…you come across a real physical button on a device in the real world, you can’t figure out what it’s supposed to do, and you find yourself hovering your finger over it waiting for a tooltip to appear.
Archive for November, 2006
Word Plus One. A story every day for a year, each one one word longer than the last. (1 comment)
Apparently, someone has decided that using my name is a good way to Be Random (search for “random names”). I wonder how that got in there. (0 comments)
How to convert an analog clock to a binary clock. The binary dial pattern is the coolest bit (about 2/3 down the page). (0 comments)
This Onion article from 17 January 2001 is disturbingly prescient. (0 comments)
Somebody asks What are some options for non-alcoholic drinks at a fine restaurant?, and half the people suggest Shirley Temples and other mocktails so that it can look like they’re having a “real” drink. Who drinks a cocktail with dinner? More proof, if proof be need be, that Americans have no class. (0 comments)