{"id":10921,"date":"2007-05-17T16:54:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T23:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/05\/17\/potpourri-for-517-alex.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T15:20:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T21:20:29","slug":"potpourri_for_517_alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/17\/potpourri_for_517_alex.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for $517, Alex!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m struggling a bit with the Potpourri entry names (no kidding, Dave).\u00a0 I realize that if I’m doing them on a regular basis, I don’t want to just say “for Tuesday” or something.\u00a0 Giving the date in the name seems redundant (unless done “cleverly” like the above), and will still potentially end up with dupes.\u00a0 And my other idea (church feast day names<\/a>) is … well, maybe a bit more religion than even I’d think of putting up here.<\/p>\n

Ideas are welcome.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile …<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. I’ve joked about the Olden Days use of Lysol as a feminine hygiene product<\/a>.\u00a0 Here’s an interesting article that puts it into perspective<\/a> within the history of birth control<\/em> in the US (“feminine hygiene” evidently being something of a code phrase in those days of federal and industry restrictions on interstate commerce in contraception).<\/li>\n
  2. Design and typeface<\/a> — Choosing the right typeface for the right job — and how you go about doing it.\u00a0 “Then, after a decade, I left my first job. Suddenly I could use any typeface I wanted, and I went nuts. On one of my first projects, I used 37 different fonts on 16 pages. My wife, who had attended Catholic school herself, found this all too familiar. She remembered classmates who had switched to public school after eight years under the nuns: freed at last from demure plaid uniforms, they wore the shortest skirts they could find. ‘Jesus,’ she said, looking at one of my multiple font demolition derbies. ‘You’ve become a real slut, haven’t you?'”<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. I feel so much better about airport security requiring photo IDs, now that I know you can just make your own<\/a> and nobody will apparently be the wiser.<\/li>\n
  4. What happens when ask some designers to identify pieces of technology\u00a0that influenced them?<\/a>\u00a0 You get some very cool, classic items that were both attractive and had a lot of popularity.\u00a0 I’m proud to say I was a Palm V user, and I did indeed love it.<\/li>\n
  5. For the obsessive web designer — making form buttons look the same in IE, Firefox, and Safari<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  6. Ah, the Daily Show <\/em>… integrating news as disparate as Iraqi press crackdowns, Milblog restrictions, and the latest YouTube nuttiness<\/a> — “Ottoman-humping gigolos!\u00a0 You’re ruining troop morale!”<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. Samples (with a UK flair) of website disclaimers, T&Cs, and privacy policies<\/a>.\u00a0 On my list of things to do.<\/li>\n
  8. Kottke<\/a> points to a YouTube collection of the last ten seconds of every Season 1 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Why not?<\/li>\n
  9. Negotiating a salary<\/a>.\u00a0 Nothing earth-shattering — just solid advice.\u00a0 “My single most important piece of advice about negotiating is to know what you want and be happy if you get it. The biggest mistake I know of is worrying that you might have been able to get more.”<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
  10. How to view Wikipedia on a PDA<\/a>.\u00a0 This came up for me the other day.\u00a0 Wapedia<\/a> looks to be the way to go.<\/li>\n
  11. Larry Flynt on Jerry Falwell<\/a>.\u00a0 Falwell sued him in 1983; the case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled unanimously that public figures couldn’t sue over satire.\u00a0 “My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics about them that you like. Jerry Falwell was a perfect example of that. I hated everything he stood for, but after meeting him in person, years after the trial, Jerry Falwell and I became good friends. He would visit me in California and we would debate together on college campuses. I always appreciated his sincerity even though I knew what he was selling and he knew what I was selling.”<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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