ISSN 1496-3221
November 12, 2000
When Buzzwords Become Meaningless DroningBuzzwords don’t become meaningless, as they are inherently meaningless from the start. Teched-up, recontextualized sputum has taken the place of clarity in business communication and conversation. The buzz comes from the fact that your ears are hearing new combinations of sounds, rather than from the content itself. Without the buzz, the … More
November 10, 2000
Remember my festering usability rant from earlier in the week? Well, I finally received a response to my painfully articulated email to the site in question. Thank you for your email.We appreciate your comments regarding the functionality and appearance of our web site. Our program managers will keep your feedback in mind as we update … More
November 9, 2000
Überschriften! It’s time lay waste to those sissy sans serif typefaces you’ve been using with some kick-ass fraktur. From Alte Schwabacher to Zentenar, it’s one stop shopping for all your blackletter typesetting needs. Bang your heads!
November 8, 2000
Unable to resist adding his own spin to our earlier topic regarding the personal centrifuge, Ian passed along a pointer to this curiously inventive labour saving device. Once again, America proves itself as the preeminent birthplace of innovation.
November 8, 2000
This wasn’t supposed to be a weekly feature, but sometimes serendipity is the mother of online content. Fresh from my in box, please enjoy the following spam report response in the most gloriously fractured English you could possibly imagine. Dear Sirs,We are the user service charge of an Allesnet secretariat. We received the mail from … More
November 8, 2000
Gadget shopping for that special somebody? How about a personal centrifuge to combat the effects of gravitation deprivation in space? Now, be honest and ask yourself who couldn’t possibly benefit from the ability to generate artificial gravity right in your very own garage. Of course, I suspect that getting your garage up into space in … More
November 7, 2000
I have the beginnings of an e-commerce usability rant festering in the back of my head. I blasted a barbed, yet reasonably constructive email at this site today. Since they didn’t post any email addresses on their site, I ended up having to dredge one out of a feedback form page via a quick visit … More
November 6, 2000
A planned two hour meeting today stretched itself out an additional 30 minutes. Normally this would have been an unbearably painful experience. However, during the extended confab, lunch was served, laughter was shared, logic prevailed, and do I believe everyone came away reasonably happy. The operative word of the day migrated from decisive to lurching … More
November 5, 2000
Something that made me extremely happy this past week was stumbling across David Kha’s Mac OS sound set made up entirely from samples from Warner Brothers cartoons, specifically the work of the amazing Carl Stalling. Something that made me uncharacteristically angry this weekend was reading the following blurb regarding portions of Microsoft’s Enterprise 2000 product … More
November 3, 2000
By the way, the operative word this past week was process. Hopefully, next week the operative word will be decisive, as in “pick a lane already…”