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Something to be Thankful for

Submitted by Leo Klein on Mon, 12/28/09 (10:42am)

With all the troubles in the world, at least we don't have these people running around anymore:

Chicago Tribune (12/6/1909): The call to arms for the Gettysburg of the war against the saloon was sounded in a hundred churches of Chicago yesterday by the militant leaders of the National Anti-Saloon league.

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Scholarship on Steroids

Submitted by Leo Klein on Sun, 7/19/09 (9:17pm)

Is the pace of scholarship being significantly sped up thanks to the 'Net? We've known for years that the process of scholarship has changed thanks to the existence of things like full-text databases but what I'm been reading in a couple of places seems to suggest a decline of traditional publishing models in favor of a far more dynamic system of self-generated content.

First we have Michael Nielsen pointing to the effect blogs are having on scientific scholarship:

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Javascript is the "Lingua Franca of the Web"

Submitted by Leo Klein on Tue, 5/22/07 (11:14am)

Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror composes a love song to the popular scripting language:

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End-User Manifesto

Submitted by Leo Klein on Tue, 1/30/07 (5:53pm)

gapingvoid posts an interesting list called the "End-User Manifesto". It's billed as "things that need to be in the mind of anyone building software, particularly for the Web." Here are the first four items:

1. Don't waste my time.

2. Help me do the right thing.

3. Respect my decisions.

4. Design well, and guide me to make the right decisions by that design.

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IA-Usability

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