Category: General

Cafe Testing sounds like an interesting way to get some quick user feedback on a web site. I might need to go stake out a cafe next weekend.

The Occupation offers a fascinating view of life in Iraq. It’s a little biased, particularly the person asking the questions, but the responses are really interesting and feel genuine to me.

According to an outtake from some gross facts book, the typical person produces enough saliva over the course of their life to fill a swimming pool. Oh, and girls fart 3 times more often then guys.

Is another folk singer, like I need … No, what the world really needs is a WTF Ligature. Be warned, when I viewed the page an off-site graphic link had been replaced with an image of Tub Girl *shudder*

25 Ways to Distinguish Yourself is a PDF manifesto. I almost didn’t download it because what’s the point of PDF when it could just as easily be a web page. It’s pretty (though I don’t think it needs to be a PDF to be pretty), but more importantly, the content is pretty good. It is…

The 29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet

Richard Koch thinks we should apply the 80/20 principle to our personal lives. It makes sense, but to be honest, I only read about 20% of the article.

A lot of these Bush jokes are kind of dumb, but a few of them made me laugh out loud, and then they made me cry.

Is it possible I’ve been writing with my fingers instead of my hand/arm all this time? Probably. These handwriting tips are interesting, and my handwriting could certainly stand to be improved. If I practice, I might even be able to get up to semi-legible. I just don’t know that I care enough to practice. I’ll…

When Vector Meets Photo — It all looks so easy when you follow along on the web page. I bet in reality, it’s actually a bit more challenging, but still kind of cool.