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This website design is absurd and I love it. It works really well as a document but the skeumorph of it being a physical periodic table with samples that's also a wooden desk gets so disconnected from a physical metaphor as you drill in. Like, my desk has a zoom control?

It has that feeling of hand spun websites from the aughts maintained with such care, like a curio cabinet. It's been a long time since I just clicked around one of these. There's a lot to be said for the simple and minimalistic designs that are more conventional today, and I'm going to continue laying out my HTML that way, but in comparison they're woefully lacking in character.



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