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links for 2007-02-28

  • xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe
    Today’s xkcd is brilliant. I would love to see a Flickr group for “existentialist graffiti”.
    (tags: comics funny humour graffiti existentialism emotion meaning life)
  • Flickr: So What Is Inclusion?
    Flickr group for images of inclusion, started by Paddy whom I first met at the Orpheus Centre a few years ago. He is a rockstar in every way.
    (tags: inclusion diversity photos flickr groups community orpheuscentre rockinpaddy)
  • danwebb.net – The No Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications
    Nice guide to providing OpenID support in your applications
    (tags: authentification openID support development howto webapplications programming security)
  • Mark’s Digital Farm » Blog Archive » I want one
    Trust the South Africans on the blogosphere to find the beer launching machines 😉
    (tags: beer machines beerlaunchingmachine markforrester videos youtube)
  • Carsonified! » Blog Archive » Make your customers happier with this simple tip
    “Making it easier for you to help customers will dramatically improve the quality of your customer service. Make sure to spend the extra time on the app’s backend and you’ll see a huge payoff in happy customers!”
    (tags: advice business work webapplications customersatisfaction customerservice)
  • UIE Brain Sparks » Blog Archive » Usability testing is an excellent training tool
    “In my 28 years of experience of doing this work, I’ve found there is no single experience more educational than conducting usability tests.”
    I also like the “not rocket science” quote further down.
    (tags: hci interface design testing usability training understanding users)
  • To all those who were wondering, the answer is “Duh, yes”
    “To all of the bloggers out there wondering if people get up in arms about white-bread conference speaking rosters because they think conference organizers are outright showing bias against women (or minorities) when choosing those rosters, the answer is
    (tags: quotes elisacamahort conferences diversity bias discrimination speakers selection)
  • Snappy the Clam: He-Man Web Developer’s Club
    “Maybe we need to figure out what those magic forcefields keeping women out of science and technology are. I think we already have a pretty good idea though.”
    (tags: conferences diversity gender women genderpolitics barrierstoentry)
  • A List Apart: Articles: Where Our Standards Went Wrong
    “Validation might not have been the sexiest selling point for standards, but it does have very real fiscal benefits.”
    (tags: accessibility alistapart business css design development webstandards ethanmarcotte)
  • MinJungKim.com – Braindump v 5.0 » News.
    “You’d think that saying this aloud would make it feel all different and cheesy and what not but … nah… it just feels really magically right which everything about this relationship has from the beginning.” I know the feeling 😉 So happy for MJ!
    (tags: wedding comments happiness relationships)
  • Dear Technical Recruiters (by Jeremy Zawodny)
    “Everyone I talk to is having trouble finding good engineers. So when you decide to cold-call people to find out if they’re interesting in changing jobs (especially software engineering), you just might want to avoid doing to AT 6:50am!!!”
    (tags: recruitment headhunters stupid earlybirdannoystheworm)
Posted by delicious @ 9:19 PM on February 28, 2007
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    March 3rd, 2007 at 12:45 AM

    […] From xkcd, here. Via Meriblog, here. […]

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