Clambering over the heavy folds of morning to bring you:
Boo-ya! At last, a critique of Web design I can get my teeth into. Also, a new determinating term: stylist. – A List Apart
Call me cranky, but contrast Nigo’s t-shirts and posters to the painstakingly worked-out, user-need-driven work of one of the creators featured in British Rail Design , say Jock Kinneir himself. Is this an unfair comparison, a sterling example of apples v. oranges? Absolutely. Because only one of the two works in the field of design.
The other is best described as a stylist.
Read the copyright fine print; win a car. – Boing Boing
Flash stylists for civil liberties! – Tom Paine
How to win at Rock, Stone, Scissors and therefore have cheaper sex in a Japanese whorehouse. – AccordionGuy
Two things about this XBox modders’ story (via Slashdot). First, that Microsoft asked him to take down the BIOS image *twelve hours* after it went up (that’ll be Google-as-limit-on-free-speech). Second: he’s got an MP3 up of the phone request.
Ever since I worked at the Guardian and we uploaded the Aitken/Ritz faxes, I’ve always wanted articles to include as footnotes the supporting evidence: MP3s of phone calls, the notes, the e-mails, the books read, the employees interviewed. Journalists say it’s hard to do because of legal implications and the difficulty of preserving anonymity. That’s often true, but not always. What is always true is that this paraphernalia is often halting, confused, and a bit amateurish. Few journalists can bare to listen to their interview tapes themselves, let alone hand them over to the public. One part of a journalists’ job is to polish and re-edit this mess until you have a coherent, lively, readable tale.
But the truth isn’t lively, readable or professional. And it’s coherent in a way that we can’t anticipate. I think the faster we learn to discriminate between storytelling and the universe, the better.
On which note, Seth has a piece on the stories we tell ourselves of crypto and usability.