The KISS principle & weather

by | Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Keep It Simple Stupid is one of those adages you hear lots of times, but here is a website that has truly taken it to heart. See how an online weather related website can be taken to its logical, simplest extreme. Check out Umbrella Today?

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2 Comments

  1. Ken Dirkin

    I have a live 24 hour a day weather feed in my office…it’s the window.

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