June 2010
22 posts
Siege mentality →
readmorewikipedia:
Siege mentality is a shared feeling of victimization and defensiveness. It is a state of mind whereby one believes that one is being constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated and make one frightened of surrounding people. This can cause a state of being overly fearful leading to a defensive attitude. Although the term evolved from real sieges, today it may refers to...
Notepad.cc: A Piece of Paper in the Cloud →
Also crazy awesome.
cameronmoll:
This is crazy simple. Load up the page, start typing. Change the URL if you’d like, add a password too, share with others or reference the URL on other devices (including iPad).
Brilliant.
“Employing tricks like needless pagination, auto-refreshing (see Salon.com),...”
– Richard Dunlop-Walters (via marco)
Royston municipal picnic →
readmorewikipedia:
The Royston municipal picnic was an annual event held on the First of August in Royston, Hertfordshire during the early years of the twentieth century, hosted by the Mayor and Corporation. The last such picnic was held in 1914: the ostensible reason for their discontinuation was the outbreak of the Great War but it later transpired that the final event had become an open-air...
Redesign vs. Realign →
cameronmoll:
Cameron Chapman offers updated commentary on my original article, published almost 5 years ago. In particular, I can endorse this recommendation, politician-advert-style:
As far as exactly when a client should realign their site, the answer is as often as necessary. It should become a regular habit to review what’s working on their site and what isn’t, and to make adjustments as...