Here’s a UI design consideration I hadn’t previously encountered, from a discussion of the on board trip computer in the Buick Enclave:
The display has a perfect location in the gauge cluster, right where the driver can see it. But the controls are located just below the radio. I guess I could get used [...]
I just watched New England become the first team in NFL history go 16-0 in the regular season, joining the 1972 Miami Dolphins as the only teams to finish the regular season undefeated in NFL history. Is there any sports fan in America who wouldn’t want someone like Bob Kraft to own their favorite team? [...]
Dahlia Lithwick has compiled a top ten list of the Bush administration’s dumbest legal arguments of the year. I’d forgotten some of these wonders of spurious logic. For example, number 5 is a classic:
Everyone who has ever spoken to the president about anything is barred from congressional testimony by executive privilege. [...]
Freedom to Tinker is reviewing the Presidental candidates positions on all things digital, starting with Barack Obama.
I think I’ve finally gotten registration and authentication working for the old blog here, so now you should be able to register for a local account if you like or sign in using OpenID, Vox, and so forth. There are also plugins available for AOL and WordPress, I’ll probably set those up as well. [...]
Garret at Dangerousmeta points out that December 22 was the eigth birthday of his blog, and the blogs of all of the people who started when Dave Winer launched editthispage.com.
For what it’s worth, I posted my first bloglike entry back on December 15, 1998. So it’s nine years plus for me, now. I need to [...]
Search forms that use the POST HTTP method are a shabby Web development practice that I run into every day. Here’s the number one reason why using POST on search forms is a bad idea:
That’s what users see when they hit the back button to return to search results that were produced using a POST [...]
I don’t go to the movies much any more, but this weekend I managed to make it to two different ones. I went to the local art house to see No Country for Old Men, and I went to the megaplex to see Sweeney Todd. The quality of the movies aside, I was disappointed in [...]
Kayak is my first stop whenever I need to book a flight or hotel room. I still generally handle the transaction through Orbitz, but I find Kayak to be the better choice for finding flights and tracking fare changes. I’ve always wondered how the site works as a business. They do run ads, but I [...]
Bruce Schneier has a fascinating essay on how easy it is to discern someone’s identity from anonymous data. Researchers at the University of Texas discovered that by comparing moving ratings in the data set for the Netflix challenge to movie ratings from IMDB users, you can figure out who rated the movies in the anonymous [...]