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I think there's some sort of genius in there. Its somewhat like playing the piano and faking playing the wrong notes intentionally - its a lot harder to fake playing badly than it is to actually play bad (if that makes sense)
This site gives me the same feeling -- raw selling.
Edit: respectfully fixed a typo.
The direct response industry continues to use long sales letters and "ugly" design to great effect. It's the same kind of a/b testing that agile UX practitioners espouse that produced "Red gets read!" lore in direct marketing. Still gives me the heabie jeabies looking at that stuff though.
Here's Ling's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?authToken=qSpd&id=3543... I think there's some sort of genius in there. Its somewhat like playing the piano and faking playing the wrong notes intentionally - its a lot harder to fake playing badly than it is to actually play bad (if that makes sense)
Aaaand it's down. lingscars.com will never understood why a scary DDoS from a "Hacker site" hit them..
"Are those traffic lights real? Yes! There is another set of traffic lights, hidden to the left of the camera, too! They keep my staff awake with visual stimulation in the same way that my website invigorates my visitors!"
The office looks just like the website.
Here's Ling's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?authToken=qSpd&id=3543... I think there's some sort of genius in there. Its somewhat like playing the piano and faking playing the wrong notes intentionally - its a lot harder to fake playing badly than it is to actually play bad (if that makes sense)
Does she have a public profile? The link you provided requires auth. I think she's fascinating and inspiring.
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Her site is fun. I remember a while ago, you could go to the site map and it'd been laid out like a concentration camp. The visitors at various pages/camp locations would be little humanoids with the relevant browser logo for the head. She sells cars for a living; she's not an elite hacker, just a curious one. Also, being a speaker of British English, she would never design her site 'ironically', because irony in Bri…
> Her site is fun. I remember a while ago, you could go to the site map and it'd been laid out like a concentration camp. The visitors at various pages/camp locations would be little humanoids with the relevant browser logo for the head. "Fun" and "concentration camp" are two words that should never be used in the same context. > She sells cars for a living; she's not an elite hacker, just a curious one. Well obvious…
Not everyone is deathly afraid of dark humour. Stand-up comedy in particular is full of it, yet people still seem to think of it as 'fun'.
The arguing semantics thing was just that, which is why it was marked as an addendum with the 'also'.
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> Her site is fun. I remember a while ago, you could go to the site map and it'd been laid out like a concentration camp. The visitors at various pages/camp locations would be little humanoids with the relevant browser logo for the head. "Fun" and "concentration camp" are two words that should never be used in the same context. > She sells cars for a living; she's not an elite hacker, just a curious one. Well obvious…
"Fun" and "concentration camp" are two words that should never be used in the same context. Not everyone is deathly afraid of dark humour. Stand-up comedy in particular is full of it, yet people still seem to think of it as 'fun'. The arguing semantics thing was just that, which is why it was marked as an addendum with the 'also'.
Oh I love dark humour, but there are some things we shouldn't trivialise and concentration camps are one of those things (if you had to sit through the same stories I had about your grandparents time in such camps, then I'm sure you'd agree).