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To Hate Magento is Divine ...

Magento made huge waves in the open source shopping cart community less than two years ago. The platform was the slickest, easiest to use out-of-the-box, and most robust eCommerce option web developers had ever seen. For designers, it never came close to

Twitter Births New Disorder

Blunt Words for Design School Students

After many years of providing free advice and countless hours spent reviewing resumes and portfolios, we can honestly report that we are a very hard-to-impress lot at 16toads.  Which is a nice way of saying we don't fear for our jobs.  Why?  Well, aside from

Being a jackass will not help your bottom line

It is a rather depressing thing when you look around, everywhere, and realize how few people there are who do right by others simply because it is the right thing to do. This isn't to say that there are not plenty of good, honest people out there who

14 year old political prodigy my ass

Sarah Palin. 

Joe the Plumber. 

And, now Jonathan Krohn. A 14 year old wunderkind who wrote a book (with the help of ___ ) about what it means to be a conservative. Prodigy? I think not.

The boy can be more aptly described as a pubescent parrot whose parents

Educationally Challenged:  Improving the state of web education in our nation’s colleges.

A List Apart recently published two advertorials written by two active members of the Web Standards Project. Brighter Horizons for Web Education by Aarron Walter is an advertisement for a curriculum he has helped develop for teaching web standards at the

Do you understand Darwin’s Theory of Evolution?

CBS Sunday Morning broadcast a segment this morning celebrating the 200th anniversary of Darwin's Theory of Evolution. At the conclusion of the story, the results of a poll were shown.  I don't recall the exact numbers, but the results went something like