Entries for Monday, December 18, 2006
➠ December 18, 2006
The New Yorker : The Gift Right Out
“Waldfogel’s main finding is that, in general, people spend a lot more on presents than they’re worth to those who receive them.”
Blowing Chunks: Marketing Before Security
Because logging you out of your banking website is clearly less important than trying to sell you another credit card.
Reason Magazine - Ticking Bombast
Excellent deconstruction of the ridiculousness of the “ticking timebomb” argument for allowing torture.
Usability in the Movies -- Top 10 Bloopers (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Uncle Jakob has officially run out of things to write about.
Got into work to find a package of seven t-shirts from Threadless waiting for me. This cheered me up no end. I think today’s going to be OK.
Posted to Twitter at 11:04 a.m.
Feeling really down — like the Citalopram isn’t working. First time I’ve felt this depressed in years. Just want to curl up in a ball and stay …
Posted to Twitter at 8:36 a.m.