{"id":8156,"date":"2005-05-05T18:01:40","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T01:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/05\/05\/why-its-always-a-good-idea-to-run-these-things-past-a-committee-first.html"},"modified":"2005-05-05T18:01:40","modified_gmt":"2005-05-06T01:01:40","slug":"why_its_always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/05\/why_its_always.html","title":{"rendered":"Why it’s always a good idea to run these things past a committee first"},"content":{"rendered":"

It does make you wonder what the person who designed the logo for Brazil’s Instituto de Estudos Orientais<\/a> was thinking of.<\/p>\n

Well, unless you look at it and have no idea why I find it comment-worthy. In which case the title of the BoingBoing article<\/a> pointing to this may give you a clue of which “optical illusion” image pops into my eyes first. <\/p>\n

It does make me also wonder what will happen with the Institute’s webmasters notice the uptick in visits from BoingBoing and begin to look into why … (in which case, I made a download of the logo, just for future reference).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It does make you wonder what the person who designed the logo for Brazil’s Instituto de Estudos Orientais was thinking of. 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