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This is kind of off-topic, but I've always wondered, the pictures in Joel's articles (and this one, even though not by Joel) always seem to be completely random. Am I missing some relationship to the content? If not, what is the reasoning for having random pictures?

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Joel has taken inspiration from Philip Greenspun, as described here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000021.html

Elsewhere Joel has talked about how just having pictures (any kind of pictures) in his blog articles made them much more readable and that they were accepted much more positively than just a wall of text.

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