Notebook

Being a compendium of thoughts, notions, and ideas about design. And sometimes bacon.

A list of things that I have no interest in, which are therefore the cancer that is killing the interwebs

“Chip tunes”
“Steam punk”
Hipsters
98% of the content of Buzzfeed
8-bit graphics (see also: nostalgia for, games and/or art created with)
People who defend billion dollar corporations without compensation (guilty)
People who rail against one billion dollar corporation on the grounds that the billion dollar corporation they support is “more free” and “supports choice”
Nearly everything I see on Tumblr (see “hipsters”)
Facebook’s privacy policies and the lack of transparency or any iota of thoughtfulness on the part of the user thereof
Celebrity Twitter accounts not authored by said celebrity (how long does it take to write a tweet, really?)
Celebrity Facebook accounts (see above)
Celebrities
BoingBoing (see also “the home church of first world problems”)
TechCrunch/Michael Arrington
Social media
“Consumer as creator” (we have the newspapers to thank for this nonsense, I think)
Collegehumor, Gawker Media, Busted Tees and their respective staffs (see “hipsters”)
Forgetting to put IE on this list until after I’ve published it
Lists as ersatz editorials (I’m done here)

Posted by nickmjones on Wednesday, May 26th, 2010