Yearly Archives: 2008
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Take a Break and Laugh
While we all manage through that final push, I thought I’d post these just for laughs. And I think they’re fantastic design. Well, the condoms are.The bear is just funny art. I don’t really expect anyone to be checking this, but in case you’ve fallen into that routine of procrastination of checking everyone’s blog before [...]
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TV and Web Harm Kids
I read this article on Reuters the other day: Lots of TV and Web harms kids’ health. Essentially, a bunch of credible institutions compiled data from studies going back to the 80s to the present, and tallied the information. The studies focused the health effects between children and technology/entertainment, specifically television, but also video games, [...]
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Week 10 Reading: Insights
Here are two things that I noticed from this reading, that I’d like to point out because I’m not sure if I could make sense of them in class off the top of my head: One of the follow-up questions to Jacinto Jesus Cardona’s “Bato con Khaki’s” is “Why is bato ‘too bold’ a word [...]
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Week 10 Reading
Yes, I am posting on Thanksgiving. Some people may make a big deal out of this, as in this isn’t much of a holiday if I’m doing school work, but what’s a better way to chill out and digest than blogging? Probably watching a movie, but blogging it is. I was anticipating this week’s reading, [...]
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Web Accessibility
Tonight, I went to the lecture regarding Web Accessibility for blind persons presented by Anne Taylor, director of access technology, Wesley Majerus, access tech specialist, and another gentleman whose name I didn’t catch. These individuals were representatives from the National Federation of the Blind. It was an interesting talk, and here are a few key [...]
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Week 9 Reading: READING ICONS
I’m going to do this week’s recap of the reading a little differently. I was surprised (and yet, not surprised) that the icons the chapter chose to use and questions it asked, were icons I had seen in the past week and questions that had been asked in other design forums. I found this very [...]
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