R.I.P. Radioactive Burn Button, 2001–2006
Goodbye old friend. I loved you dearly.
The replacement they hired is just no comparison:
Archive for the 'technical' Category
“World’s Most Advanced Mouse”
Logitech has announced the MX Revolution and VX Revolution mice. The “World’s Most Advanced Mouse” and “The Ultimate Notebook Mouse.”
The World’s Most Advanced Mouse does actually seem to tackle the battery recharging issue intelligently. Unfortunately both of the mice are wireless yet neither are Bluetooth. Oops.
Hey Logitech, notebooks have Bluetooth. Dongles are silly.
Of Mice and… more mice
I’ve been a fan of Logitech mice since, well, since I first started caring about the mice I used. In particular, I’ve been attached to their “MouseMan” line (whose name they seem to have dropped in favor of “MX” or whatever catchletter strikes them). You may recall that I posted a review of using the […]
Confirmation Bias Rephrased
From Cognitive Science I have held onto the notion that one should always be looking for a way to disprove your theories or beliefs. It is from the attempts to disprove (and the reactions to those attempts) that one can form a strong argument. It’s nice that I now have a concise phrase for a […]
“Positive Whining”
As a designer who interacts with websites, airport and subway signage, nasty little cell phone interfaces, and other variously successful communication attempts by designers and engineers (in short, as a user), I not infrequently write about my user experience—especially when my experience is not what the designers and engineers intended.
I do this not as complaint, […]
Radioactive Scorpionman
Looks like we’re significantly closer to having a Scorpionman than a Spiderman:
Making Radioactive Scorpion Venom Therapy Safe
At this week’s meeting of the Health Physics Society in Providence, researchers will describe how they have helped establish the safety of a surprising new treatment for an aggressive, essentially incurable malignant cancer called high-grade brain glioma, diagnosed in […]
Idea: IM Link History
I regularly receive quite a few links via instant message in any given day. I like this, as it’s a part of the social and connectionist processes which make the Internet function, and it’s part of how things can progress in “Internet time”.
Unfortunately sometimes I’m in a state of busyness in which I’m free to […]