A bookmarklet that highlights adverbs and writing that could be in the passive voice. Given my predilection for weakly worded sentences this could be quite helpful. It has a number of caveats, but they could actually be useful as well. This bookmarklet is not compatible with Internet Explorer, but that’s no big loss.
(via Simon Wilson)
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Monthly Archives: March 2004
The Passivator
Sunday, March 28, 2004
NakedText.com
Saturday, March 27, 2004
unless they’re getting a bunch of money for the special requests doesn’t look like these are business majors. It must be costing them more than $5-7 a shot when you factor in overhead, the time it takes to run the website, and how long it takes to write on each other, take a picture, wash […]
Opera, IBM voice
Saturday, March 27, 2004
Just the other day I suggested that Cybil upgrade her grandfather’s browser to Opera, even though I rarely use it or even test for it, because he’s running at 800×600 on a large monitor and can’t see it well enough to read. Opera is the only browser I know of with screen zoom, not just […]
Combining BookCrossing and Geocaching
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Two things that are on my “would like to do someday” list combined together, although I’d rather use a topo and maybe an altimeter instead of a GPS, seems like cheating somehow, though I guess they are finicky enough to be a challenge. Also of note to the web designers who read this, how cool […]
100 MOVIES THAT DESERVE MORE LOVE
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Gotta pull this up next time we’re on Netflix.
Design by Fire: The Great Photoshop CS Giveaway
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Anyone who knows the answer to even one of these questions already has Photoshop CS and probably knows the engineers personally. I’m intrigued to hear the answers, but I think the contest is too much of an insider thing and misses the benefit to the design community that it could have had.
I have been […]
Recalling Forgotten Passages
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
I found it! My favorite passage from Shakespeare’s Richard II. Actually, one of my favorite passages period, from anything.
Was ever woman in this humour woo’d?
Was ever woman in this humour won?
I’ll have her; but I will not keep her long.
What! I, that kill’d her husband and his father:
To take her in her heart’s extremest hate,
With […]
The Broadmoor Online Reservations in oneScreen(TM)
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Polar opposite of inductive user interface. Wish it weren’t in flash, or they’d at least picked crisper fonts. (via a Jeffrey Veen presentation)
Xina Design
Monday, March 22, 2004
Sunday afternoon I took a few hours to design a default template for Xina, a CMS+ system that I have periodically done interface work on over the last several years. Don’t bother looking under the hood at the source, it’s a mongrel of a transitional layout, complete with brute force old dhtml navigation whose only […]
"Who cares what you think?"
Monday, March 22, 2004
This one’s been circulating for 3 years now I guess. Just leaves me hoping that we get some real debates this election that are engaging enough to not be fended off with canned responses written by mr. cunthair’s speech writers.