Dutifully paging, right to left, through a score or so of translated manga, I register the buzz of platter-eyed characters engaged in well-designed, pointless violence.
Their changes to the original design were minute and pointless, tinkering designed only to justify exhorbitant fees.
But often, people send pointless emails designed to keep others in the loop - or to prove that they were "working" at 7 30am.
Mpire, Hulett's Seattle start-up, just unveiled a new Web application designed to help marketers cut out such wasteful and pointless ad spending.
And whether it's designed to look this way or not, the implication is that a lot of policy divergence would be rendered pointless.
The AEP is a review instrument designed to determine the reasons identifying inappropriate use of a bed-day, but with the aim of building doctors' awareness and promoting action and decision-making, without which any review is pointless.
If not, "open design" risks seeming pointless.
It was provocative, risky, weird, technically advanced, filled with dazzling though possibly pointless designs, and also potentially offensive.
Arguing for the need of user involvement in a modern book on product design is as pointless as a discussion about the need to know the rules of arithmetic in an advanced mathematics textbook.
But philanthropy, like any action, is pointless if we're not thinking about what we want to achieve and then designing solutions that get us there.
Such considerations often motivate the choice of one design but they are pointless once a study was executed and the data are in.
