This design may be good, bad, or indifferent but it is not accidental.
— Web Design Manifesto 2012 – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
To promote Animaniacs before the show’s premiere, a giant balloon in the shape of Yakko was placed on top of the water tower on the Warner Bros. lot. Unfortunately, no one told Bob Daley, who ran the studio. When he pulled into work that morning, he thought someone had put a bad Mickey Mouse balloon on the tower and ordered it removed. The inflatable Yakko was in place for less than 12 hours, and then popped shortly after he came down. Writer Paul Rugg was able to snap a photo to prove it happened.
— Way More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Animaniacs - Mental Floss
Musically, “Pumped Up Kicks” could probably be generously described on a bandwagoning blog or an increasingly irrelevant magazine as “a catchy, dance floor-ready blend of genres, showcasing the indie scene’s lo-fi aesthetic with a side of anthemic good vibes … an electric blanket for the rapidly darkening fall season.” It might be less generously described as “a poorly-mixed, indistinct tangle of mumbling and reverb that grasps desperately at the coattails of many genres and, in its wild effort to do so, fails to sound like anything at all.
Client: Why have you taken my website down? I demand you put it back immediately!
Me: You didn’t pay your January invoice, and although I explained very clearly the consequences of that non-payment, you still refused, so the website is now offline.
Client: But it’s February now, so put it back online at once.
Me: Well, you are refusing to pay the February invoice too, so I’m afraid that’s not possible.
Client: Are we going to go through this charade every month?
Me: I honestly hope not.
Taskbar Buttons by The Skins Factory
I will be out of the office on Monday, February 20th. Watch the Irish take on Louisville at 2pm on ESPN!
— Colleague’s out-of-office reply. File this under “Always be closing.”
An Atari reference for a Monday afternoon
…I hear you, but at the same time, as someone who is struggling to be able to code my own stuff, and not flop around like a metaphorical flounder on the beach, I can see how this is how someone eventually learns good habits.
The problem is that you leave a trail of bad sites in your wake.
I don’t want people to know about my first few years of designs. I’d like to bury them in the desert like Atari did to those ET games.
- From an email to a friend who indicated that “…there needs to be a test before you should be allowed to design sites…”
