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Comment on Morning Linkage (Mar 9) by blackdog

blackdog — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:18:24 +0000

awesome ekranoplan pictures. un-f’ing-believable. love the bronze-ian rant, too. priceless!

:-)

Comment on Morning Linkage (Feb 10) by bear

bear — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:22:02 +0000

re: the DUster. the kitten got off lucky. not only is it fugly^2, the write-up is full of inaccuracies. if that’s an air-cooled duc, i’m a pink flamingo. phoey.

Comment on scrolling direction matters by magpie

magpie — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:39:08 +0000

… and here I thought that the borg had lost it’s touch… thanx for the giggle.

Comment on scrolling direction matters by Sandro

Sandro — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:23:45 +0000

This UI design decision was made to help drive sales of the yet-to-be-released Microsoft mouse with the second scroll wheel that turns horizontal. :)

Comment on Better Explained – This is what the web can be. by Kalid

Kalid — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:04:49 +0000

Hi, thanks for the wonderful review! I’m glad you’ve found the site useful, it’s a lot of fun to write (and have the freedom to be as goofy as you want).

Yep, there’s always critics out there, but I like to keep a quote in mind when writing:

“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.”

-John Henry Newman

Comment on More on Denton’s How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web by magpie’s shiny things»Blog Archive » TQR - Denton’s Three Questions and Four Principles and an Observation of My Own.

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:35:31 +0000

[...] Recently I wrote about Denton’s How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put it on the Web. In section 4 he introduces three questions and four principles that provide useful guidance when implementing navigation systems for information architectures that rely on faceted classification. [...]

Comment on TQR- A Simplified Model for Faceted Classification – Not for the Faint of Heart by magpie’s shiny things»Blog Archive » draft - More on Denton’s How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:29:01 +0000

[...] feel better now. After my grad school deja vu experience with Simplified Facet Classification I was despairing of ever being able to bring facets to the [...]

Comment on Blue Bin Virus by magpie’s shiny things»Blog Archive » Feature Request - Search “My History”

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:16:22 +0000

[...] week ago I wrote about the big blue bin virus that struck our neighborhood. While I was pondering that particular post over my morning tea I [...]

Comment on TQR- “@toread” and “cool” Are Taggers Adding Context Back into the Miscellany? by Martin Belam

Martin Belam — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:43:37 +0000

Is it still OK to tag this post @toread in del.icio.us and come back later, or will it disappear in a puff of self-referential post-modern smoke?

Comment on TQR – Sharing Ownership of UX by jim

jim — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:52:37 +0000

cool! i’m going to pass this article around to my cow-orkers, some of them need really badly to read this :-) thanks.

jim