the possibly accurate nowTue, 12 Jul 2005
[05:05] Die Mouse Button Die!
Date: 7/12/05 at 1:05PM
I've been very interested in UI design since I first started building software and I've always been interested in ways to make things more intuituve and easier to use - designing the technology around the human rather than twisting humans around knobbly UIs. I stumbled across the dontclick.it site today which looks really really interesting - basically it's a site navigable without pressing the mouse button at all. I don't know about the RSI implications of this, I use a trackball (Logitechs Trackman) and consequently don't have to wave my arms around like a windmill, maybe my thumb will drop off instead.
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[01:34] Online News and Information Sites
Date: 7/12/05 at 9:34AM
I've been trying to stay on top of breaking news for the past few days (why are those helicopters hovering over my house) and I've found a few new sites to add to my old list:
- The Strange World Of Tapu - This site grew out of the original Strange World Of Tapu, I think. It was one of my favourites for a long, long time and it remains a very useful source of information on news and other things - explore the tabs! The site moves around a LOT so just remember the title and search for it.
- ABYZ News Portal - Normal old news portal but links to a lot of traditional newspapers.
- Rense.com - The real news. This site is updated quite often during the day and contains a lot of information that doesn't make it into the mainstream news. It could quite possibly be classsed as a conspiracy theory site but I happen to believe that a lot of the theorists are right - a lot of the predictions and observations made in stories written and linked to from here come true all too often. A lot of interesting info on the recent London Bombings in here too....
- Wikinews - A new discovery for me and an interesting idea - worth keeping an eye on, sort of like a moderated meta-blog :)
- Technorati - News from the blog world, a lot of "now" news is out there and you can find it here
- IceRocket has a Blog Search and a News Search
- Google - Allegedly an unbiased news search and works for major topics, remember you have to watch google
- BBC News 24 Streaming Video - if anything big happens in London (which I'm a little biased towards at the moment) it'll be here.
If anyone has any interesting or useful links I'd be interested in them.
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