Enter the useit.competition and redesign Jakob Nielsen's Website... This looks interesting.

The new Boo isn't quite as annoying as it used to be. Some of the navigation's still a little funky though, and since when are they selling this nasty bit of goth accessory.

Hmmm. I just noticed that the link I posted for the goth accessory was broken by their frameset. This is what I was actually looking at...

Read an autopsy.

I think I cehcked this before - the last time I ate at the local chinese buffet, but it's so much easier online...

Fun game. A little difficult to pick up since all the instructions are in Norwegian or Swedish or some Scandinavian language, but hey - if you can't pick up a game from context, then you should throw your Gameboy/PS/N64/Sega/PC out the window...

Get help now! You know you need it.

Heh! If it works, it works...

Good usability information.

Portrait of the CEO as a stinky-head.

Late in the day, I find this article defending electoral votes. This is similar to what I had read a year or two ago. Well-reasoned. Can this be another case of human intuition going against the math, similar to the "which door should you choose" dilemma? More later...

Top Ten Dot Cons: Home Page. Be on your guard, and warn those less savvy than you.

Reports of the Death of the Dot-Com Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

These guys were swapping votes in order to defeat the electoral college method of taking the vote away from the american people. Now posted on their site: "We have just received word from the California Secretary of State that offering to 'broker the exchange of votes' is a violation of California state law". Of course! It PISSES ME OFF that the american public can pick one president and our representative democracy can choose another one. I think the electoral college is a pile of hooey, and I challenge anyone to explain to me why it represents the american public's interests better than a straight majority vote! I know it's part of the original design of the Constitution, but that doesn't make it seem any less fair to me. This article talks some about it, but I remain unconvinced.The only benefit I see is that it guarantees that no one region (i.e. east/west coast) can dominate the election, and it seems to me that could be worked out in other ways...

Ho ho ho. Oops, wrong holiday. I meant "Ha ha ha".

Another Halloween tidbit... what a bit of rot...

In honor of this, October 31st, Halloween, The Halloween Documents. It may not be quite as big a deal today as it was the day I (or you) first read it, but it's still a damning indictment of Microsoft's predatory and evil business strategies. Shiver

Illuminaries speak on the future of software. Tog, Cooper, Winblad, and many others...

I found this article very interesting. Subtitled "Bulding a Runtime for the Future of Development Collaboration", the article by highly experienced ex-MS project managers, intorduces theCore: A First Look at Protocols for Collaborative Behavior. Now, I'm not sure that The Human OS is the best description of this, although I will reserve judgement until I finish the series of articles. But seeing as how our Human OS is basically hardwired into our wetware, I think that we're talking more about patches and new applications and plug-ins, rather than an overhaul of the old limbic and nervous systems...

How to prevent theft of your source code!

After you buy here, maybe you hunt down some illegal nauga farms. (You know, naugahide? [sic])

The fact that they changed historical data is a scary one. Granted Bill Gates as hacker extraordinaire is amusing, but the fact that you may not be able to trust what you read from verifiable and trusted sources is a very threatening one. Revisionist history? Pshaw! Welcome to The Revisionist Daily.

In the beginning, Turing created the Machine...

Police officer in LA fatally shoots actor at Halloween party, plus analysis.

Heh.

I don't even know what the content is like, but the navigation on this site is really interesting. It reminds me of the game Sanitarium, in that the navigation is completely hidden until you need it. By the way, Sanitarium is a game that provided my wife and I entertainment for night after night. It was like watching a movie together, but better. I highly recommend it.

The buzzword compliant dictionary. example: Napsterized: Best we can tell, you’ve been Napsterized when the courts say you can’t give away another person’s products for free.

Amusing text adventure. I haven't played it enough yet, but I think it might be R-rated. YMMV.

I already knew that I appreciated Bill Bradley's viewpoint. But some of the others in my list were a surprise...

Though read a looooong time ago, I just found a link to this great story. In some ways, it reminds me of the R. Crumb comics floating around the house when I was but a wee nipper.