December 3

The Animals House of the Rising Sun Old School Computer Remix

(Source: youtube.com)

September 7
Kosovaren retten Schweizer Nati!

Kosovaren retten Schweizer Nati!

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August 30
seldo: This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”, “optimized” UI for Windows Explorer. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it. The post is a sort of masterpiece of crazy rationalization, but I think my favourite part may be this screenshot: Here, they proudly overlay the UI with data from their research into how often various commands are used. They use this to show that “the commands that make up 84% of what users do in Explorer are now in one tab”. But the more important thing is that the remaining 50% of the bar is taken up by buttons that nobody will ever use, ever, even according to Microsoft’s own research. And yet somehow they remain smack bang in the middle of the interface. The insanity is further enriched by this graph: Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the menu bar, and only 10% of users use the command bar. Nearly everybody is using the context menu or hotkeys. So the solution, obviously, is to make both the menu bar and the command bar bigger and more prominent. Right? Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody.

seldo:

This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”, “optimized” UI for Windows Explorer. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it.

The post is a sort of masterpiece of crazy rationalization, but I think my favourite part may be this screenshot:

Here, they proudly overlay the UI with data from their research into how often various commands are used. They use this to show that “the commands that make up 84% of what users do in Explorer are now in one tab”. But the more important thing is that the remaining 50% of the bar is taken up by buttons that nobody will ever use, ever, even according to Microsoft’s own research. And yet somehow they remain smack bang in the middle of the interface. The insanity is further enriched by this graph:

Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the menu bar, and only 10% of users use the command bar. Nearly everybody is using the context menu or hotkeys. So the solution, obviously, is to make both the menu bar and the command bar bigger and more prominent. Right?

Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody.

August 29
Wie wünschst du dir die Schweiz?
August 24
Ruhe in Frieden, Loriot

Wer weiss, vielleicht sogar auf einem Modell Unisono Allegro mit doppeltem Federkern und Palmfaserauflage und einem Bezugsmaterial aus gedrillter Halbzwirnware oder gedrilltem Volant.
August 18
“ This is what David Cameron got wrong: you can’t cut police budgets at the same time as you cut everything else. Because when you rob people of what little they have, in order to protect the interests of those who have more than anyone deserves, you should expect resistance—whether organized protests or spontaneous looting. Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery | Naomi Klein, The Nation
July 19
Panamp

Our friends in the next room made an awesome music player for the iPhone. Go and get it while it’s hot!
July 9
Beautiful architecture by L3P - Minergie rated family house, Zürich 2011 (via subtilitas)

Beautiful architecture by L3P - Minergie rated family house, Zürich 2011 (via subtilitas)

June 24

He Man singing «What’s going on» (via wilwheaton)

(Source: youtube.com)

June 20
Modkit

Awesome, this Arduino in the browser visual programming thing works wonderfully! (via @brendandawes)