Evening Reading: Putting the Oughts to Bed

by Garnett Lee, Dec 31, 2009 6:00pm PST

If you'd told me last New Year's Eve that a year later I'd be writing the last Evening Reading of the decade on Shacknews I'd probably have looked at you dumbfounded. Sitting here doing it this evening I couldn't be more pleased with how things have worked out. Getting reacquainted with Shack has been great. We've got a great team, a great community, and fantastic support to carry us into 2010 and well beyond.

We've been posting our games to look forward to in 2010 today. I'll have mine coming tomorrow along with a collection of our resolutions for the New Year. Hope you'll take a moment to check them out and add to the conversation when time allows. Have a fun and safe New Year's Eve whatever your celebration plans.

I'll leave you with this great quote my friend Sterling tweeted earlier today: "The world isn't coming to an end. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

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Vote for my Google redesign!

You can see it here: www.injectiondesign.com/google/

I'm currently in 4th place because the other guy is voting me down.

First, install this Firefox extension: www.webmynd.com/html/WebMyndRedesignGoogle.xpi

Then, after you FF restarts, go here: /www.injectiondesign.com/google/ , scroll to the bottom and hit that link in the yellow box. You can rate/comment on the design there. Thanks!

Dec 31, 2009 6:10pm PST

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Vote for my Google redesign! You can see it here: www.injectiondesign.com/google/ I'm currently in... : ventro
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  Woah, this is quite nice. : DrWaffles
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    Voted. You're already in second, apparently :P : DrWaffles
    - Jeez, this Professional Blue design is terrible, alignment wise. : DrWaffles
- Not bad at all : psxtim
- i like the old one better. only because it seems to have greater contrast, not that it makes your new one... : QMS|superdave
- Good lord how are you not 1st? Your competitors are horrendous! : Kentor
- you got my vote : gyokuro
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  i don't like hovering to see the url : filthysock
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    On second thoughts, I installed the xpi and used the theme for a bit and it's nice. However it lost a bun... : filthysock
    - Yeah there's definitely some issues. It's so hard to correct them because I have to make a change, wait f... : ventro
- This looks really good actually man, great job. : TabsAZ
- Awesome redesign. Great Job Ventro! : irrerno
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  the gallery of other designs is NWS for titties btw : indosauros
  - Yeah, sorry... tits get my vote. jk : deskill
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  Not to diss your design, as it's nice and all design-wise, especially the use of whitespace. However, it... : Matt Burris
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    Erm, I don't think Google is affiliated with any of this. It's a third party company that lets you use b... : iamgoat
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      Oh. Well, in that case, party on Wayne! : Matt Burris
      
      Party on Garth! Check my profile for how relevant this is to my current living situation : jingletard
- they're both equally bad. no vote : mista mista
- Instead, redesign their logo, and while youre at it bing's logo too. : not work safe
- Sorry, but I don't really like it :( There's nothing wrong with the current google results page, well,... : thecray
- you are the only one i think took the assignment seriously. good job. : dahanese
- Well that's just awesome. Very well done! : DeejayKnight
- I love this http://www.injectiondesign.com/google/newlogo.jpg It's so much more vivid, the old logo... : SpikeMeister
- wtf that marcio dias submitted two? : Jikim
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  the hovering stuff fills me with rage. this is not how a utilitarian site is designed : retarded talking dinosaur
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    if you make a version that showed all of the hover stuff by default, i would install. its very pretty, bu... : retarded talking dinosaur
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      No way, hover is awesome, it is so much cleaner (without losing functionality). : ovrlrd
      
      I like seeing the URL by default. : Fred Garvin
      
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      It does lose functionality, though. I have to hover over stuff to see its URL, rather than just seeing al... : Arceihn
      
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      You don't hover over the URL, you hover over the area of the result, so it can be in the description or w... : ovrlrd
      
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      no, it's not just because it's different, it's because the URL is important information to verify how likely the result is to be legitimate or useful.
      
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      no, it's not just because it's different, it's because the URL is important information to verify how lik... : derelict515
      
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      But it has such a large area to hover over, I just don't see it as a problem myself, unless I was someone... : ovrlrd
      
      I don't want to have to hover over 10 links on each search to scan the URLs to determine which is the mos... : derelict515
      
      I think it still looks pretty good with the URL showing. There's really no need to hide it. : Mmmmmoo
      
      on the other hand, the average clueless user has no idea how to understand the url anyway. This might be ... : master_disaster_17
      
      I'm fine with :hover for a lot of stuff, but the URL is actually very useful information. People scan th... : mathyou
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  I love the little touches you did. Also the bubbles around related searches is similar to something Apple... : ovrlrd
  - Okay I tried it, found an oddity. When you search for something that results in twitter results there is ... : ovrlrd
- Not gonna lie, that shitty extension made me lose my adress bar. Thankfully everything was fine after uni... : TheDaFox
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  Voted. Also, how do I vote down the other guy's deal-i-o? : Ride-My-Rocket
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    Nm, I think I figured it out: 1) Go to http://www.webmynd.com/look/designs/rated 2) Go to each of MÃ... : Ride-My-Rocket
    - Buenos Dias Mr Dias. : Klebold
- i like the hovering URL and cached/similar page stuff. I don't need to see it unless I'm going to click ... : valael
- I love this theme, very nice! Good job. I hope you win. : -sk-

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