11 December 2002

Steven Johnson: Apple makes a more complicated interface on purpose "So it becomes a swiss-army-knife approach to file management, rather than a one-tool-fits-all." (It's also discussed on SBJ's blog.) Compare to Marisa Mayer on Google's interface being like a swiss-army knife. 4:54:36 PM     comments

Cell-phone ban not a good call Across the United States and around the world, politicos have been jumping on anti-cell-phone bandwagons. The predominant approach is to ban most handheld cell-phone use by drivers, despite laws -- often already on the books -- banning any form of distracted driving. 2:27:31 PM     comments

MPT: Opera7 interface compared to Mozilla; found wanting Matthew Thomas, sometime Mozillan (we think), takes an intelligent look at Opera 7's interface and finds some problems. And he immediately follows this up by being too hard on himself: Bad mpt! Bad! Bad! 11:23:46 AM     comments