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links for 2006-04-03

  • Matthew Oliphant .:. usabilityworks.org .:. Travelocity Continues to Suck
    Matthew makes an interesting point here : “I own part of their online reputation.”
    (tags: blogging blog business travel travelocity)
  • OSX Satisfaction Chart
    Very entertaining illustration of the Mac switch experience
    (tags: apple osx mac humour funny geek usability userexperience HCI)
  • Schrodinger’s Audience
    “Both of which appear to be utterly batshit insane.” — Ben Hammersley reflects on the MySpace and Friends Reunited acqusitions
    (tags: business internet myspace web2.0 acquisitions)
  • Semantic Markup debates: versus – KuraFire Network
    “The Professional Comfort Zone is a state of mind where, after a certain amount of accomplishments, you feel you have reached enough of your long-term goal that you no longer need to work as hard and intensively on getting there.”
    (tags: webdesign webstandards debates)
  • Infovore : Hacking the user interface through tags
    “Users use tags to hack the UI. Tagging isn’t just metadata; it’s metadata you can use.”
    (tags: webdesign webdevelopment usability tags)
  • The Doctor Says
    “The Doctor has now started ringing me up and singing me songs”
    (tags: funny humour internet tv music doctorwho tombaker)
  • Guardian Unlimited Books | Extracts | Double agent
    “Norah Vincent spent 18 months disguised as a man” — that’s some pretty hardcore research! Looks very interesting from the extract, though
    (tags: gender women culture men books social society genderpolitics genderqueer dragkings)
  • The Top 10 weirdest keyboards ever – Fosfor Gadgets
    I want the Datahands. Apparently they’ll make my RSI all better.
    (tags: hardware keyboards geeks weird design funny RSI)
  • Is it a good time to start a business? (plasticbag.org)
    Tom has a nice roundup of some recent business-related blog posts
    (tags: blog web2.0 business)
  • marx and marzipan » Blog Archive » The way of the gun
    Maxine reflects on our little shooting trip in Austin this year, as well as questions that guns in general raise for her
    (tags: guns geekswithguns austin sxswi2006)
  • UserFriendly: GMail Subpoenas
    “Given the recent ruling that Google must hand over all emails — including “deleted emails” — in a Gmail account when ordered to do so, we offer this modest proposal for a new feature…”
    (tags: cartoons gmail google courts legal)
Posted by delicious @ 12:19 PM on April 3, 2006
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