convincing. I’m getting out of the iPhone line and into the GPLv3 line. Anyone know where it starts?
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SonSpring: LogoMaid Rip-offs
So the web design community is all up in a huff over this company, LogoMaid, who has crafted logos that look a lot like those from Apple, GodBit, and SimpleBits. My take? People should relax.
Yes, these guys are rip-off artists. Yes, it’s pathetic and lame. Yes, I would probably be irritated if they stole my work, too. But, if you stop and think about this logically instead of reacting so emotionally, you have to ask yourself: how does this hurt Apple? How does it hurt GodBit? How does it hurt Dan Cederholm? Answer: it doesn’t.
The kind of thing can only hurt two groups of people. The first is LogoMaid themselves, who clearly are going to have their business ruined over this. But who cares? They brought it upon themselves. The second is companies or people who have purchased LogoMaid’s work. These people were manipulated and conned into paying for something that could get them sued. They have good reason to be very angry, as LogoMaid — at the very least — has cost them money, and at the worst could cost them a lawsuit from Apple.
But Dan, GodBit, and Apple are not hurt by this. Not one bit. So while it’s perfectly understandable that they would be irritated, I’d suggest they shake it off and relax a bit. You’re not really going to let a third-rate rip-off artist get you down, are you?
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Letterhead Fonts embraces DRM
The foundry (which has long been a favorite of mine for display type), has added DRM for their fonts, and placed ludicrous restrictions on them, such as the inability to embed them in PDFs and incompatibilities with font management programs like Suitcase. Sad, really sad. These guys do great work, but if they really believe this will help their business instead of hurt it, they are downright crazy. It’s one thing to try to stop the rampant font piracy. It’s another thing entirely to not let me embed your typeface in the most popular digital format in existence.
This help no one. It won’t stop piracy (music has shown us that), it makes paying customer’s jobs harder, and it’s going to drastically cut into sales for Letterhead.
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Very Wrong, Only 17, not “50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006”
Yet another asshole trying to make a name for himself by publicly bashing websites of popular designers. He thinks my website is the most egregious offense of all. When will people learn that being a dickweed doesn’t get you anywhere in life?
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MyFox Milwaukee: Nintendo Hand-Held Child Molester Target
Unbelievable. TV news can be so absurdly sensational, man. This station did an entire piece on how the Nintendo DS could be used by “child molesters” to communicate with your kids. They don’t mention a single instance of this actually happening, but they do have the police on hand to discuss the matter, anyway. They do blame Nintendo, because they don’t adequately warn parents about this risk, even though the DS’s manual instructs parents to talk to their kids about the possibility of strangers starting “Pictochat” conversations with them. It’s incredible this can even make it on air. How is this news? Is this really an “investigative report?” And even if it qualifies, was there any good reason to do said report? Ridiculous. Honestly, I hope someone hangs bird-flipping moonites on these guy’s building. Via Nathan.
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Flickr Forums: Official Old Skool Merge Topic
It is so completely lame to whine about having to use your Yahoo ID for Flickr. You knew this was coming a year ago. If you avoided it this long, it’s your own fault. No one is forcing you to use Flickr. If you don’t like their policies, leave. You’ve had a year to let your pro account expire. Bunch of whiners.
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Further proof that 1&1 Internet is the most evil company on the face of the earth
Yet another person having a horrible experience with 1&1. Seriously, avoid these so-called “we hosts” at all costs. They’re unbelievably horrific.
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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