Jordan Harper

“The fold is one of those guidelines that has been thrown about so much that it’s now become a ‘rule’ of web design (or maybe more appropriately a ‘ball and chain’ of web design) with web designers blindly obeying without question.”

“Ever stop to think about the concept of The Fold?”

Another heartwarming tale of our wonderful police force keeping us safe from the evils of students, artists and film-makers. I’d wrestle them all to the ground, plant a knee in their back and arrest them if I were them. Particularly if they were female, and even more so if they’re dirty foreigners.

In all seriousness, what on earth do these utter cretins think that they’re doing? I guess they think they’ll look all big and authoritative, and ‘concerned for our safety’. Pity they come across as bored, petty, harassers of perfectly innocuous people. Prats.

bobulate:

Seth Godin on clichés:

In printing, a cliché was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. “Cliché” came to mean such a ready-made phrase. The French word “cliché” comes from the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to make a printing plate.

His secret weapon on how to use clichés:

The effective way to use a cliché is to point to it and then do precisely the opposite. Juxtapose the cliché with the unexpected truth of what you have to offer. …. I often use the Encyclopedia of Clichés to find clichés that then inspire opposites.

Hear the sound of stereotypes, a 1949 Number Four VanderCook Proof Printing Press in particular.

Well, there’s another life-long dream that won’t be fulfilled. Gutted. G.U.T.T.E.D. So what if it was losing half a million a year, El Bulli is (was) a thing of wonder, awe and amazement.

Ah well, things end. So is life. Doesn’t make it right though.

More: Ferran Adrià moves on: world’s most revered restaurant finds a new role.

I didn’t see that coming. Blimey.