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thursday, april 14, 2005
Those silly universities

Throughout the college admissions process, I have stumbled across some interesting bits of web design.

The University of California application status site has a strange welcome screen:

I like to change my password all the time

Cal State Long Beach wanted to confirm my email address multiple times:

the first two times

a third time

The College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara has a “web application” you have to print out and send in. It includes a sentence with three spelling errors:

three of eight words are spelled wrong

UC Irvine likes “click here” animated gifs:

click here!

The following image is from an Advanced Placement study site. I was using the current Firefox because I figured the site had no clue about OS X. It did crash Firefox soon enough, but ended up not working anyway.

what a combination of clues and dumbness

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monday, july 12, 2004
Just a sheep

Sheep.

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wednesday, june 30, 2004
Doodly bird, I like it

While messing around in Adobe Illustrator:

A cartoonish bird I made while trying to figure out Adobe Illustrator.

It reminds me of the creature I made with flowchart symbols.


I especially like how these vectory things look when you scale them way down.

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tuesday, may 18, 2004
better stay away from those

five things i’ve read and watched recently, and some of the ways in which they relate to each other.

the godfather, eurotrip, what makes sammy run, holy land, the day of the locust, and a few interrelated topics

i want to keep a running diagram like this. everything i read and watch should go on it. it would be huge and sprawling and quite interesting.

i wish omnigraffle’s demo mode let you use more than 20 items.

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monday, april 26, 2004
crossed with a proboscis baboon

kangaroo

(made on december 27, 2003.)

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