Archive for February, 2004
Sunday, February 29th, 2004
There's a well-known phenomenon in cognitive psychology called cognitive dissonance. It's something that most people are familiar with even if they don't recognize the label; you get CD when you are confronted with situations that conflict with things you know (or hold strongly to be true). The effects of CD ...
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Sunday, February 29th, 2004
Just a quick note - it looks like my contact form may have been acting a little wonky lately, so if you've sent me an email through it over the last few days you might want to give it another try. Sorry!
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Saturday, February 28th, 2004
Ryan Brill came out with an interesting idea yesterday; he describes it in the post Experimenting With Highlighting.
Essentially, he's replicated the field-highlighting you see in Apple interfaces - when you bring focus to a field in iTunes, for instance, a little blue border pops up around it to help show ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2004
I think I'm in love - I just ran across EF Keule 1 at Veer and now everything's coming up roses. Look at those slab serifs! Those tapered strokes! It's gorgeous, I tell you, gorgeous!
Why do I think that it might be a good idea to turn off the computer ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2004
I've been reading a fair amount so far this year (I've completed 32 books so far, according to my handy-dandy tracking database) - just about half of 'em have been work-related in one form or another, so I thought it might be useful to post a quick rundown of at ...
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