Another piece of paper for the new Six Apart Is Rubbish file. How to get new template designs on the cheap? Hold a competition! Andy Rutledge says, "Commission perhaps hundreds of people to create hundreds of designs for your business and only pay for 8 of them. But then keep and use all of them!" No wonder Six Apart is a) rolling in it, and b) severely lacking in the morals-and-ethics department.
In other news, Livejournal apparently does not want default pictures to show any unobstructed pictures of secondary sexual characteristics. Now, what's a secondary sexual characteristic? Something that isn't a penis or vagina, but is linked to reproductive fitness. Like breasts. Or facial hair.
So, if you have a picture of someone wearing a moustache (like my picture of Des there) or a beard, like:
(which isn't anyone's default, as far as I know) or
(which is, but your secret is safe with me), then consistency says that your icon has got to go.
Rather irritatingly, I've not been able to find the perfect icon with which to round off this piece. It's almost as if no-one has capped a copy of the UK host of Deal or No Deal
. Not that it stopped me from making the pun in the title...
posted 30 May 2006, 19.49 +0100
Six Apart Is Useless