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There some innovative user interface ideas for reading on electronic devices at the lexiaProject Public GUI Initiative by Toby Braun.

Hi Owen! ;-)

sub rosa \sub-ROH-zuh\ (adverb) : in confidence : secretly Example sentence: Several military leaders were meeting sub rosa, plotting to overthrow the king. Makes me think of last night’s West Wing episode (a great show, btw). I’m not usually a sap, but their appeal to patriotism and service gets me all choked up.

Woohoo, nice deliverables! (apologies to CarbonIQ, I pulled that page out of their frameset).

Once in a while I wonder back to WikiWikiWeb because the environment is so fascinating; so close to a true, unfettered combination of hypertext and community. But just now I became convinced WikiWikiWeb doesn’t have any actual content. It’s just an elaborately constructed collection of meta-content, always describing, teasing, instructing, guiding, but never yielding any…

Here’s a great summary of user interface book reviews. It makes so much sense that, with a list of books in one industry, all of which will have some interest to the reader, to put not only title, subject summary, and link in this list but to sum up the review. ‘Cause basically I’m in…

Gary Perlman‘s list of important user interface books.

I just discovered a new interaction element in SoundJam for the Mac. I’m calling it the “column control”: Clicking the plus sign gives you one more column of information (like album, artist, time, date, size, etc.) and clicking the minus sign gives you one less. This is different than making the window bigger to expose…

What a great idea, Daisy Rock Girl Guitars.

Peter Morville’s take on the dot.com crash: Picture a long, dark tunnel with a light at the far end. Imagine a number of sheep in the tunnel. They are shuffling slowly forward through the tunnel. Suddenly, they begin moving from side to side, flying through the air and bouncing off the walls at almost the…

Challis Hodge, CEO of H A N N A H O D G E, has some wonderful thoughts on technology, such as this: My vision, or should I say hope, is that by 2003 we’ve created a people-centered world where the development and use of technology is based on human needs. We as designers and…

Seen on blackbeltjones: Professional ‘voice of reason’ Jeff Veen on the broadband myth “You know what’s really striking, though? I heard a VP at Yahoo talking recently about the speed of their site. He said that even corporate users with massive connections within the enterprise complain about slow sites. They’ve got all the bandwidth they…

Am I GEEK or NOT dot com. I love how the Internet is helping us explore our deepest insecurities.

As someone born in a territory formerly ruled by France, Bill Clinton can run for President of that country.

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