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Peter Nixon
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Sunday, 26 September 2004
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Thursday, 16 September 2004
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E-mail: Hi, I really enjoyed your books and they have helped a lot in the design of my pages (now I KNOW why my page sucks :-)). I have a submission for you for a web page that[base ']s sucks.
Why it sucks:
1 [^] It[base ']s a business site and you must have Flash to view the site.
2 [^] It has an item on the menu bar which leads to a service which doesn't exist[^] Online Ordering takes you to a page telling about how they hope to one day have online ordering.
3 [^] On my computer it makes a REALLY annoying dink sound whenever I click on a button.
4 [^] It has a beating heart in the top right corner of the screen that won[base ']t go away. It just keeps expanding and contracting, over and over and over[sigma].oh and I dare you to point your mouse at the heart (just make sure your speakers are turned down).
5 [^] The links page doesn't underline the links, it uses rollovers, [OE]cos it[base ']s a business site so let[base ']s flaunt convention, hmmm.
6 [^] The vet referral page refers to a database that doesn't yet exist and isn't on the site, so why is the link there?
Anyway, just my thoughts. Keep up the good work.
Comments: There really aren't a whole lot of rules in web design, but one of the rules is "If you can do it in HTML and graphics, don't do it in Flash." There's nothing on the site that requires Flash. Nothing.
PetFriends [Web Pages That Suck -- Examples of Bad Web Design]
12:46:36 AM 
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Tuesday, 14 September 2004
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David Pescovitz:
 It's a sad week in music instrument history. First, the death of Donald Leslie. And yesterday, pioneer guitar string maker Ernie Ball gave up the ghost at just 74. Ernie Ball's strings are as ubiquitous in rock and roll as Fender guitars. According to the Associated Press, Ball developed his first strings in 1962 after "complaints from customers (at his guitar shop) that they couldn't find lighter-gauge, flexible strings for their rock 'n' roll instruments." Shortly after, the Slinkys were born. And, well, the guitar solo has never been the same.
Link (Thanks, Vann)
[Boing Boing]
1:07:33 AM
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Sunday, 12 September 2004
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Saturday, 11 September 2004
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Results of a study in which human readers' eyeballs were tracked as they looked at news sites and multimedia content. Lots of good graphics and explanations here. A sample finding:
We found that when people look at blurbs under headlines on news homepages, they often only look at the left one-third of the blurb. In other words, most people just look at the first couple of words -- and only read on if they are engaged by those words.
[Paul Boutin]
12:13:20 AM
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Friday, 10 September 2004
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David Pescovitz:
BB mourns the passing of Donald James Leslie, the inventor of the Leslie Rotating Speaker that provided the Hammond organ with its signature sound. The "Leslie" speaker spins inside its cabinet at a constant speed around a fixed point, providing an unmistakable Doppler effect. From the Associated Press obituary:
 Leslie was captivated with the sound of the Hammond organ when he heard it at a Barker Bros. furniture store in downtown Los Angeles, where he worked repairing radios. In the store's large showroom, the organ introduced in 1935 sounded much like a theater or church pipe organ.
However, Leslie, was unimpressed with the organ's sound quality in the confined spaces of his home.
He began tinkering with devices to make the instrument sound more like labyrinthine pipe organs, using mechanics and electronics experience he gathered from a series of jobs, including one at the Naval Research Laboratories in Washington, D.C., during World War II.
Donald Leslie was 93.
Link (Thanks, Vann)
[Boing Boing]
11:42:50 PM
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What's a little talk about leg hair among friends? Maybe you're already shaving your legs for speed or maybe you're on the fence about the truth behind this aerodynamic move...
[About Bicycling]
11:16:33 PM
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This may mean that the house kitty could kill you. Oddly, the virus doesn't seem to pass fro human to human.
[Scientific American]
11:00:56 PM
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Friday, 3 September 2004
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