Month: July 2010
FiveThirtyEight – Politics Done Right: Cap-and-Trade is Dead; Long Live Cap-and-Trade
Nate Silver once again wins points for not just being a great statistician but an astute political observer.
52 Weeks of UX – Time to Delight
Let’s focus on making great software that delights the customer, ok.
BBC News – US border violence: Myth or reality?
BBC News gets into the act on discussing the myth behind the Texas/Mexico border being super violent.
Skepticblog – The Reasonableness of Weird Things
People believe in irrational things because they accept the evidence for it, they just typically don’t access all of the evidence or the evidence that is more accurate.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers
New exceptions to the DMCA, the most important of these has to be the ability to break DVD encryption for fair use.
bluesmoon – Handling Date/Times and timezones
What are the basic rules for storing times in a web application.
Drawar – Sometimes A Grid Can Save You
A grid is an important design element for almost all designs.
Scientific American – The New Normal? Average Global Temperatures Continue to Rise
More and more the norm for local weather bears out that our planet is becoming warmer and warmer.
Marco.org – School grades are hopelessly broken
Grades are just a waste of resources.