The Dingo Times

When we have clients who are thinking about Flash splash pages, we tell them to go to their local supermarket and bring a mime with them. Have the mime stand in front of the supermarket, and, as each customer tries to enter, do a little show that lasts two minutes, welcoming them to the supermarket and trying to explain the bread is on aisle six and milk is on sale today.

– Jared Spool, Macromedia User Interface Engineering.  This was given as guidance in 2003.  2011 and we’re still stuck with loads of Flash Trash.

MarketingSherpa: Uproar over Anti-Flash Intro Survey Results.

Jack Welch ready to fight

“I wouldn’t admit it if I did.”

– Jack Welch, on whether he knows any of the board members of HP. (via WSJ.)

“There is what I call the creepy line,” he said at an event at the Newseum. “The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”

– Eric Schmidt at The Hills Hillicon Valley.