via The Onion
Microsoft’s grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse? | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian
Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it’s there, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Announcing the User Experience Advocates Project < The Plenitude of Arboreal Beauty
I would often go to upstream projects with a list of paper cuts to discuss and have a very difficult time finding someone to discuss them with. Either the maintainer was too busy, or nobody was interested in small user experience issues, or “the mailing list made that [design decision],” or there was no record justifying the existing user experience so project stakeholders assumed they were deliberate decisions made by the original authors, etc.
via Announcing the User Experience Advocates Project < The Plenitude of Arboreal Beauty.
Oh dear lord somebody please help us.
Television in The World of Tomorrow
RCA offered four types of television receivers for sale to in 1939.… Their prices, ranging from U.S. $199.50 to $600, were considered high. Advertising was initially aimed at the wealthy; depicting viewers dressed in evening suits and gowns to watch TV.
Debunking the ‘compiz is so bloated’ myth
So please, don’t just call compiz bloated because people enable every single plugin then make a 10 minute screencase of wobbly spinning firey watery cubes at a framerate of 2FPS













