Tragedy of the Bunnies: This is a cool little quick game that demonstrates through comparison of two sub-games… the tragedy of the commons.

Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox): The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be. Since my first attempt in 1996, I have compiled many top-10 lists of the biggest mistakes in Web design. […]

Who knew you could cheat at chess? – Yahoo! News: NEW DELHI, Dec 27 (Reuters Life!) – An Indian chess player has been banned for 10 years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone’s wireless device to win games, chess officials said on Wednesday —– If they cheat at chess…… the can […]

The five-things-you-didn’t-know-about-me meme: Michael tagged me with this. 1. I was a Military Policeman in the Washington D.C. National Guard, primarily because when I transferred there from Pennsylvania, I was too junior to be in the Intelligence battalion of the reserves. I joined the reserves to help pay for college when i was 17. I […]

Barney Cam 2006 (QT): The barney cam, the only thing that this president actually gets right

The Rejection of D-Space: Selecting Theses Database Software at the University of Calgary Archives: This article by Lisa Atkinson of the University of Calgary Archives describes their decision to abandon DSpace for their ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) platform. Richard Jones of Imperial College London has prepared a rebuttal to Lisa’s criticisms. Update (2006-12-19): The […]

It’s a Cool Yule (Log): For many years, growing up in New York, the Yule Log on WPIX-TV (now a CW station) was a Christmas tradition. We didn’t have a fireplace and this was the next best thing. Begun in 1966 at the New York television station by Fred Thrower, general manager of the station, […]

Mass Digitization for art libraries and special collections: The Alfred P. Sloan foundation has granted $1 million to the Internet Archive for digitization in 5 US institutions to boost the materials available in the Open Content Alliance (OCA). — This is great news