What is going on at the left side of this advertisement? When I first saw it, I thought the lady was being run over and had hit the glass with her fists, cracking it. Then I looked closer and saw that her arms were thrown up in dismay; apparently that’s her windshield and it’s been hit by a walk-by rocking. Then again, if “your windshield could save your life,” then maybe this is from the perspective of the driver, who is running over the crazy lady who would have attacked the driver if not for the protective windshield. Continue reading ‘Break My Windshield’
Instead of the using the term “Photoshop” when referring to an image that has been digitally manipulated, we should use “dima” (like the di in dinner and ma like mud… or like “Those are some dima lightbulbsa”). I think it’s blasphemy to dima an image in GIMP and say it was Photoshopped.
Every time I think I should get rid of my Ridiculing Stupidity category (it’s not nice to make fun of people/things), I see something else that demands attention. The most recent thing to catch my eye is this sort of “slogan” that Aquafresh is using: Continue reading ‘The Aquafresh Fight’
I don’t kn ow if yu’ve herad the rumros, but aparntly thereis a backspace key on thek eyboard. I don’tbe lieve it myslf.
There is quite a bit that content owners (these are the people saying, “Put X on the site”) don’t know, which web developers (used in a very broad sense) often assume is common knowledge. This represents the difference in knowledge that developers have compared to normal users. In some cases, the users really should know these things; in other cases, it’s really beyond them. In all cases, web developers have to be careful when making any assumptions. Continue reading ‘Content Owners Don’t Know’
