Pablo Manriquez's Open Salon Blog

Two Very Well Built Government Websites

Mon, 7 Sep 2009 10:09:20 -0400

Forget for a moment the content on a website. Ignore whether or not the site is handsome. Focus on the actual site itself. whether or not the site is handsome. Inand instead focus on the site itself. How does it respond to your click? Does it snap-to, or does it lag and reload your browser into another page? Is its information well-organized? Are the buttons intuitive? In these respects, the most-impressive I've found are:

The Huffington Post's comment functionality deserves mention here as the most well-built feature I've found on a website, but overall it is nowhere near as crisp in its handles as the aforementioned two.

Two Fine Morsels of Remix Culture

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:08:06 -0400

I'm proud to see that my generation is getting really, really good at respecting the Fair Use provisions of Intellectual Property Law to remix the tasteless & bizarre ludicrousness of what passed for "culture" in the 1980s & 90s to produce hilarious satire. As evidence, I offer--

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

¡Viva Remix Culture!

Obscenity and Baseball in 1898

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:08:46 -0400

via Robert Edward Auctions

Spotted: Job Openings

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:08:26 -0400

Photo taken yesterday at the Gallery Pl-Chinatown METRO Station in Washington, D.C. by Pablo Manriquez

FYI: All of the fotos I post here are licenced CC-BY-ND

¡Voici Cézanne!

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:08:04 -0400

Paul Cezanne's Boy in a Red Vest
Photographed yesterday at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
by Pablo Manriquez