RT @3pointross: Just published a new version of Editors Tabs for Wordpress - improved styling, behavior and fixed JS -

"Dr. Wolfram, may I mention a word to you? That word is MySpace. If there is any such person as this average person, she has a MySpace account. Does she generate customized nutrition labels? On a regular basis, or just occasionally? In what other similar activities does she engage - monitoring the population of Burma? Graphing the lifecycle of stars? Charting Korean copper consumption since the 1960s? Perhaps you should feed MySpace into your giant electronic brain, and see what comes out.

Like most hubristic UIs, Wolfram Alpha is operating with a completely fictitious user narrative. The raison d'etre of the natural-language interface, stated baldly, is to create a usable tool for stupid people who might be confused or intimidated by a tree of menus. The market of stupid people is indeed enormous. The market of stupid people who like to use data-visualization tools is, well, not. (And since the interface is not in fact easy but actually quite difficult, it achieves the coveted status of a non-solution to a non-problem.)"

"One of the weirdest electronic toy I’ve played with so far is certainly this 'tuttuki bako' (tuttuki box) poking box by BANDAI. It consists in a basic box with a LCD screen, a cute yellow button and a hole on one side of the box. To play the games, you simply have to insert your finger in this hole, and see it appear on the LCD screen."

"Iphone-haptics is a project run by the Computing Science Department of the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Our aim with this web site is to publicly experiment with user interface design prototypes, implemented on the Apple iPhone utilising its built-in variable intensity actuator and multi-touch screen."

The new delicious is tasty tasty tasty. Trade in a few URL dots for a bundle of great stuff. Post/edit UI, tag navigation, bulk edit, general party like it's 2007 behavior and four times the description length. Wow!

"Whoever invented the 'magnifying glass' interface for setting the text cursor position ought to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize."

Testing out a mobile service that lets you run a poll, notify groups of events, etc. Two quibbles: the service is chatty (it sent exactly one more message than needed) and the poll selection "B)" turned into a ghastly smiley on my phone.

"Multi-touch technologies have a long history ... the original work undertaken by my team was done in 1984 ... The following is a very brief and incomplete summary of some of the landmark examples ... over the years."

The last thing the world needs is another color palette generator. But this one is pretty superfluously cool.

Media + multimedia + interactive media from "Children of Men" -- nice to get a closer look at some of the micro details in a very hectic haptic happening movie.

agent mitten utility belt: horizontal navigation parked under masthead using yahoo ui

Simple yet awesome tool: compare maps and a few statistics for U.S. universities.

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).

Tempted to make some pun along the lines of "you wget what you pay for"

I see this NASCAR crap at SI every day

Comprehensive intro to several means for text input munging on OS X. go go go

"The new system allows you to create a custom interface in Interface Builder and then ask TextMate to present it as was it native. This is without writing any code at all." Yet another crazy TextMate fillip -- cool.

Leonard Cohen sez: "take this waltz, it's been dying for years."

Problems with form validation if your surname is 'Fake.'

Witness the crazy purple-numbers-lite comment interface.

"muCommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager featuring a Norton Commander style interface and running on any operating system with Java support (Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, Linux, *BSD, OS/2...)."

Slides and notes from Matt Webb's presentation @ BarCamp London.

OK, this article is an academic assload of fluff wrapped around a buggy, flimsy-looking color-coded diff for MediaWiki.

"We've been busting our butts to reorganize the menus and layout of the header that appears on all the application pages." Looks pretty slick so far.

"Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events."

Front Row ships with a bunch of undocumented keyboard shortcuts, here's a listing of (known) commands.

"Megazoomer makes windows full-screen. Just press Command-Enter, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire monitor."

Very weird file browser.

Python script: control iTunes by smacking laptop.

Tap the laptop's housing to trigger desktop switching.

Run a local WebDAV server with Amazon S3 as a backend -- very exciting.

"...is a web based interface for accessing all kinds of information that's being stored on your computer running"

"Seems like step by step, one of the most usability-enhancing features of Safari is being removed. The feature I'm thinking of is that Safari does not (yet) allow web authors to freely style form controls with CSS."

"...is a revolutionary Windows-based game for the visually impaired. It creates a virtual reality using sound as its medium."

Tiddlywiki with checkbox / task list UI -- cool!

"a narrative-driven "object navigation" client, operating primarily on the semantic level" (e.g. cribbing from text adventures. Cool!

...about the Plazes (re)design.

...on monthly update cycle.

...in (view changes) mode.