Category Archives: One-link-ers

These are posts that consist of a link out to an article, with perhaps a line or two of commentary, but not much else.

High and Low in Public Sector Design

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I like seeing comics being put to good use. (I’m biased. Who’d’ve guessed?) I’m also more than a little interested in effective design, whether it’s web UI or a better way to structure my garden. So anything that combines the two tends to catch my attention.

Anyway, here’s a great article on cartoon characters being used for New York recycling, and why it’s not only a cute program, but also good design.

Where Vista Fails

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When someone like me writes a review of Windows Vista, there’s no point in reading it. I don’t like Windows, even though I work with it every day, so I’m not likely to say anything nice about it.

So if someone like Paul Thurrott, who admits to knowing folks at Microsoft and liking them, trashes Vista this badly, all you can say is “ouch”.

shewee

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I don’t know what’s scarier about a plastic device that allows women to pee standing up, the fact that it exists at all, the fact that I’ve been in situations where it doesn’t sound like a bad idea, or the fact that they actually use this phrase in the marketing:

Shewee doesn’t just offer equality with men, but is a real and revolutionary device which will change women’s lives.

So wait, the key to gender equality all this time was the ability to use a urinal? Damn, and I thought it was people treating each other with respect and intelligence!