8. Top Ten Design Mistakes of 2005
Jakob Nielsen, usability guru, has released his top ten web design mistakes for 2005. Marcus and Paul review these results and share their pearls of wisdom on the subject!
Fatal Hit-And-Run On Near North Side
A 29-year-old man was killed in a two-car hit-and-run crash in the Near North Side’s River North neighborhood early Monday. (Read on Source)
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PSP Upgrade Puts Pedal to the Metal
Sony's latest firmware update for its PlayStation Portable gaming device unleashes the full power of the machine's processor, accelerating its CPU speed from 266 MHz to 333 MHz. Although the increased speed does not affect games currently being sold, those under development could afford players an improved gaming experience, but at the cost of shorter battery life.
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"I start doing my work in Sitemaps, and all of a sudden - without ANY message/warning - I find myself in the Sitemaps for my personal account again."
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Culture Climbing
Transitioning out of vacation. Went to the Elephant & Castle at 12th and Penn and had dinner with a gaggle of academics and literati. Michael Dirda had the best line: He said he reads a lot of science fiction and genre literature "to avoid having to read another novel about adultery in Connecticut."
Then, off to a book party for Dana Thomas, a Newsweek writer and former colleague at the Style section, who is getting raves for her book on the commodification of luxury goods. I scrupulously avoided looking for bloggable material -- I was in civilian clothes, in other words -- but I did talk to a fellow blogger about blogging. Shop talk. The page view thing. And now have mentioned it. It's a sickness.
But I have to be honest: My head is still in summer mode, which means it takes all of my psychic strength simply to wear long pants.
Here's my current obsession: I need to stage a major surge to overcome this menace. I'm told that the late Henry Mitchell, when asked what to do when a garden gets infested with bindweed, advised, "Move."
But in fact we just adapt, and learn to find beauty amid disorder:
He had little patience for people who want their flowers to be foolproof and in continuous bloom. A foolproof flower, such as the stiff, relentless black-eyed Susan, can never break your heart. Henry liked flowers that could "make a lady squeal." He loved his bearded irises, old roses, and peonies. He thought they bloomed for just the right length of time, smartly disappearing before you can tire of them. If you bemoaned that a particular rose only flowered once a year and for such a short period, he would advise you to take a vacation from work in order to stay at home and watch it bloom. He did.
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Uh-oh. This can't be good:
Astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly
a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as
stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen "dark matter."
While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale
structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all."Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even
expected to find one this size," said Lawrence Rudnick of the
University of Minnesota.
[Update: I've been thinking about this all morning and have two rather obvious thoughts:
First, if we could penetrate this enormous void, we might not find ordinary matter or dark matter, but we would discover billions and billions of unmatched socks.
Second, the void was surely created by a technologically advanced civilization in which someone at an "open house" saw a mysterious switch on the wall and flipped it.]
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Here's the L.A. Times story on Pace preparing to recommend a cut in the number of American soldiers in Iraq.
Any discord among the top U.S. generals could be awkward for Bush, who professes to rely heavily on advice from military leaders. But there also is tremendous pressure for military officers to speak with one voice and defer to Petraeus and other field commanders. It remains possible that the Joint Chiefs may opt to weaken their stance before approaching Bush.According to a senior administration official, the Joint Chiefs in recent weeks have pressed concerns that the Iraq war has degraded the U.S. military's ability to respond, if needed, to other threats, such as Iran.
The chiefs are pushing for a significant decrease in troop levels once the current buildup comes to an end -- perhaps to about half of the 20 combat brigades now in Iraq. Along with support units, that would lower the U.S. presence.
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Good NPR piece on Michael Connelly, where he says straight-out that Harry Bosch is based on Philip Marlowe.
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The next president probably won't be a veteran, reports our Peter Baker:
Jackson, the military historian, said he thinks the change in leadership makes a difference in terms of policy if not politics. "When you have leaders who haven't gone [to war], I do think it changes the equation a little bit," he said. "It's a little bit worrisome. People who have actually been to war ... are actually a little less inclined to go to war. Generals know what war's about and they're less enthusiastic to go rocketing off than civilians." On the other hand, many former Clinton aides say he was so sensitive about his lack of service that for years he deferred to the Pentagon until he finally grew confident enough to make his own judgments.
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Chinese deaths in coal mines rival the toll of a war:
"More than 4,700 miners were killed last year and more than 2,000 have been killed this year, making China's coal
Bad things lurking on government sites (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The U.S. federal government took steps earlier this week to shut down Web sites in California in order to protect the public from hacked Web sites, but new incidents show that the problem is not going away any time soon.
Next-Generation Telescopes Excite Astronomers
SPACE.com - New telescopes expected to come online in the next decade could uncover clues about how the first galaxies formed, determine whether Earth-like planets are common around other stars and provide new insight into our solar system's murky history, scientists say. (Read on Source)
VRM: Consumers Take Control
If you are in London on April 24th, you might want to check out the next monthly VRM Hub meeting. What is VRM, you wonder? For starters, VRM, or vendor relationship management, is the brainchild of Doc Searls, senior editor of Linux Journal and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto.
Google Opens Its Templating Technology
OStatic: "Google is on a roll. Hot on the heels of releasing its internal Protocol Buffers data interchange format, it has open-sourced Google XML Pages (GXP). Though the project page reports this as version 0.2 beta, don't be fooled: according to a presentation about the technology, this is the templating language behind AdWords, Blogger, Google Reader, Google Analytics, and other properties."
NewsWatch: U.S. stocks brace for more earnings, jobs report on tap
The market will try to regain some momentum next week, another week heavily loaded with earnings, with investors also awaiting the June jobs report and second-quarter growth figures for an update on the health of the economy.
Julia Allison on her Job In/Security and Going for the Oprah Model
Julia Allison chats with Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson about her recent cover story, Reputation Economics 101 and getting what she wants.
Weekly PC Sales: Blizzard and EA Keep Dominating
Per its weekly tradition, research firm NPD has provided its regular update on the sales of PC software at North American retailers, this time covering July 27 to August 2.
After topping the charts for the past few weeks, Her's Nancy Drew was bested by EA Maxis' regular chart resident The Sims 2 Double Deluxe. Both EA and Blizzard continued their usual domination, with each responsible for 4 of the week's best sellers.
- The Sims 2 Double Deluxe / EA Maxis / $30 (Average)
- Nancy Drew: The Phantom Of Venice / Her Interactive / $19 (Average)
- World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest / Blizzard / $39 (Average)
- Spore Creature Creator / EA Maxis / $10 (Average)
- World Of W...
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Russians begin Georgia handover
Russian troops have begun handing over control of the area around the town of Gori to Georgian security forces. A top Russian general refused to say when troops would withdraw - they would remain for days to remove weaponry and help restore law and order in Gori. (Read on Source)
Teens Settling for Less Car, Too
The economy has hurt not only Mom and Dad, but teenage son and daughter as well, who are being asked to pick up more of the tab on the purchase of a new vehicle than they have in previous years.
Thanks to gas prices, there's also been a big shift in the types of vehicles teens are getting, as they're being asked to pick up more of the gas tab as well.
About 400,000 new vehicles are purchased for teens each year. Compact and smaller econo cars like the Chevy Cobalt and Ford Focus account for 24 percent of sales to teens this year, up sharply from only 15 percent a year ago.
Compact SUVs like the Jeep Wrangler, however, also account for 24 percent of all vehicles bought for teens this year, but that's down sharply from 33 percent of sales last year.
A study by CNW Marketing Research, which focuses on why people buy the vehicles they do, also found that thanks to the economy the vehicles teens are getting are low-end models. The average transaction price is $16,000 in 2008, down from $19,200 in 2007 and well below the nationwide average transaction price for all ages this year, $27,800.
While 29 percent of parents picked up the tab on their teen's new vehicle in 2007, only 26 percent are paying for the vehicle this year. Meanwhile, 44 percent of those teens are being asked to kick in some dough on the payments, up from 38 percent a year ago.
One other stat: 58 percent of vehicles purchased for teens are domestics, versus 37 percent coming from Japanese or South Korean automakers. That domestic dominance is falling steadily, though; it accounted for 63 percent in 2000, while Asian makes have grown in popularity, up from 32 percent of the mix in 2000.
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Severe Stress More Common Among Long-term Cancer Survivors
Long-term survivors of adult cancers are almost twice as likely to report psychological distress severe enough to cause moderate to serious problems functioning in social, work or school situations, compared to the general population, according to a large, national study.
Innogenetics to Take 7.5M Charge in Third Quarter
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MuscleTech Wants 24 Ephedra MDL Cases Dismissed
NEW YORK - MuscleTech Research and Development Inc. on Nov. 5 in the ephedra multidistrict litigation moved to dismiss 24 individual ephedra cases that were settled as the result of mediation in the company's bankruptcy proceedings (In Re: Ephedra Products Liability Litigation, 04 MDL 1598 [JSR]; In Re: MuscleTech Research and Development, Inc., No. 06 Civ. 538 [JSR]; In Re: RSM Richter, Inc. v. Sharon Aguilar, No. 06 Civ. 539 [JSR], S.D. N.Y.; See January 2007, Page 13). Full story on lexis.com
Microsoft Does MSN Toolbar Distribution Deal With Sun Microsystems!
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our Full RSS feed to get a daily digest of news around search engine industry. Microsoft is going strong with its strategy to craft search shares by gaining more number of distribution partners. (Read on Source)
In Mumbai, Bloggers and Twitter Offer Help to Relatives (PC World)
PC World - Bloggers pitched in offering information and other help to people worldwide as Indian police and commandos battled it out Thursday with armed terrorists in two top hotels and a residential complex in south Mumbai.
Java and Linux - an open marriage in search of success
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Another Online Executive Leaves Microsoft
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RoadLoK Motorcycle Locking System Now Featured at Bruce Rossmeyer's Daytona Harley-Davidson Dealersh
Bruce Rossmeyer's Daytona Harley-Davidson® is now equipping all new motorcycles with a RoadLoK® Defender™ motorcycle locking system. (PRWeb Dec 18, 2008)
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Veeple: Enhance Your Online Videos, Engage Your Viewers
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