Larry Kestenbaum | Presidential primary follies
october 2007 by bkerr
"We Michiganders have sure gotten ourselves into a pickle again."
michigan
politics
2008
presidential
primary
compound
fuckup
stick-around-michigan
october 2007 by bkerr
Notional Slurry | Notes on departing the 2007 University of Michigan Entrepalooza Workshop
september 2007 by bkerr
"There are multiple breakout sessions, and the place is jammed with supposed entrepreneurs, and the whole thing is free. Chairs in the hallway are fucking empty during the sessions?! What does that say (cont.)"
umich
biz
events
design
conference
closedspace
fuckup
control-addicts
control-mobs
control-towers
september 2007 by bkerr
Venture Itch | 15 tips on attracting visitors to your site or PNB (Prioritized Numbered Bullshit)
may 2007 by bkerr
"Without denying convenience of digesting PNB (prioritized numbered bullshit -- abbreviation is mine), this no-brainer recipe of getting attention of social networking crowds is abused more and more."
list
prioritized-number-bullshit
weblogs
communication
yasn
spammy
content
fuckup
stop-the-train-please
i'd-like-to-get-off
via:vielmetti
may 2007 by bkerr
Michigan Ability Partners
february 2007 by bkerr
Mahatm sez: "Everything is an image; no alt-text."
michigan
nonprofit
nptech
accessibility
supermassive
lunar
fuckup
images
wtf-mate
via:mahatm
february 2007 by bkerr
Summer Internship @ Google, Inc.: Accessibility Experiences
february 2007 by bkerr
"This paper describes some of the authors’ experiences as interns at Google, Inc. We were both assigned to spend time on accessibility issues encountered by visually impaired users. In this paper, we discuss" our asinine clusterfuck summer of disaster.
google
accessibility
fuckup
stupid-chi-papers
february 2007 by bkerr
Le «blog personnel» de Joe Clark | Another black eye for Google
february 2007 by bkerr
"Combine a paucity of life experience with an intrinsic inability to empathize with others and the result is Google." Tearing into a total fuckup, clueless student "accessibility interns" instead of any real perspective/backing from teh Googe.
google
accessibility
fuckup
stupid-chi-papers
february 2007 by bkerr
Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler | The Agenda Restated
february 2007 by bkerr
Jim Kunstler agenda for the world of tomorrow
ecology
economics
clustering
fuckup
future
agenda
culture
cities
planning
etc
via:adamgreenfield
february 2007 by bkerr
AlterNet | How Generous Is the Bill Gates Foundation?
february 2007 by bkerr
Standard "their investments are at odds with their grants" horror show, but with bigger numbers.
foundation
investment
fuckup
february 2007 by bkerr
Flickr: Help: Yahoo! IDs, signing in and screen names
january 2007 by bkerr
Dammit, between this and the del.icio.us e-mail support stuff not a good day for Yahoo!-flavored cool toys
flickr
yahoo
fuckup
january 2007 by bkerr
Ms. Dewey
december 2006 by bkerr
A dumb marketing gimmick -- video-annotated microsoft live search. It was fun to get a little meta (search for the name of the actress) but they didn't finish what they started (search for the name of the ad agency that built the stupid thing).
search
gimmick
video
marketing
ui
fuckup
december 2006 by bkerr
Caterina.net | Illegitimate
october 2006 by bkerr
Problems with form validation if your surname is 'Fake.'
regex
ui
design
fuckup
october 2006 by bkerr
University of Michigan HFES | Bad Designs on Campus Contest
october 2006 by bkerr
"The U of M student chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society is hosting a Bad Designs On Campus competition. During the month of October, any U of M student can submit a description of something on campus that they feel is designed poorly."
campus
design
failures
fuckup
contest
october 2006 by bkerr
Amazon.com: Precalculus for Christian Schools: Books: Kathy D. Pilger,Ron Tagliapietra
may 2006 by bkerr
"An interesting mixture of Newtonian mathematics and a strict modern interpretation of Judeo-Christian values. Actually, not interesting and the two subjects fit together like oil and water."
religion
math
edu
fuckup
via:deusx
may 2006 by bkerr
Help Vampires: A Spotter's Guide
march 2006 by bkerr
"As soon as an open source project, language, or what-have-you achieves a certain notoriety--its half-life, if you will--they swarm in, seemingly draining the very life out of the community itself."
online
social
fuckup
si684
march 2006 by bkerr
The Fishbowl | The Perils of Metadata
february 2006 by bkerr
rentzsch said, "This is exactly why I won't let the Post photograph me."
web
newspapers
journalism
images
metadata
versus
privacy
funny
fuckup
february 2006 by bkerr
del.icio.us | continued hiccups
december 2005 by bkerr
This outage is the reason why I didn't post anything to del.icio.us for four (4!) days.
del.icio.us
fuckup
scary-as-all-hell
tremendous
internet
horror
december 2005 by bkerr
BBC NEWS | Americas | Evangelist says voters reject God
november 2005 by bkerr
Pat Roberston (direct quote): "I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city."
politics
pathetic
christians
disaster
fuckup
november 2005 by bkerr
New York Times | Good Smell Perplexes New Yorkers
october 2005 by bkerr
THE AIRBORNE OLFACTORY EVENT.
urban
olfaction
fuckup
october 2005 by bkerr
Daring Fireball | The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme
september 2005 by bkerr
"This guy trashes the HIG the way Johnny Depp trashes a hotel room. He even sports a custom radius on his window corners."
mac
design
itunes
ui
fuckup
ideas/bad
via:everyone
september 2005 by bkerr
grooveadam | For Andrew Shirvell and "the Kingdom"
july 2005 by bkerr
Ave Maria asshat's "spin" on New York Pizza Depot.
annarbor
christians
discrimination
fuckup
flamebait
july 2005 by bkerr
Regret The Error
june 2005 by bkerr
"...reports on corrections, retractions, clarifications and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in the media."
journalism
weblogs
politics
funny
fuckup
june 2005 by bkerr
Illustrative Risks to the Public in the Use of Computer Systems and Related Technology
april 2005 by bkerr
Huge list of topics from the Internet Risks Forum Digest.
past
fuckup
ideas/bad
security
april 2005 by bkerr
The New York Times | Does Not Compute, by Nicholas Carr
january 2005 by bkerr
"It may not be much consolation to taxpayers, but the F.B.I. has a lot of company. Software hell is a very crowded place."
productivity
planning
fuckup
january 2005 by bkerr
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