EXCERCISING DYSLEXIA
Usability for Rich Internet Applications - Digital Web Magazine
Usability - ***010 - 22 Feb 2006 02:05
Foodscapes
Fantastic little miniatures in a food context made by the photographers Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle. You can also see more of them in their original context in this sadly over flashed site.
filed in: Culture, Fun - tags: miniatures, food - via Building Blog - 18 Feb 2006 16:06 - #
Try Ruby Programming
Apart from the occasional JavaScript tinkering I have basically not touched programing since the ancient days of Lingo and Hypertalk. I have wanted to play around a little with Ruby on Rails but have been put off by not knowing Ruby, but I have a strong feeling this little online Ruby tutorial might change my mind. This is web based training at its best, a really simple integration of a terminal in a web page with interactive instructions, smart, clean and effective!
filed in: Internet, Usability - tags: cbt, wbt, ruby - via WebWord - 17 Feb 2006 16:45 - #
Dead-Eye Dick trom the Daily Show
Fun, Politics - ****010 - via Airbag industries - 17 Feb 2006 15:42
Multi gesture user interface
At first I was a little skeptical about this multi touch interface demo but when they start to pan rotate and zoom maps with one two handed move I was sold. Make sure you watch the video the impressive stuff starts around half way in. And the fact that Apple has a patent on some related technology makes me all giddy that we may see some practical application of this in the not impossibly distant future.
filed in: Mac, Usability - tags: interface, gestures, touch - 16 Feb 2006 12:15 - #
Yahoo Design Pattern Library
David forwarded me a link that Yahoo has launched a design pattern library. It is still a sparse compared to Welie’s pattern library but has some nice dynamic dynamic patterns like auto fill in and dynamic rating. One thing that is extra nice is that yahoo have licensed it under the creative commons license.
filed in: Usability - tags: design, patterns - 15 Feb 2006 11:09 - #
Pursue your passion!
Dave Pollard talks about models to find the intersection of your genius, your passion and your purpose. I really like intersection diagram he has made and quite a lot of the models are new to me and will need exploring.
The multi dimensional weblog
In the coming years, more flexible content structures and more machine readable content will change blogs into fully-fledged online extensions of our identities.filed in: Culture, Internet, Web Design - tags: microformats, blogs, social software - 08 Feb 2006 16:06 - #
Good Night, and Good Luck
George Clooney
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By telling the story of Edward Murrow vs. Senator Joseph McCarthy, George Clooney crafts a powerful message by simply letting us draw our own parallels to the current political climate.
The black and white and photography mixed in with original footage and jazz soundtrack ads a lot to the fabulous performance of the actors. David Strathairn as Edward Murrow is absolutely stunning.
Power-laws solutions to social ills
Malcom Gladwell has an intriguing take on homelessness, bad cops and car pollution.
Power-law solutions have little appeal to the right, because they involve special treatment for people who do not deserve special treatment; and they have little appeal to the left, because their emphasis on efficiency over fairness suggests the cold number-crunching of Chicago-school cost-benefit analysis.
By taking examples from homelessness, bad cops and car pollution, the article explains that we have tended to look at these issues as endemic problems but when you look at them more carefully you see that that in each case very few represent the biggest challenge and we need to gear our solutions to solving them in realistic ways.
filed in: Politics - tags: Power-law, Homeless, Car pollution - 08 Feb 2006 11:43 - #
In Search of the Holy Grail - A List Apart
Web Design - ***010 - via Christian - 03 Feb 2006 18:08