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Permission to pee?

Bush ‘caught short’ at UN summit
GWB simply can’t help it, can he?

23.09.2005 8:30 pm : Bias : No Comments

Welcome to this world

Research in Psychology is bullshit as it is, without researchers adding their crock opinion. Some psychiatrist from New York has decided that depression among teenagers is the result, not the cause, of their experimenting with sex and drugs/alcohol. (I don’t have a link, I read this in the paper.) Apparently, teetotalers run the greatest risk [...]

22.09.2005 4:23 pm : Bias : No Comments

Luister niet naar gebruikers: muiterij in eigen rangen

Er is een brede consensus onder ontwerpers en usability-experten dat luisteren naar gebruikers, en rekening houden met hun opmerkingen, essentieel is in het begrijpen en automatiseren van hun dagdagelijkse taken. Of tenminste, zo lijkt het. Recentelijk werden een paar kritische uitspraken genoteerd uit monde van prominente user-advocates. Eerst waren er de uitlatingen van guru Donald [...]

22.09.2005 8:32 am : Usability : 1 Comment

IE Developer Toolbar

Het IE team heeft zopas een Beta-versie van hun nieuwe Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar ter beschikking gesteld. Leukste nieuwe feature: de ingebouwde pixel-meetlat. Voor de rest is dit een kopie van de reeds bekende Web Developer toolbar voor Mozilla. Maar niettemin: zeer bruikbaar!

21.09.2005 11:56 pm : Tools : No Comments

Fear the Fear

Out of the Simplicity of Abstraction come most unimportant dicta, here’s one I notice every time I read, well anything: fear is the most important motivator in any decision. It may well be the only motivator. The decision to sell stock. The decision to carry on the latest hype…

21.09.2005 9:48 am : Bias : No Comments

UserSense 2.0

Na een pauze van 3 jaar is usersense.com terug. We werken momenteel aan een vernieuwde site. Binnenkort hopen we ook nieuwe artikels te publiceren. Mocht dit problemen veroorzaken bij het lezen van specifieke pagina’s, of heb je een opmerking over de nieuwe site, laat het ons weten.
Stay tuned!

19.09.2005 9:27 am : UserSense : No Comments

Pass the Dutchie

I’ve always said that the Dutch are the Americans of Europe: loud, shallow, arrogant and stupid. In a particularly stupid move, they’ve decided to open an electronic file on every child, starting at birth. I knew they were heavy on the bong, but what are they slipping now? E.g., check out this scary quote:
“Child protection [...]

16.09.2005 8:46 am : Bias : No Comments

Driving over Miss Daisy

Some German guy invented a way to turn dead cats into biodiesel. Seriously. This is excellent news: if dead cats make good diesel, so will dead people! Come on, granny, it’s euthanasia day! I suppose the fuel crisis is over. Once the going gets tough, there are no limits to human inventiveness.
Update: the inventor officially [...]

15.09.2005 8:48 am : Random : No Comments

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