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Author Archives: paulschreiber
guerilla usability: ice oasis hockey
For the past two years, I’ve been playing hockey at Ice Oasis. It’s a nice enough rink, but their web site is terrible. While they’ve since ditched the neon colours, the schedule page is pretty awful: you have to see all of the teams at once white text on a red background is hard to …
the YASNS spammer unmasked
At danah’s suggestion, I took the bait and sent a reply to the YASNS spammers. I picked “Carrie,” and sent her a note full of spelling mistakes and a run-on sentence: i got your email on myspacester isn’t it nice you are in san jose too now. its pretty nice but no san frnsacisco. do …
Ed Zander is a dumbass
“Screw the nano. What the hell does the nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs?” —Ed Zander, CEO, Motorola
great americans
anne tipped me off to an interesting book: Great Americans, which chronicles the stories of regular people with famous names: Did you know Elvis Presley lives – and works as a data supervisor at a hospital in Texas? That Jackie Kennedy is a sales clerk at an outlet mall in Mississippi? Ever met Marilyn Monroe, …
live 8 dvd faked up
Auto-Tune, which “helped” the Spice Girls and Cher, is being used on the Live 8 DVDs.
ln-s.net
like TinyURL and MakeAShorterLink, but, well, even shorter: ln-s.net.
fighting the RIAA
some of the folks sued by the RIAA are fighting back: “If somehow this activity was to somehow been pinned to me, it was somehow done so fraudulently,” she says. “There is no way it came from my household. “I have the least expensive computer system you can buy from Dell. The type you order …
logoworks scam
looks like logoworks is borrowing rather heavily from others’ work.
more MySpace and Friendster spam
Over at FastCupid, Brent notes some spam in his Friendster and MySpace inboxes. I’ve started getting the same thing. First, on July 5, I got this message from Friendster user Jen, whose account was deleted: Hi there, I’m Jen. I couldn’t sleep so I decided to do some browsing and happened on your ad and …