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Notional Slurry | Notes on departing the 2007 University of Michigan Entrepalooza Workshop
"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)
"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
Summer Internship @ Google, Inc.: Accessibility Experiences
"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
"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
AlterNet | How Generous Is the Bill Gates Foundation?
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
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
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
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
"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
Wikipedia | The Protomen
"This page has been deleted, and should not be re-created without a good reason."
protomen  music  wikipedia  fuckup 
june 2006 by bkerr
themeat.org | The State of the iSchool
"A response from an unarmed alum." Berkeley alumnus rants, but (as others have noted) is eerily applicable to the U-M school of information. Someday I'll have to write my own UMSI rant.
umich  si  berkeley  fuckup 
june 2006 by bkerr
Amazon.com: Precalculus for Christian Schools: Books: Kathy D. Pilger,Ron Tagliapietra
"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
"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
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
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
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
Daring Fireball | The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme
"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
defective yeti | Roving Reporter
Concise, well-written blogland summary of the entire affair.
politics  fuckup  funny 
july 2005 by bkerr
Regret The Error
"...reports on corrections, retractions, clarifications and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in the media."
journalism  weblogs  politics  funny  fuckup 
june 2005 by bkerr
The New York Times | Does Not Compute, by Nicholas Carr
"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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