From: Gleanings
To: time zoned out
Subject: Gleanings: wired and tired
OPENING THANG
I tired to kill jetlag by forcing myself to keep sleeping when I woke up wide awake at 3 a.m. Now I feel all woogy. Anyone have a cure for wooginess? I’m trying lots and lots of coffee…
IA MATTERS
Building a Web Vocabulary
There’s no point in accumulating data if you don’t know how to organize it. A Web vocabulary can help you put it all together.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/750/iq/gen/new/new/gen_new_new_0005/gen_new_new_0005_1.shtml
DESIGN MATTERS
Creative Tension
Some Web designers push the medium. Others scorn the flashy stuff. We asked five leading designers where they stand in this budding religious war.
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030101/creative_content.html?printer=no
It’s time to visit typospace again. go on you, git.
http://www.typospace.com/
USABILITY MATTERS
Internet World: Testing Goes Against Japanese Culture. (tomalak.org)
Jakob Nielsen. The designers told us that Japanese clients don’t want to hear
what’s not working well with their designs, especially in front of all of
their colleagues. Problems in designs are dismissed as failures, and the way
to regain face is to invent an entirely new direction.
http://www.internetworld.com/news/archive/03062001d.jsp
APROPOS OF NOTHING
philippe sends this start-up from a 16 yr old who’s been coding since he was 10
http://emroth.home.mindspring.com/ribbitfrog/
in these times of trouble, jjg provided a little humor..
http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/guests/jjg/tired_wired.html
earth and moon viewer
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/
High court allows KKK to adopt a highway
http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/03/05/scotus.kkk.02/index.html