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‘I value user feedback even when the user is “wrong.‒(tags: usability)
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a discussion zone.
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do this.
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either that, or get measure map working again.
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“they do not get along with members of the Baby Boom, currently those roughly 30 to 45 [47-62, as of 2006]…. [I]f the possibility exists of separating the two groups, it is not a bad idea.”
links for 2006-06-29
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as if being critiqued on flickr, etc. cracks me up.
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I’m mostly a butter gal myself, but this might be useful to know.
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“nothing in my paper warrants asking Moses to discard any of the ten commandments” 🙂
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“despair might be caused by the loss of the brain’s essential plasticity” — this article is full of “holy sh!t” moments. read it now!(tags: depression science)
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(tags: javascripty to-read)
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…we even have surveyor’s stakes already!
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“Oh, didn’t I tell you? Meg has purchased a cow.” heh. I have this book on hold at the library.
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goddamn it. that was today and tomorrow, and I can’t go tomorrow. 🙁
links for 2006-06-28
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“Only someone with an obsessive-compulsive disorder would log in to a registrar every few days just to be sure one of their domains wasn’t about to expire.” — the mighty Z has the same problem I do.
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“The school district’s latest levy had failed, so they had to cut a couple hundred thousand dollars from the budget.” why aren’t we doing that?!
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free pdf-book
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“widespread reports of U.S. boys being in crisis are greatly overstated” — an issue of no small controversy around here….
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how obnoxious/depressing is *that*?
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ppk on JS: a sort of sequel to dom scripting(tags: javascripty to-read)
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some of these are really dumb, but a few look cool.(tags: design photography)
links for 2006-06-27
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includes a recipe for roast chicken along with musings on the nature of American food.
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all linux goodness. I am thinking…thinking…thinking….
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in short: polyester is the lesser of multiple evils
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A fascinating conversation…”But it’s not people in uniform who are seizing power. It’s militarized civilians”(tags: politics conspiracy)
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okay, okay, okay, I’m gonna go to the OlyBlog get-together….
links for 2006-06-25
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what makes this cheap is the use of materials from the dump!
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paving-like surface for growing grass through. plastic!
links for 2006-06-24
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via glenda the good. almost made me cry.
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‘No more drive-through windows because we’re tired of smartalecks asking for “a side of fries.‒ — the Nose on pharmacists. (sometimes you have to find a way to laugh.)
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if they can grow them in east vancouver, why not here?(tags: garden)
links for 2006-06-23
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altho, for me, that pink wedge is more like: worrying over whether to go with a fixed or flexi-width design. 🙂
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do this later.
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WTF?(tags: weird)
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a fascinating dialog.
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similar things apply to the use of wysiwyg apps for web design.
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hey, I have a deckplans.com flier at home!
links for 2006-06-22
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going to be out of town tonight…when I get back tomorrow, will be working on this….
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scary to look at!
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doesn’t quite click for me, but I want to take another look later….
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probably the best bit of this is the list of best practice people. (the rest is a pretty standard rant on standards & education.)
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Andrea summarizes nicely.(tags: academia microformat)
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my phone isn’t made for an hour of listening…download the audio, etc. later!
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psychological tips for brainstorming.
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“The Web, or actually the Internet, is the natural home of petty factionalism like these. It’s intrinsic and inescapable.” Plus Joe’s (apparently useful) aggro challenging technique. I would like to have the (metaphorical) cojones to do that.
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I often find SvN’s proclamations annoying, but this one hits right on.(tags: productivity)
links for 2006-06-21
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“When a vice president in Windows asks you whether your team will ship on time, they might well have asked you whether they look fat in their new Armani suit.” (skip the comments!)(tags: misc_tech)
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“The Form Designed to Keep You From Doing The Stupid Thing That One Guy Did Three Years Ago” — hey, I know that form!
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college home/intranet pages are a conundrum in part because of the vast numbers of pages/sites….
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everything from “buy more RAM” to “think on paper” to “take a shower”….
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OMFG. it just clicked. this is probably how oddreview/media diet will be rewritten.
links for 2006-06-17
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relevant to conversations I’ve had with Steve D. re: blogging vs. blackboard.
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Hey, Elizabeth, should we look into this? (C’s parents are entirely computer-less, by their choice.)
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I’ve been saying for years (years, dammit!) that the intarwebs were going to see the rebirth of the serial novel. unfortunately, this is a technobabble near-future blah blah blah. Oh, and the interface is not particularly readable, either. 🙁
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emailed him to get a copy of the screencast. I think this would be a great addition to SOS or the current students page!
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“‘Better’ for Mark Pilgrim doesn’t mean better for you, and nowhere has Pilgrim implied that it does.” A really thoughtful piece on OS choices.
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way better than the SvN piece (I may rant about it later).
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A thoughtful response. (The flagship store in Austin blew my mind.)
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right on!
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at a new location(tags: photography)
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(tags: photography)
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“In their search for urban difference, hipsters want many of the same features that characterize the McMansion: granite countertops and cavernous ceilings.”
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“the oldest large-scale outdoor Christmas display in the world” — no kidding! this is two doors down from the house where I grew up. via Elizabeth.
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“These data confirm that people essentially cannot close the wage gap by working their way up the company hierarchy.”
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makes me feel 17 again watching this. 🙂(tags: webvideo)
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what a rad idea! I should try that.(tags: photography urban_studies)