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Many "web designers" are great with Photoshop, but don't understand that a lot of special effects that are easy to make with Photoshop can be very time-consuming to pull off with HTML/CSS.

For the record, I think the ideal situation is to sketch out your design with pencil/paper and agree on a general layout before touching any code.

When dealing with clients though, unfortunately they may expect to see pixel-perfect photoshop mockups before agreeing that a design is what they want, which can complicate things.

Their campaign to try to equate internet access with a human right is unfortunate.

It takes whats a very sensible overall idea that almost everybody agrees with (increasing the unhindered flow of information) and immediately makes it sound bad or controversial to a large and influential part of the technical community.

I bet a lot of people go in there to jerk off or have sex in public.

Parody and commenting about something and humor and so forth is protected as fair use even under our horrendously fucked up "intellectual property" system.

Now, I think Facebook has the right to block whatever links they want to block on their own website. It's their website and they should do what they want that they feel is in their own self-interest.

Casting this as Lamebook doing something that violates Facebook's trademark is incorrect without any actual evidence that they are indeed violating Facebook's trademark.

Merely having a name that rhymes with Facebook isn't enough to call that a violation of Facebook's trademark.

A url hash that starts with an exclamation point is a convention created by Google to allow Ajax web apps to be crawled by search engines.

http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/specification.h...

I think the funnest IP address site is http://www.moanmyip.com/ though http://www.ipgoat.com/ is also pretty funny.

Turn your speakers on before visiting either. :)

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I can understand blocking IE users, but I don't understand why Chrome or other modern browsers should be blocked with no explanation.

Maintaining a decent blog often involves more work than expected.

If I was starting over, I'd probably just go with something like Posterous for the random occasion when I want to write something and be done with it. Tumblr is also a possibility as well.

Unless there's an overwhelmingly great reason to go with another one, I would get Facebook on my resume and set myself up to easily get jobs for life.

Did you get any payment up front?

When I first saw the redesign of TheSixtyOne, I also thought it was nuts; a classic case of web-design by graphic-designer.

But then I realized that it's an amazing solution to the problem they're trying to solve; discovering new music.

You're shown just one song (you've likely never heard of before) at a time.

You either like it and listen to it, or move on to the next.

You can't physically listen to more than one song at once, so you move everything to individual pages.

TheSixtyOne's design can be improved a bit, sure, but the overall concept is brilliant.

The obvious answer is probably the correct one.

If he wants to play a sport, he should play whichever sport he has fun with and actually wants to play.

I don't think normal people (the non-technical masses which are necessary to make social-networking type sites a success) will come anywhere close to understanding what a decentralized or distributed social-network is.

The amount of time & money given to Diaspora and the like is mind-boggling to me given that 99% of the population will probably never understand what it even is.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's too complicated for people to understand what is going on and most people will ignore it.

Craigslist's UI is fantastic.

It's not pretty, but that's about the least important element of web-design.

It's very easy for people to understand how things are organized. Cities are organized together, categories are organized together. All of the pages are text-based so pages load fast. Various functions on the page are explained with helpful text explaining what's going on when you try and post or respond to a post. Etc.

Their UI can be improved with a little more padding in places and a little more focus on quality typography, but it's remarkable that such a large site has maintained such a quality design in the face of enormous pressure to change.

Reelroulette is attractive and usable and makes sense for the motion design niche. Good work for a limited time investment. Though, I can think of some useful features (more voting features, view all submissions, commenting, etc)

PS: If I owned this URL, I might use it to do something chatroulette related while there's still a thousand and one opportunities. But good on getting involved in what you enjoy doing. Good luck trevorturk.

Just to throw my two cents into the mix, some of the best computer fun I've had in recent weeks has involved playing with Processing.

http://processing.org/

As somebody who normally does a lot of Ruby, PHP, Javascript web consulting working dealing mostly with data and database stuff, it's been fun to stretch my mind and play around with a much more visual programming environment.

I think the answer depends on what your product and target market is.

If your product is designed for technical-users, it's likely that most of them have already migrated to Leopard, making the headache of ensuring support for Tiger likely not worth it.

If your product is designed for non-technical users, the headache of remaining backwards-compatible is probably worth it based on the vast number of folks who don't upgrade until they buy a new computer with a new OS pre-installed.

To some extent, you can ameliorate these concerns, but using Flash for a website generally leads to usability issues.

Here's an article from me explaining why, if you're interested.

http://informationrain.com/2007/07/25/why-i-dont-make-flash-...

In my opinion, flash should mainly be used for what it's great at....making games, some types of interactive tools, and a decent quality cross-platform video solution.

What percentage of non-techies has even heard of OpenID?

What is important to the computer world is different from what most of the rest of the world values.

For me, the ultimate answer would depend on how computer-savvy my intended audience is and how much extra effort is necessary to support it.

My first computer was actually a Packard Bell. ;)

When I got it, it was nearly top of the line.

It was a Pentium 60 Mhz, had 8 MB RAM, 420 MB HD. 14.4 Modem. I think it also had 1 MB Video memory and a 2x CD-Drive. I later upgraded it to 16 MB Ram. I built the next few computers I owned and have since switched to Macs.

I actually did my first programming on that machine. I used QBasic to make a simple game where you moved a car around the screen.

I think I still have it in a closet somewhere.