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Choosability in 1938 - Design of the ballot paper

By Marek Sotak on Mon, 2012-05-14 09:15

I have stumbled upon this interesting ballot paper dated back to 10 April 1938, when Austrian people had to decide whether they want to join Hitler's Reich or not.
You can notice how big the "Ja" - "Yes" is large and positioned in the centre of the ballot while "Nein" - "No" is much more smaller and positioned to the right. Wondering how big influence had this design on the people's decision. The Nazis claimed to have received 99.7% of the vote in favor.

Drupal Inline Form Errors

By Marek Sotak on Mon, 2012-03-12 19:00

For the last two years I am bending Drupal UI as much as possible and approach it rather differently than I did before. Hacking the modules is not a scarry part of the development process anymore, while keeping the patches with changes available for later upgrades. It does come with a price that you have to be careful and review every upgrade, but it also has its benefits in freedom of doing it your way. Sometimes the workarounds (Drupal way) takes longer than changing one line in the code and usually these changes are often not re-usable and of no use to others.