March 23, 2004
RSS and the black and white world
Lately my blog reading has been pretty blah and RSS is to blame. Aside from the occasional odd image, I am drowning in a sea of black on white text streamed through my aggregator. And while the personality of each blog shines through in the content, I'm still missing the peculiarities of each person's chosen layout and color scheme.
Here's what I've been missing:
- Yukino's fluid lines and calming violet beach. I always want to whisper my comments onto her posts.
- David Weinberger's screaming fire tones in contrast with the far more soft-spoken content of his posts.
- Xara's frequent jarring and provocative layout changes that remind me of a strung out and stumbling, (yet still unspeakably beautiful), supermodel.
- Halley's no nonsense gray on gray with orange "look-at-me!" links. And post titles that jump off the page in a thick, heavy header font, because they deserve to, they're that good.
- The Oliver Willis smirk.
- Jessica's frequently-updated bursts of tagline humor. At least... there were funny ones when I used to see them. Maybe they're not funny anymore?
- Dave Winer's new header graphic. (Dave looks just like my high school Western Civ. teacher who was a general contractor during the summers and told us that he wouldn't hire a man who couldn't sink a nail in two hits. Anything more was a waste of time and energy. Since then, I have always tried to sink nails in two hits and find myself instead creating large circular holes in the walls when I miss. Let us all remember that spackling, sanding and repainting wastes more time and energy than sinking the nail in seven hits.)
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We miss you on the beach!
"Xara's frequent jarring and provocative layout changes that remind me of a strung out and stumbling, (yet still unspeakably beautiful), supermodel."
Only one thing I can say to that: Heeeeeeeee! that so made my day. (and reminded me I need to go see the Vivienne Westwood exhibition at the V&A)