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i’m not cool enough in the cool way
Kevin Day, February 8th, 2010I don’t know why, but I can’t stop thinking about the redesign on thesixtyone. You have to go there to check it out. Do it, I’ll wait. There’s music, so if you’re at work… turn the volume up.
(waiting…)
It’s just so fun it makes me smile.
It’s made me rethink web design completely. There’s so many cookie cutter websites that have a header w/logo, navigation links, content in one column, sidebar in another, blah blah blah.
There have to be more types of sites that can be gutted and redesigned in a way that’s both useful and fun.
This format also is great a great candidate for Chrome’s “save web page as app ” feature. I now have an application icon that opens up thesixtyone in a chrome browser without a url bar. Just like an application. And it launches about 10x faster than Rhythmbox loads, which is a locally installed music app.
Right now I’m listening to My First Earthquake, “Cool in the Cool Way“:
They even have a link to a free download of the song, which is cool.
I’ve bought a couple other songs from Amazon MP3 from artists who don’t yet have downloads from t61.
Check it out and think about that design next time you put together a website layout. I know I will.
Crunch Course Now Live
Kevin Day, January 10th, 2010Crunch Course has been updated and is now live. It’s a community where people can learn together and give feedback.
You don’t have to be an expert in something to create a class. Just be willing to organize some material and gather others.
I’m the creator for Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. There’s seven people in it so far.
Check it out now. Join or create a class.
[Edit: thanks to reddit, it now has 567 members! Incredible.]
