Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Lilith __,
ah, the birth of serifs..
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Tom Beard,
we don't expect scientists to be graphic designers
But we do expect them to have the professionalism to know their limits and call in help. I've seen better from any high school (basic design, that is, not the science which is brilliant).
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
epicdesignfail
Agreed - font was the least of it. The garish block colours and boxes around everything really honoured the 1980s/90s roots of CERN's other great contribution, the world wide web.
However they must have been downright impossible to read from even a few rows back. Good communication design is a valuable skill just like herding particles and crunching numbers.
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Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to TracyMac,
You lose many of the shitty status cues embodied in mufti clothing
True, though I recall the wealthier kids favouring expensive optional blazers, better shoes and suchlike. The girls would also use whatever latitude they could negotiate to preserve social status displays in jewelery, etc.
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to kiwicmc,
The 12 year old still hasn't forgiven me for paying for a Bruno Mars Piano Tribute
heh. seems fair
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to TracyMac,
There's a mighty gap developing
verily
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
face-to-face
that will evolve new forms
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Martyn Bradbury makes some observations after the round of Save TVNZ7 meetings he helped conduct around the country.
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to Islander,
Understood. There is a high overlap between age and wealth in every society - and here that includes many people older than boomers. I'd be surprised if audiences for those cultural forms tend to the young and brown (unlike the ones who prefer hip hop for instance).
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to Islander,
The wealthy are not necessarily the people born between 1946 & 1966
never said they were