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1. The layout looks (through squinted eyes) like a domain squatter.
2. The color scheme looks like a high level on Missile Command.
3. The type selection looks like a ransom note.
4. It looks like the designer is waging (and winning) a war on white space.

From Steve Dekorte, creator of Io.

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Website Of The Day.

(Move your mouse over the text and click on it to see the website. No, the other text. The— Yes, that one. No, with the mouse. THE MOU— Here, I’ll do it for you.)

A man who chose “Lloyds is pants” as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to “no it’s not”.

If I could turn back time, I’d vote for 1923 UK general election candidate Seymour Cocks.

Anonymity is like a rare earth metal. These rare elements are an absolutely necessary ingredient in keeping a cell alive, but the amount needed is a mere hard-to-measure trace. In larger doses these heavy metals are some of the most toxic substances known to a life. They kill. Take cadmium. Essential for life in very minute amounts; toxic in any significant amount.

Anonymity is the same. As a trace element in vanishing small doses, it’s good for the system by enabling the occasional whistleblower, confessional, or persecuted dissent in a tyrannical regime. But if anonymity is present in any significant quantity, it will poison the system, even a half-rotten system.

dailymeh:

If I ever sit down with a child to do a moral talk about the internet, it’s not going to be about violence or sex or terrorism — I don’t give a shit if a child sees those — but about how you need to consider carefully anything and everything about yourself you expose online.

‘I can see something else, too,’ he said. ‘I can see that there’s no way I came from an ape.’

(via jakec)