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In Sunday’s New York Times, we noticed this interesting use of typography to highlight points in an opinion piece about the state of the US economy. Seems rather Victorian. (via Pic: Typographic Opinion, New York Times - PSFK.com)
In Sunday’s New York Times, we noticed this interesting use of typography to highlight points in an opinion piece about the state of the US economy. Seems rather Victorian. (via Pic: Typographic Opinion, New York Times - PSFK.com)
Когда я был на Тайване, мне рассказывали, что иногда в младших классах школы проводятся соревнования по нахождению определений в словаре. Вообразите себе язык, в котором даже поиск нужного слова в словаре считается таким же умением, как риторика или волейбол!
David Moser, Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard. (via dailymeh)
Видела я недавно другую прокуроршу, в серьгах с вензелями до самых погон: пригляделась — а это не вензель, это сердечки, и в каждом написано «Sexy». Никогда не забуду и прокуроршу на нашем процессе в Пресненском суде: стиль «красавица», образ — обложка журнала Vogue, победитель конкурса красоты Малодербетовского района Калмыкии, в феврале с голыми ногами, без чулок, но на шпильках, на телефоне висит плюшевая мартышка, и весь процесс она увлеченно шлет эсэмэски кудрявому коллеге, с коим бежит пить чай, чуть только выдастся перерыв. А потом она встала, одернула юбку и сказала: прокуратура просит приговорить к 11 годам. И снова уставилась в телефон с мартышкой.
Мосгорсуд: им с нами скучно - Бутырка-блог, Slon.ru
It’s just…you’re like my best friend, and I would hate for something you desperately want to change that. I mean, sure, we could go on some dates, maybe mess around a little and finally validate the six years you’ve spent languishing in this platonic nightmare, but then what? How could we ever go back to the way we were, where I take advantage of your clear attraction to me so I can have someone at my beck and call? That part of our friendship means so much to me.
But If We Started Dating It Would Ruin Our Friendship Where I Ask You To Do Things And You Do Them, Kimberly Pruitt, The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
That’s all really high-level, pretty obvious stuff, but here’s something more tangible—I’ve noticed a few best practices in terms of mechanics for enabling user-contributed content:
- Got to start somewhere: make the button really easy to find
- Bookmarklets + screen-scraping is the easiest way to let users to bring external web assets into the fold
- In terms of user input (data, meta-data, etc.) make it clear what’s necessary and what’s optional
- Leverage known data (time and place, any screen-scraped data, data derived from stuff the user just entered, data derived from stuff other people have entered for similar items, etc.) to enable “smart defaults”A
- Use active assistance (e.g. field auto-completion) if possible
- Allow users to preview their contribution
- Keep things really simple and straight-forward. Framing things up in self-evident structures (1,2,3; what, where when, etc.) can help
- Two options when users are finished: (1) take them back to where they started from or (2) take them to their newly uploaded content. Which alternative is best depends on the context, or you could give them the choice.
Getting users involved, David Gillis, Teehan+Lax (via ideali)
Понятие «пробный шар» возникло так: братья Монгольфье создали проект для летающего шара с горячим воздухом, но хотели убедиться в том, что он действительно сработает, прежде чем забираться в него самим. Поэтому сначала они запустили несколько пробных шаров с балластом. Затем отправили несколько животных с фермы, чтобы удостовериться, что воздух наверху пригоден для дыхания. После этого они решились на полет сами.
Why it’s wise to launch softly - Matt Linderman, 37signals
When I setup a continuous location-updater I have to think about the actions of my future self. How can I guard against him? What if there are places or times that I do not want revealed (shopping for a birthday present, my home, etc.)? I take care of this by usually only sharing my neighborhood (it’s useful for both locals and non-locals without getting too specific).
However, in the future I’d like time-based rules (share specific places after 5PM), white lists (always share bars or when I am in San Francisco) and black-lists (never share my home). Services like Clarke and Fire Eagle and Latitude will need to add these safeguards before they get wide spread adoption.
Clarke and the Continuous Location Update - Brady Forrest, O’Reilly Radar
Twitter tweet IDs will shortly tick over past the maximum signed 32 bit integer, potentially breaking applications. I learnt this lesson when the same thing happened to Flickr photo IDs: never store numeric IDs from external systems as integers, always use strings.
The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive? - Simon Willison
The only people I know who are really not obsessed with sex are heroin junkies.
Gaspar Noé. (via dailymeh • Constant Siege)