Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Concussion causes emotional disturbances [Science Blog] 9:50:56 PM      Google It!.

Brain's left and right sides work together better in mathematically gifted youth [Science Blog] 9:15:49 AM      Google It!.

Scribbling in the margins. The fuzzy intersection of official and unofficial data has never been a comfort zone for information technologists. In chapter 4 of Klaus Kaasgaard's Software Design and Usability, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) alumnus Austin Henderson says that "one of the most brilliant inventions of the paper bureaucracy was the idea of the margin." There was always space for unofficial data, which traveled with the official data, and everybody knew about the relationship between the two. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] This column muses on the use of DNS TXT records to implement the latest round of SMTP sender authorization schemes. Everybody feels guilty about not using some new formally-defined DNS resource record type, but everybody also knows that would be a non-starter. So instead we're scribbling in the margins of the DNS, and luckily, DNS has margins available for scribbling. ... [Jon's Radio] 9:14:17 AM      .

Jakob Nielsen: "It's apparently easier to tune out the continuous drone of a complete conversation, in which two people take turns speaking, than it is to ignore a person speaking and falling silent in turns." [Scripting News] 9:06:37 AM      Google It!.

When Does Usability Become a Liability? [Slashdot] 9:03:52 AM      Google It!.

With Tiny Brain Implants, Just Thinking May Make It So. Cyberkinetics Inc. plans to implant a tiny chip in the brains of five paralyzed people in an effort to enable them to operate a computer by thought alone. By Andrew Pollack. [New York Times: Technology] 9:01:57 AM      Google It!.

Those Eureka Moments [Slashdot] link to researvh article 8:42:38 AM      Google It!.

Implant a Chip in Your Head [Slashdot] on the road to Borg -- BL 8:37:20 AM      Google It!.