News You Can Bruise for 2003 May 3

Sat May 03 2003 01:46: After much additional work, The Eater of Meaning is up. Enjoy its sudsy head, fine oak bouquet, and backbiting aftertaste.

Sat May 03 2003 11:25 Don't Start Collecting Things:

• Pictures of random old goods from the 1950s, to be auctioned.
• Covers of records of the cast-off sort I used to buy and keep around despite not having a record player.
• Bad covers of old comic books. Awful cover aside, "Chaplains At War" could be interesting; sort of a "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" thing. Probably wishful thinking. There's also the greatest comic book covers of all time, but who wants to read about the good and the beautiful? (link from Todd)

Sat May 03 2003 14:17 Usability Fun: (Oddly enough, not, I think, from Todd) A Heuristic Evaluation of the Usability of Infants, and some usability quotes. Includes a summary of what might be the fundamental problem of design: "We have our mouths full of users."