Archive for April, 2005

Favorite References

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

A few of my current favorite reference web pages:

Google (of course)

Google Images

Google Maps (awesome!)

Everything (great for cultural esoterica)

Wikipedia (great for pretty much everything)

Song Meanings (little authoritative, but interesting discussion)

Urban Dictionary (street slang)

Investopedia (financial definitions and articles)

Sigalert (metropolitan traffic maps)

Idiomsite (English idioms)

AltaVista BabelFish (translations)

WordNet (extensively cross-referenced Dictionary)

Merriam Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus (classic authority, and has audio […]

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Mystery Symbols

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

Here are three symbols I invented, which I intend to represent three common, related concepts.

Now, my philosophy of icon design is not that people should be able to guess the meaning of an icon at first glance. For me, the primary requirement of icon design is that the meaning should never have to be explained […]

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But I don’t know how!

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

We live in an age where no-one has an excuse for not knowing something of interest to them. Despite this, it still amazes me how many family members, friends, or co-workers attempt to use the excuse “I don’t know how to do X,” as an excuse for not doing X. Perhaps at one time knowledge […]

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