davextreme

30 November 2006

U.S. Currency Discriminates Against Blind, Judge Rules

“Of the more than 180 countries that issue paper currency, only the United States prints bills that are identical in size and color in all their denominations.”

DC Animated Universe Wiki

For my money, the DC Animated stories are the proper versions of most of the characters.

kwc blog: Matching Donations Project

29 November 2006

Carbon content of fossil fuels and dinosaurs

How many tyrannosaurs in a gallon of gasoline?

28 November 2006

The Design of the Mac OS X Shutdown Feature

Piece on how the same feature was done in Mac OS X. I agree that there needn’t be any options at all. Either you don’t use your computer for a few minutes and it sleeps, or you hit the power button.

The Windows Shutdown crapfest

Response to “Choices = Headaches” by a member of the Vista team who worked on that menu.

Choices = Headaches

Excellent piece on how offering too many choices (here, 17 different ways to turn off your computer on Windows Vista) is worse than giving people too few choices.

27 November 2006

A broken TV tastes like eating crow

“Blogs and newspapers both love to do this: find a silly outlier story to discredit/attack/mock a new trend.”

PvP: The Series

In 2007, PvP will begin releasing animated episodes. Very cool.

26 November 2006

Zelda Retrospective

Six part series on every Zelda game.