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baltoo on Aug 4, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Where to hide your money - advice from a burglar

In graphical design I've heard this being mentioned as the "Pink Elephant", i.e. "obvious misses" that the client can easily clank down on. This makes it easier to keep the integrity of the overall design.

wallflower on Aug 4, 2009 [–]

In publishing, non-obvious mistakes are used to detect copying.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

mbenjaminsmith on Aug 5, 2009 | [–]

That's pretty cool...

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