The first thing to know about trigonometery

Very simple, but very effective. Cosine, sine, tangents, all that crap is meaningless. But, a simple animation is brilliant.

Advertising & Guilt by association

Seeing fancy, high end brands running ads on The Pirate Bay is kind of like genuine Louis Vutton bags being hocked at a flea market. I wonder if Helmsley’s dog is in charge of buying online advertising.

Or, maybe people who pirate media use their unspent money to stay at high end hotels.

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog

If this doesn’t make sense, you’ve probably never had to browse hundreds of fonts.

Via Typophile

(Hint: the subject of this post contains all 26 letters in the English language)

On the limitations of listening to customers

On the limitations of listening to customers…

“When we were working on the program we asked our current Explorer owners, ‘Do you guys need the ability to go off road’ and 100% said ‘Absolutely, yes,” said a Jay Ward, a Ford spokesman. “When we asked them, ‘How often do you go off road?’ 70% said ‘Never.”

Ford on the creation of the Ford Explorer