(Source: KTD)
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Keep the Pink.
Pink has balls. Sex appeal anyway.
Don’t dumb down your code to the lowest common denominator.
Failing to notice the colour is a learning opportunity—why would you deprive developers of a learning opportunity—isn’t knowledge more important than making developers or clients comfortable? What is the value of comfortable? Easy? Obvious? Politically “neutral”?
Pink reminds us of the developers who dug the well. They are human. The developers who dug the well bring their humanity to development. They dug the pink. Respect that. Well-diggers like Paul Irish. Fuck corporate sites that don’t get it. Let the joke be on them. It’s fun. We all can use a little extra fun—right?
Keep the pink.
Why is this colour incorrect? Because the committee determined that “a more neutral color” is more appropriate? There is no such thing as a “neutral” color. There is such a thing as a neutered boilerplate. Gutless. Cheap.
I challenge you to have some courage. Stop wearing blue or white shirts to work everyday. Ask for a raise. Hold websites for ransom. Make sure you get that last payment. Take some time to try to understand someone who is a little different than yourself.
Pink is not random. Pink was picked.
Pink has meaning. Pink is content. Content first. Pink is meaningful content programmed into the very DNA of the CSS display layer. Pink brands the boilerplate and says “thank you”.
Pink is subversive. Pink screams for attention. Pink surprises and delights the user. Wakes us up. Shocks us. Shouts.
Pink has personality. Pink reminds us that we are entitled to have a personality; to express our personality, to incorporate our personality into our work and value it as part of the package, part of what the client is paying for.
Pink burn our hearts with grief.
Pink reminds us to be grateful for the help we got.
Pink reminds us that we are not doing it alone.
Pink reminds us to give back. To teach. Pink reminds us of the dead.
Pink rebels against silence.
Pink rebels against inchoate neutral mute.
Pink is OK with imperfection.
Pink is so wrong that it is so right.
Keep the pink.
” — Anon
(Source: KTD)
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“For the first 30 years of your life, you make habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.” — Hindu Proverb (as quoted by Steve Jobs at his 30th birthday party)
I’m being shown the finger.
Kiss My Face (as found in Palo Alto’s GNC drug store, February 2007)
Originally I was breaking my site from out of the DiggBar frameset using JavaScript.
I’ve now implemented John Gruber’s approach to blocking the DiggBar so as to take a more hardline approach (using my existing finger pointing Digg Man to ‘point’ users towards the irritation in question).
Spotted outside Richmond train station (November 2008)
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” — Albert Einstein
Headline of the Metro on Tuesday November 18th 2008.
Safari 4 (Beta) allows you to save websites as Applications. On doing so, it creates a 512x512 icon, based on a screen shot of the website in question. Rock!
On watching ‘Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story’ I couldn’t help notice that the programme makers attempted to be historically correct by updating the BBC logo on the side of BBC Television Centre with the corporations logo from the 1960’s.
However, if you watched Blue Peter as closely as I did as a kid, you will remember that an illuminated logo didn’t appear on the side of the building, but the words ‘BBC TELEVISION CENTRE’ in an italic typeface.
What is surprising it that this isn’t CGI - it looks like they did actually replace the neon lighting in April of this year. Amazing the lengths people will go to (if only to get it wrong).
Note that the icon preview is not that of the actual file. Weird!
“I stand corrected, said the man in the orthopaedic shoes.” — Alan Partridge
“It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it” — Peter Jones on Dragon’s Den