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Jim Wesson aka @hotdogsladies aka Merlin Mann is the customer from hell:
First, and most important, can we do something to make the logo BIGGER and more prominent? I’ve done a quick sketch using the circumference of my coffee cup as a reference guide (see attached) and I’m sure we all agree that the new eagle is much easier to see at about three times the current size (I’m not sure what that is in computer picas). Everyone agrees that the new eagle logo my daughter drew is GORGEOUS, so I really want those feathers to stand out over the “Stool” info scrolling through the eagle’s mouth (beak? bill? not important).
Great fun.
Gruber has written a brilliant guess at what must be going on inside the heads of the Apple App Store reviewers’ mind. I specially enjoyed this nugget:
I could read that over and over. It’s like the voice of a robot. The voice of authority. The voice of authoritative robots.
Forgot some of the plot details of this classic adventure game? Get a quick and humorous reminder with this awesome flash movie. I just realized my two most memorable childhood games involve pirates and ninjas. Guess you can’t go wrong with ninjas and pirates.
Some forbidden love is more interesting than others
Any geek worth his salt knows about the epoch time, the number of seconds since 1970-1-1 00:00. Seems we’re approaching a pretty cool epoch in a few days. This is really an epoch win!
