xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
9th January 2001

The Self-Serving Generosity of Philip Morris

“Philip Morris, the world’s largest and most profitable producer and marketer of consumer packaged goods, recently spent $2 million on domestic violence programs nationally, part of $60 million it spent on charity in 1999. That same year, Philip Morris spent $108 million on the advertising campaign to tell us about it.”

posted in Advertising | Permalink | Comments Off

9th January 2001

ArtLinx

“…the ultimate resource for fresh art Links on the net. Also, clipart, desktop publishing, fonts, web authoring, and much more…”

posted in Art | Permalink | Comments Off

9th January 2001

The Infinity Project

“It’s fun to hide my Planets and have people find them, perhaps hundreds of years from now. I got the idea one Spring while digging garden beds. I found several marbles that children had lost sixty or seventy years ago, and they were as colorful and bright as the summer afternoon they were misplaced. In the past twenty years, friends and I have placed Planets in exotic and mundane locations all over the Earth. To find one, you just have to start looking.”

posted in Art | Permalink | Comments Off

9th January 2001

The Infinity Project

“It’s fun to hide my Planets and have people find them, perhaps hundreds of years from now. I got the idea one Spring while digging garden beds. I found several marbles that children had lost sixty or seventy years ago, and they were as colorful and bright as the summer afternoon they were misplaced. In the past twenty years, friends and I have placed Planets in exotic and mundane locations all over the Earth. To find one, you just have to start looking.”

posted in History | Permalink | Comments Off

9th January 2001

eblots

“Every day a new image is displayed on the main blots page. Enter what you first think it looks like. If others have submitted thoughts, you’ll see them when and if you’ve contributed your own.”

posted in Illustration | Permalink | Comments Off

9th January 2001

Ian MacKaye on Salon

“After 20 years, the Fugazi frontman and co-owner of Dischord Records is still a punk and a prince.”

posted in Music | Permalink | Comments Off

9th January 2001

JavaScript section

“On these pages I’ve gathered some JavaScripts that I use myself. No doubt someone on the Internet will like them and use them.”

posted in Scripts (JS/PHP/etc) | Permalink | Comments Off

9th January 2001

Conceptual Foundations

“One of the commonest mistakes of web designers is to not take the conceptual foundations very seriously, e.g. What purpose is the web site supposed to serve? Who is the target audience and what do they want? How are the HTML pages clustered and inter-related?”

posted in Web design | Permalink | Comments Off