links for 2006-07-11

The Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School Michael McDonough tells it like it really is in the business. This is a definite “must read” if you’re thinking about heading down the path to a career in design. (tags: design advice article graphics howto list reference business career work)

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Designing a site? Maybe you should be Getting Real

Adobe.com has an reprint of the excellent interview with Jason Fried of 37signals gave the New York Times. If you’re serious about development then you really need to take a look at the article. “There are plenty of ways to be close enough these days. In fact, we think close enough is better than too…

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DON’T Do This To Your Website

Here’s a good one for today. 8 Web Design Clichés of 2006. Yeah. It’s worth looking at. And hey, when you start redesigning your site, how about dropping those gradients you were planning on using and the diagonal lines. Just thought I’d suggest it.

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links for 2006-06-28

Adobe Labs – Spry framework for Ajax Adobes easy to use AJAX framework. (tags: adobe AJAX code design developer free framework javascript library tool web2.0 xhtml xmlhttprequest spry Programming)

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New Instrument Creates Sound With Math

Two Canadian mathematicians from the University of Moncton in New Brunswick, have created an entirely new kind of string instrument that exploits a kind of mathematics owing more to Pythagoras’s theorem for triangles than to anything he ever thought about music. read more | digg story

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Louisiana Video Game Law Put On Hold By Federal Judge

An effort to put a stop to the sale of video games deemed socially as “violent” has been put on hold by a federal judge in Louisiana after video game makers filed suit that the law is unconstitutional and infringes upon the rights of minors. Ars Technica: About two weeks ago, the Louisiana state legislature…

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