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title: "Further Random Evening Thoughts"
date: 2005-04-27T22:10:01-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/04/27/further-random-evening-thoughts/
author: Les Orchard
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# Further Random Evening Thoughts

* "*The Modern with the warrior, the mean with the stride, the Tom with the sawyer, And the mean, mean, mean, mean pride.*" 

  [Mindless Self Indulgence][msi] has done the best deconstruction of [Rush][rush]'s Tom Sawyer I've ever heard.  I'm still bouncing after numerous obsessive replays.

<img src="http://www.decafbad.com/2005/04/globe-dock.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 0 5px 5px 10px" />

* Ecto, OmniWeb, Colloquy, Firefox, NetNewsWire.  There are just far too many icons on my dock based on globe imagery.  I can't find any links, but I swear someone made just this observation not too long ago.  

  I mean, come on, I understand that the internet is world wide and has global reach and all that--but can I get a little more variation in icon design here?  :)  At least Safari's compass gives a nod back to the "Navigator" theme from *ye olden days* of Netscape.  
  
  Can I get a different overall shape at least?  A triangle or trapezoid, maybe?  These all tend to smudge into vague circles at low magnification, or in the pre-coffee morning hours.  I'd be fine if NNW dropped the globe and stuck with the satellite.  Colloquy might be cool just as a funky megaphone.  And, maybe ecto could play up that pen theme.
  
  Ah well--I wouldn't be grousing if I didn't rely on these apps daily.

[rush]: http://www.rush.com
[msi]: http://www.mindlessselfindulgence.com/inside/music.php

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                <a href="#comment-221085022" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-04-27T23:09:13">2005-04-27T23:09:13</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Holy crap, MSI covers Rush on their new album?  THAT IS AWESOME!  AYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221085025" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-04-28T18:23:45">2005-04-28T18:23:45</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Heh, just bought the new album. These guys are geniuses.</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221085026" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-04-28T19:17:51">2005-04-28T19:17:51</time></a>
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            <div class="content">I don't know about recently but I did complain about this exact thing a few years back.

http://radiofreeblogistan.com/2002/11/18/tip_for_icon_designers.html

I still have to spread out dock icons that look similar just so I can stab at them with my peripheral vision without missing.</div>
            
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            <div class="content">xian: Heh, maybe my concept of recent has stretched a bit, because I think that might just be the complaint I had in mind.</div>
            
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            <div class="content">That Tom Sawyer cover is definitely worth a bottle cap.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=56766634&selectedItemId=56766642</div>
            
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