May 2007
68 posts
“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”
—Margaret Thatcher
David Soldier - Thai Elephant Orchestra →
emusic.com
“A surprisingly good collection of songs played almost entirely by elephants.”
Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element →
particletree.com
What we need is something better—something more flexible and meant for designers. Lucky for us, the solution already exists and all it needs is a little love. My friends, let me introduce you to my little friend : the button element.
Yahoo! Mindset - Intent-driven Search →
mindset.research.yahoo.com
What I was referring to a couple of posts back…
Wilders, Brinkman en De Roon zijn nauwelijks te onderscheiden van racisten →
geertwilders.nl
4.) Bent u bereid een stadionverbod af te kondigen voor alle Marokkanen voor de duur van 5 jaar als het gaat om wedstrijden tegen Marokkaanse ploegen of de Marokkaanse nationale (jeugd)ploeg?
5.) Zo neen, bent u dan bereid een verbod af te kondigen voor wedstrijden tegen Marokkaanse voetbalploegen voor de duur van 5 jaar? Zo nee waarom niet?
Building Communities with Software - Joel on Software →
joelonsoftware.com
Q. Your list of topics is sorted wrong. It should put the topic with the most recent reply first, rather than listing them based on the time of the original post.
[snip]
A. The way I do it has two advantages. One, topics rapidly go away, so conversation remains relatively interesting. Eventually people have to just stop arguing about a given point.
File under embarrassing typos in my enterprise code...
// Debugging mode on? This should be turned off on the final server that is pubicly accessable
Jane Siberry's "you decide what feels right" pricing - (37signals) →
37signals.com
The Canadian folk-pop singer Jane Siberry has a clever system: she has a “pay what you can” policy with her downloadable songs, so fans can download them free — but her site also shows the average price her customers have paid for each track. This subtly creates a community standard, a generalized awareness of how much people think each track is really worth. The result? The average price is as much as $1.30 a track, more than her fans would pay at iTunes.
“I tell people that if it’s in the news, don’t worry about it. The very definition of “news” is “something that hardly ever happens.” It’s when something isn’t in the news, when it’s so common that it’s no longer news — car crashes, domestic violence — that you should start worrying.”
—Virginia Tech Lesson: Rare Risks Breed Irrational Responses
“We tend to exaggerate spectacular, strange and rare events, and downplay ordinary, familiar and common ones.”
—Virginia Tech Lesson: Rare Risks Breed Irrational Responses
Filtering out commercial search results
Yahoo used to have an experimental feature in its labs that was similar like this, but it is something that would be great to see in a more developed and mainstream fashion: filtering out commercial search results. When searching for information on playing jazz, for example, you’ll be swamped with teaser websites for jazz courses. Would be cool to have an ability to only display informational sites, or to filter on sites that have a larger amount of content (since usually these might be more likely to be informational sites)
“Blogs and websites change all that. Now there’s an unlimited appetite for content and endless opportunity for young writers to speak and report on high-profile issues.”
—Ezra Klein: Ask Not For Whom The Whip Snaps; It Snaps For Thee
“Around Brussels, there is an unusually strong feeling of surprise and disgust that the Germans are willing to go so far to prop up their Uzbek friends. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. Germany seems to have an amazingly cheap asking price.”
—Crooked Timber » » What is Germany thinking?
