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07 Aug 2009 20:24

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Culture: Free fonts are awesome. Especially really awesome ones.

Disclosure: Our long-in-the-works redesign features a brand new logo which uses this font. It, along with the other fonts here, rock. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 3 Comments • Permalink

06 Feb 2009 09:51

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Tech: Hate ads? Like art? Try out this new Firefox extension.

  • Sick of ads? In this era when it feels like every single page on the Interweb is loaded with ads, you may just feel like blocking them, and of course, many people do. (Hopefully not on this page, though. :( ) Firefox, in particular, allows you to easily sidestep ads. source
  • Sick of ads? In this era when it feels like every single page on the Interweb is loaded with ads, you may just feel like blocking them, and of course, many people do. (Hopefully not on this page, though. :( ) Firefox, in particular, allows you to easily sidestep ads.
  • A creative solution Add-Art allows you to replace those ads for Hardee’s with something a little more visually appealing (and less Thickburger) – a display of a contemporary artist’s work, gallery-style. Those spaces are gonna be there anyway. Might as well not be blank, right? source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

19 Jan 2009 02:15

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Culture, Offbeat: Nothing is original, and we stole this too.

We admit, this screams “mission statement” for us at ShortFormBlog. And the Web in general. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 6 Comments • Permalink

14 Jan 2009 14:35

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Culture: The Onion A.V. Club redesign: Meh.

  • What we like The header font is a nice, cool slab serif, and you know how we feel about dotted lines here at ShortFormBlog. This is one of our favorite Web sites, and we want to see it do well, so we’ll visit it anyway, but … source
  • What we like The header font is a nice, cool slab serif, and you know how we feel about dotted lines here at ShortFormBlog. This is one of our favorite Web sites, and we want to see it do well, so we’ll visit it anyway, but …
  • What we don’t like Too much freakin’ white space in all the wrong spots. The previous design felt very efficient in its usage of white space and its bold use of images. Here, the images are smaller and less meaningful, the page is far too vertical, and it just feels like there’s a heck of a lot of wasted air. To put it simply, it feels unfinished. Agree, disagree? Leave a comment. source
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