Stop Making That Duckface

November 11, 2009 @ 1:39 am

Simon sent this over to me today and I started laughing real hard at my desk. Anti-Duckface is a blog that basically shows you why making a kissing gesture (otherwise known as a “duckface”) is almost always a bad idea. Not flattering and definitely not as sexy as you probably think.

The Wedinator: a blog about trashy weddings

November 6, 2009 @ 9:16 pm

I guess my sister knows that I work for a wedding photographer, so she sent me a link to Wedinator to make sure that I always speak up if my boss goes to photograph a wedding like any of these.

iStockphoto has great captions for cats

November 6, 2009 @ 8:51 pm

Believe it or not, this is an actual page screenshot of an actual photo on sale at iStockphoto.

The name of the image has since been changed, so if you don’t believe me, then look at the URL of the page which still shows “fuck you men” in the string. [via]

Some people find the funniest ways to slip through the cracks.

American Airlines fires a passionate UX designer

November 5, 2009 @ 6:25 pm

Back in May of this year, I posted about a wonderful redesign project by Dustin Curtis who took it upon himself to redesign the American Airlines website. Dustin’s reasons for doing this were to hopefully inspire American Airlines to do something about their barely usable site and to generally give them a better online presence in the midst of competition from people like JetBlue (who have a great online website).

As the story goes, Dustin was then contacted by somebody — Mr. X, as he is known — who worked at American Airlines and wanted to clear the air with some knowledge of how the design process works at AA.

Well, Mr. X volunteered that information and then AA fired him for apparently breaking a non-disclosure agreement which is unfortunate because Mr. X seemed pretty passionate about what he did at AA in his letter to Dustin.

I’m not going to go into who was right or wrong here, but I hope American Airlines gets over their red tape and thinks about what they’ve just done.

Obama weather report

November 5, 2009 @ 10:08 am

Here’s one way to celebrate Obama’s 1-year anniversary of being elected to be the President of the United States: Obama Weather (brought to you by The Weather Channel).

Obama (or Angelina, House, or Bender) will show you how you should dress given the current and future weather predictions. Give it a try here.