“Throughout the Great Plains, images of men, horses and a nomadic way of life have been scratched into rock walls, a pictographic record whose precise meaning has long been a mystery to modern eyes. But researchers have recently unearthed documents that are helping them pry far more detail from the images found on rock faces from Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in southern Alberta to the cactus-studded plains of northern Mexico. They say most of the images are a form of picture writing, a cross-tribal code that was widely recognized.”

“…there is nothing really remarkable about co-designing It’s the obvious, the only, way to design anything. How could one possibly do it any differently? Why should one want to do it any differently? As designers, we introduce something into the world; therefore we have a social and moral obligation to involve the people who are going to have to put up with it. It’s an act of courtesy; it’s an act of politeness. I sometimes feel, by the way, that some of these remarks make me a sort of professor of the bleeding obvious.”

“Kerning is act of adjusting the space between letter pairs. When you set type in any pro-grade graphics program (like Photoshop, Fireworks, etc.), you have the ability to alter the space between letter pairs, making minute adjustments until your type looks just right. What’s that you say? ‘It looks fine without adjustments of the space between letter pairs?’ Put down those pork rinds and pay close attention Cletus… I’m going to enlighten you.”

“Throughout the Great Plains, images of men, horses and a nomadic way of life have been scratched into rock walls, a pictographic record whose precise meaning has long been a mystery to modern eyes. But researchers have recently unearthed documents that are helping them pry far more detail from the images found on rock faces from Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in southern Alberta to the cactus-studded plains of northern Mexico. They say most of the images are a form of picture writing, a cross-tribal code that was widely recognized.”

“Surveying the variety of ways we display introductions to longer articles… I keep finding myself working on sites that have news or portal-like layouts, and each time I start from scratch thinking about how to display the headlines and summaries. No more, I started this gallery to capture the many ways it’s done, and perhaps I’ll eventually map these to the audience and business goals.”

“Once upon a time, executives at i-shops used to tell anyone who would listen that the world was now conducting business on Internet time. They probably had no idea that the swift collapse of their industry would happen on Internet time as well.”

“I’ve broken down and started up a blog. Like a lot of recently out-of-work folks/new bloggers, I’ve been ripped from the warm embrace of a highly charged intellectual environment. And I miss it terribly. Sure, I could just read all the great stuff that other people are writing, though with the potential demise of Tomalak’s Realm, that might become much more difficult. But honestly: I hate to read content that’s related to work. I like to think this is not disinterest or intellectual laziness, like some people. No, I’d just rather read the stuff my friends feed me. I also find that IA-related concepts are much more enjoyable if I get a chance to articulate them, not just read about them; hence bloug.”