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14th June 2005

Beyond Usability: Designing the Complete User Experience

Adaptive Path is heading to Minneapolis July 19-20 to present a two-day workshop, Beyond Usability: Designing the Complete User Experience, with Peter Merholz and Janice Fraser. Readers of xBlog get a 15% discount by using this promotional code: FOPM. More info on the workshop can be found at http://www.adaptivepath.com/events/2005/july/.

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14th June 2005

EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers

“Whether you’re a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you’ve been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post… To be clear, this guide isn’t a substitute for, nor does it constitute, legal advice. Only an attorney who knows the details of your particular situation can provide the kind of advice you need if you’re being threatened with a lawsuit.”

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14th June 2005

Practical Painting

“A guide to the practical art of painting… Each month I take a look at one of the different painting styles and the masters who painted them… So many brushes, synthetic, natural and expensive! How to narrow down the search, and care for them once you’ve got them home.”

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14th June 2005

Adrian Shaughnessy: Decoding Coldplay’s X&Y

“At a time when invisible data streams of binary information fed straight to our desktops are doing away with the need for album covers, it’s odd to find a record sleeve as the subject of media comment and speculation. Odder still that the album cover in question — Coldplay’s X&Y — should contain binary data as its central motif. Prophetic or what?”

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