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Thought You Should See This: What The SOPA/PIPA Blackout Says About Internet Companies' Attitude Toward Design (Hint: Not Much)
Lots of excitement and analysis about yesterday’s U.S.-based blackout of many major websites, including Google, Wikipedia and Wordpress. I already posted a link to Clay Shirky’s analysis of PIPA and SOPA, and unsurprisingly, other opinions have emerged in the meantime, including John Gapper’s Financial Times
This entire piece was overly pretentious. It reeks of contempt; the designer looking down on the pitiful attempts of major online presences fighting for the freedom of the internet.
“Protesting? Please, that’s beneath us designers. Instead, we’ll sit back and jeer at your choice of font and non-use of images.”
This is not the time to criticize ignorance in design. Internet freedom will burn while these “critics” sit atop their perches, watching the whole damn thing burn. Want to design something properly (because apparently, everybody else fails to) and do something, *gasp*, constructive? Why not design an infographic detailing the effects of SOPA and PIPA? Or, why not help spread information that people would actually find useful?
There’s a time and place for everything. This isn’t it.
Look it’s type ranged-left! It must be a nod to the modernists! Oh, centered and ranged-left type?! I mean, this is srs bsns guise, what were you thinking!? Black, grey and salmon? Wow, that hardly seems like a Palette of Dissent!
And I’m practically quoting the article verbatim. Look, whoever wrote or contributed to this drivel, are you even reading these things that came out of a smash of your head to the keyboard? Being a designer doesn’t give you the right to be a pretentious fuck. Okay, so maybe at times it does, but seriously, this? Get off your fucking high horse and get a hobby apart from editorializing, I’ve heard there’s this thing that’s pretty popular in some places, it’s called being nice, maybe you could pick that up.
A fair number of people seem to mispronounce it ROOT-ers instead of ROIT-ers. Here’s how it sounds when properly pronounced.
Jacques Rogge dismisses claims 2012 logo is 'racist'
Iran could boycott the event after claiming the emblem resembles the word “Zion” - a biblical term for Jerusalem.
Iranian officials wrote to the IOC to highlight the perceived link. Rogge told BBC Sport: “No, it can’t be serious. We will quietly reply, telling [Iran] the logo has nothing to do with racism or any political connotation.”
The Iranian letter urges other Muslim states to oppose the “racist logo”.
Seriously?
Yes tumblr, that would make sense because it is the last published post. Note: “Edit Link.” I’m trying to add a tag for crying out loud.
The world's coolest nationalities: Where do you rank?
So it seems being Singaporean is of immeasurable coolness surpassed only by being Brazilian.
In other news: CNNGo is bullshit
This is the sort of bullshit that passes off as news in Singapore
Give-a-fuck-factor: -10
Joel Johnson, also a technology reporter for Gizmodo, told me he’s changed his habits with his girlfriend when they go out for dinner. The two allocate a few moments to check-in on Foursquare or snap a quick picture, but then put their phones away.
Really? If you need to allocate time to play with your phone when you’re out with your girlfriend, maybe there are issues that go beyond your obsession with technology.
Listen folks, I 100% agree that we all need to not allow ourselves to be distracted by our gadgets and be present with our friends, lovers and family but I think if you’re having a tough time with it you might need to reassess yourself on a deeper level. It’s not the gadgets, it’s your inability to focus, to have relationships and to have respect for the people you’re with.
(via soupsoup)
An email came along from the university asking us to do a survey yesterday.
Apparently something about forum usage. So I thought what the heck, why not.
And then I start doing and get confronted by the most inane and ridiculously tedious set of questions ever, including the likes of:
- I can show the way for strangers if they get lost in the street.
- Information sharing is not my idea of fun.
- Sharing new information with others doesn’t excite me very much.
- The notion of sharing information with others is appealing to me.
- I usually share information about issues even when they affect me personally
- Sharing information in this forum makes me feel important.
What is this fuckery?
Did the student body suddenly start giving the impression that it is attention-starved, deluded and possibly sociopathic? What kind of person thinks information sharing is fun? There’s this thing we have that comes around twice a year, and we call it semester break. In case you were too busy funning yourself to death by sharing information, it’s actually happening right now, so go do something actually fun.
I’m completely unsurprised that the people over at the faculty of Computing have to rig the survey with a prize to get us to do it. I stared dumbly as I gave neutral answer after neutral answer, not quite comprehending what sort of idiot the survey designer thought I was. I stopped at page three of eight.
Parkour for Lazies: The Bizarre British Lying Down Game
Lying Down Game creators Gary Clarkson and Christian Langdon describe their creation as “Parkour…for those who can’t be arsed.” In other words, this is the lazy person’s urban navigation sport. There’s no dangerous jumping or athletic climbing required; just the ability to lie down and stop moving for a moment along with the bravery to tolerate people staring at you as if you are crazy.
What is this I don’t even.
To my studio mate, stop calling me.
I am not going to teach you Photoshop over the phone.
The Geography of the Internet.
I thought the Internet was the ultimate truly globally democratic, internationally, interconnected, world-flattening, playing-field-leveling, kumbaya-my-lord medium of the 21st century.
Looks more like China with a side of America to me.
Well, the democratising effects of the internet evidently does not always come with a side of common sense telling you that there may be some logic in most populous nation having a boatload of internet users. For those too lazy to click through, switching to a per capita view, China fades to a shade of green lighter than Jamaica.
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