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Thinking of revamping your website's colour palette? From the geniuses at Pantone, the colour to be next year is PANTONE 15-5519. AKA Turquoise. Rhymes with noise. Unbelievably, this warranted a press release! According to Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “It is believed to be a protective talisman, a ...

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Update: *editorial corrections marked in brackets [as such]. It has been decided by the SensoryMetrics marketing advisory sub-committee (SMMASC) that Google Adsense will be turned off on this site.  Um, that is, turned off and deactivated, (just as soon as we figure out how to close our account). I know, so many of you will miss our ...

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When a product is poorly designed or conceived, online consumer reviews shoot to the heart of the issues. A couple years ago, we highlighted the rage erupting on Amazon's review pages towards fake-psychologist-hack-author Cooper Lawrence. If Amazon had "trending topics" for its review section, the item listed as a Laptop Steering Wheel Desk would be ...

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It's too easy to judge software by its cover - or its glitzy-flash-ajax-soaked UI. Unfortunately, in the age of web 2.0 / 3.0, some people equate look with feel. At a local DemoCamp last Monday, a presenter got rudely questioned on her "crappy UI". In fact the UI was well designed from ...

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The US government has been publishing recovery program data via its web site Recovery.org. It gives you access to all sorts of data relating to government programs aimed at stimulating the economy. There is a tons of data including an interactive US map showing the number of active projects and investment. ...

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User Experience is reaching the wonder wilds of New York City artists! via Animal New York

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In a case of mistaken texting, TOFU lovers across America are being denied these vanity license plates :) But PETA - the purveyors of all things furless are proposing this Virginia license plate alternative. Meanwhile... i'm still waiting for my MadCow plate!

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The most annoying error message that comes up time and time again on so many iPod touch apps is "acquiring current position...". Then the stupid thing just hangs. The problem seems to be that the application is looking for my GPS location, but trouble is, I'm not running the application using an iPhone, I'm using ...

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MythBuster reruns seem to be the only thing worth watching on TV lately. For some reason you just can't get bored watching stuff blow up or get smashed to bits. My favourite episode to date has to be the Tesla Earthquake Machine. The idea is that you attach this vibrating machine to ...

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