don’t piss off monarch air: The unidentified man swore at crew and passengers after being refused a bottle of wine on the four-hour flight from Manchester to Tenerife. He became so abusive the fed-up pilot diverted the Monarch Airlines Airbus to Porto Santo island off West Africa. After the plane touched down, the man was …
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war plan red
Back in the day, the United States drew up plans to go to war with Canada. Long since declassified, the plans were dragged out for humourous effect by the Washington Post. Out in Winnipeg — the Manitoba capital, whose rail yards were slated to be seized in the plan — Brad Salyn, the city’s director …
In-Progress Ideas for New Yorker Cartoons
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In-Progress Ideas for New Yorker Cartoons.
time’s best photos of 2005
Time magazine’s best photos of 2005.
Bill Gates’ predictions about speech recognition
Bill Gates’ predictions about speech recognition: a historical review Bill Gates, 1 October 1997: “In this 10-year time frame, I believe that we’ll not only be using the keyboard and the mouse to interact, but during that time we will have perfected speech recognition and speech output well enough that those will become a standard …
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steal these ideas
they aren’t mine anyway… at conferences, there should be a printer preloaded with perforated card stock for people to print up temporary business cards all cell phones should feature noise-cancelling microphones
fixing MS Word
You learn things when you talk to actual users: Jensen asked his product team for a list of Top 10 features wanted from users. It turned out that 4 of them were already in the product. People couldn’t find functionality: the UI was keeping them from exploring the power of the product.
interviewing sarah silverman
The Onion AV club interviews Sarah Silverman: AVC: How long do you think you would have stayed on SNL if you hadn’t been fired? SS: I don’t know. That’s a stupid question. You are a big dummy. AVC: What was it like to be fired from that show? SS: It was great!! You really are …
ordering wine
How to order wine without looking like an asshole.
bay area usability and design organizations
Silicon Valley SIGGRAPH BayDUX Interaction Design Association Society for Technical Communication San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, ACM The Information Architecture Institute and quasi-related: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility