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Subject:Re: Is there a term for this? From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:Joe Weinmunson <litlfrog -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:35:43 -0800
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Joe Weinmunson <litlfrog -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> A friend of mine wonders:
> "So if you have a list of items on a website, printed document, or other
> means of communication, and someone doesn't notice one of them, it seems to
> me that moving everything to the top in bold blinking colored fonts, while
> it might briefly solve the problem, does so by causing the problem for the
> next two times . . . is there a term for what I'm talking about, and is it
> a concept in use?"
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