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The 10 Worst Microsoft Product Names of All Time – PCWorld
From Microsoft Bob to Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft has shown a real talent for unfortunate product names. Here are our picks for the worst–along with alternatives that might have worked better…
“It’s a whole lot simpler to block bad mail than it is to try and convince senders to stop sending bad mail.”
— Just Block It, Word to the Wise
Yeah, I missed it too: Tunnel Vision and Selective Attention (Jakob Nielsen)
The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video’s Robotic Overlords https://www.wired.com/2012/09/streaming-videos-robotic-overlords-algorithmic-copyright-cops/
A List Apart: Learning to Love the Boring Bits of CSS https://alistapart.com/article/love-the-boring-bits-of-css/
I love this explanation of “opt-in” co-reg marketing “permission” (if you can call it that):
A husband gets permission from his wife to go to the pub on certain nights of the week with his mates, then sometime later later gets divorced, re-married, and then uses the original permission as an excuse when his new partner moans about his social habits.
If you need a “disavow links” tool, maybe you’re reading too much into the existence of links.
Stunning portrait of Earth from a new European weather sat
The cool space pics just keep coming. You really need to click on this one to see the high-res version. It's, as Phil says, stunning.
Interesting perspective at HBR: I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why.
Must read: How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo: Steve Ballmer and Corporate America’s Most Spectacular Decline via @Slashdot
As one of the commenters points out, would anyone notice?
Did Apple Just Quietly End Development Of Safari For Windows? | TechCrunch
Wayne remarks on Google+: Out of curiosity I clicked on Download and got shunted to a majority Mountain Lion features What’s New page. No actual download activated. hmmm
A thought-provoking article about an allergist who found herself on the other side of the office when own her children developed severe food allergies.
Allergist Mom: What My Food Allergic Kids Taught Me | Allergic Living
Hotmail tries to classify all those newsletters, status updates and more that fall somewhere between person-to-person email and outright spam.
An interesting perspective on what conferences and festivals have in common with each other, and how they’re different from everyday life.
Committed: The Altered State of Comic-Con – Comics Should Be Good
Revisiting the guidelines for serif vs. sans-serif screen text in the HD era: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/serif-vs-sans-serif-fonts-hd-screens/
I finished reading “Blackout” earlier this month. Highly recommended. The three novels aren’t zombie stories per se so much as they’re thrillers set in a world where zombies are a fact of life. Look under the name Mira Grant for “Feed,” “Deadline” and “Blackout.”
Always consider what you’re training your email recipients to do with the mail you send them. Whether it’s “ignore most of what we send you” or “don’t worry if you see something from us that’s at a random domain, we send using different domains all the time.”
Training Recipients – Word to the Wise
Want to see a WWF style smackdown? Put a marketer and a delivery expert in a room and ask them to discuss frequency and whether or not more mail is better. The marketer will point to the bottom line…
Ouch! It’s worth remembering that not everyone has a high-speed connection, and that all those images and scripts add up. This isn’t just for the minority stuck on dial-up, but with the rise of mobile computing, a lot of people are on spotty connections that might be high-speed one moment, then dog-slow the next.
Want pain? Try loading today’s websites over dial-up
Even today, in 2012, some people don’t have broadband Internet connections, relying instead on phone lines and those good old dial-up modems. By today’s standards, those connections are extremely slow…
Um…there is no “Twilight Zone universe.”
WB sets scribe to rewrite ‘Twilight Zone’
Unlike the 1983 feature that had four separate storylines, this pic will have one story that features elements from the “Twilight Zone” universe made popular by Rod Serling’s classic TV series.
Curbed LA: Explainer: What’s Up With the Orchestra Mural on the 110?
Interesting. I didn't realize the mural had been around that long.
