By honoring one another’s creation we honor something that deeply connects us all, and goes beyond us. – Joyce Carol Oates

-@parisreview, on Twitter

On the same day I read the above quote, I also read this excellent comic by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal about how – one way or another – robots will kill us all, and it will always be our fault.

At the very bottom of the comic, Zach Weiner links to a flow chart created by Rosscott, Inc titled “So you found something cool on the Internet…” which either results in the awesomeness of sharing, or a Native North American kitten shedding a single tear, and then dying.⁽¹⁾

Kids, I hope you’ve learned something important today. Every time you watermark over someone else’s awesome work, you kill not only the Internet, but also a kitten. So don’t do it.

Also, don’t build sentient robots. It will never ever ever be a good idea. Trust me. Continue reading »

Footnotes:

1. I have no idea why the kitten is a Native North American, but still, it must be true. I read it on the Internet. [↩]

Chris Coyier over at CSS-Tricks.com has written a seriously needed breakdown of web design terminology from something as basic as “browser” (you know, the thing you’re viewing this website with), to seemingly made up ones like “borked” that no-one’s ever heard of before (apparently it’s a verb meaning wonky).

I love that half the comments are devoted to new opportunities (hey! DNS was missed!) while the other half is devoted to praise and correcting his markup.

All in all it’s a great resource for anyone who’s involved with web design or producing web content in any way shape or form. Bookmark it, send the link to your clients, your friends, your mom, your dog (your cat already knows).

It’d be so cool if everyone understood this stuff. Perhaps that’s just be the web nerd in me.

Read it at “Web Nerd Terminoloy (Explained)“.