The Panic Status Board by Cabel, Steve and Neven. WebKit-powered via AJAX and various APIs, displayed full-screen in Chrome running on a Samsung professional display. Fantastic.
This will serve as some great inspiration for the web-based iPhone application I’ve been building.
the ragbag: know your commonplace figurative uses of animal shit compounds -
- bullshit · connotes hypocrisy, lies, and red tape as in why should i put up with all this bullshit?. to bullshit is to bluff or to make small talk.
- horseshit · connotes crumminess as in he did a horseshit job, and this motor is running horseshit.
- chickenshit · means “something petty”…
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I realize “butterfly” provided the correct amount of syllables, but Mothra is a moth.
Mozilla has posted these Firefox 4.0 Mac mockups. They look a bit contrasty and noisy to me, and the background loading indicator looks very awkward, but overall there are some nice new ideas being introduced.
Interesting that Mozilla is going with the tabs-above design. A beta of Safari had this, users revolted, Apple caved, and tools are above tabs again. We’ll see if Firefox 4 ships this way. I prefer it.
“If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it’s because we’ve shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like HTML5.” —
Ian Fette, Gears Team, Hello HTML5 (via webkitbits)
So… this happened. BAM! Know what else can be replaced by HTML 5? Flash.
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When meeting a girl at a bar to discuss her boyfriend problems, don’t:
1.) Refer to yourself when replying to her woes- “Well, I would never say that to you.”
2.) Reference specific facts about your and her relationship- “In the 4 months I’ve known you…”
3.) Earnestly reveal details about your prior relationships that distantly relate to your present company’s troubles- “Honest to God because of [girlfriend X] I learned how to communicate with the people close to me… Like you.”
Just some brief knowledge realized while in awkward proximity to a key discussion in the developmental period of a new (and likely short) relationship.
Bonus tip: if her vocational aspirations are “music marketing”, gtfo.
The author has a point. An incredibly valid point. An underemphasized point about “old” gamers.
I may not be old, but I am beyond the prime of most gamers. (The reservation in the previous statement is to reassure myself that I could succeed again one day). I’m old enough to desire “better”, more dynamic gameplay. 2:1 kill to death ratio; done it. Obscene killstreak lengths; done. 100% achievement unlocks; check. Tactical team communication and execution; … Uh, not quite.
I’m too busy having my sexuality analyzed and my balls busted for adhering to common tactical strategies.
I want a good, cooperative experience, dammit!
Whose responsibility is that? The developer? Maybe they can facilitate that (case in point: M.A.G), but it’s really up to us, the players to organize. Someone tell me how. kthx
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It’s easy to read this and be cynical about “how dumb everyone is”. But there are some seriously deep issues to analyze here for anyone interested in HCI.
stevenf, while I respect your expertise in this field, I believe your assessment is inaccurate.
The problem here is that the infrastructure is too easy to understand partially. No one ever munged their way onto ReadWriteWeb while looking for Facebook using Lynx. That’s because to do anything from the command line, despite the power it provides, you need a very deep, very specialized of understanding of how computers (and by extension the Internet) work. Neal Stephenson’s metaphor of free tank is very apt.
Graphical user interfaces, broadband connections, human-friendly URI’s, web browsers—all these things have lowered the bar tremendously. Some say that touch interfaces have dropped it even lower. That seems awesome, until you realize that these people are fumbling around with extremely powerful devices that have the potential to utterly ruin lives.
If these AOLiens can blunder their way onto ReadWriteWeb while looking for Facebook, just imagine how they’d do on a phishing site—or a malware trap? What if someone of them are using company machines full of proprietary and sensitive data? This is a near-daily occurance that’s sapping millions of dollars worth of productivity out of the economy.
We don’t need easier interfaces. We need more educated users.
+1 for education
This RWW Facebook Login fiasco is the reason Sarah Palin almost became the Vice President of the United States.
For those just joining us, please click through stevenf’s post.