The simple online life I direct your attention to a Fast Company feature about Google's "high priestess of simplicity," Marissa Mayer. Says she:
Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our way of approaching it closed. It's simple, it's elegant, you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it. A lot of our competitors are like a Swiss Army knife open -- and that can be intimidating and occasionally harmful.
I like the way this lady thinks.
Ah, simplicity of design. What a concept. As lovely and strange as a Ramones song.
(Link courtesy of someone I work with, who has no blog to link to, but should.)