(via cjsmith) (and for "friends list" assume both incoming and outgoing, lj isn't useful to me as an rss reader, only for acls, so my read-friends list is almost empty...)

Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does:The band (and I think the album) named "Big Jim Gettys". Picked up in Disc Diggers in davis^2, entirely because of the ( Read more... )

The title comes from an essay about the founding/funding of Excite in the weblog of one of the founders. It's a more active way of saying "opportunity begets opportunity", or even "bias for action", but with better use of underlying meaning - if you visualize it, you think about passing them on/sharing, that cookies are good (it's not "take a ( Read more... )

The only audioblog post you should ever listen to.

Powell's is running an essay contest. 300-750 words on What was your most memorable reading experience of the last ten years?Ignoring the details of the contest, and focussing on the question, I read not quite as much as I'd like, yet more than most - and thus have a variety of memorable reading experiences. Breaking them down into categories ( Read more... )

I finally finished Jef Raskin's book "The Humane Interface" and have promised enough people comments that I figured I'd just write a review - and livejournal turns out to be the most convenient place for me to put it up and get feedback, so here it is.

Jef Raskin's name has come up numerous times over the years, as a user interface design god - ( Read more... )