positionrelative.com » links http://www.positionrelative.com taglines are for the weak Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:24:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Interestingness 3 http://www.positionrelative.com/2009/01/27/interestingness-3/ http://www.positionrelative.com/2009/01/27/interestingness-3/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:04:12 +0000 scottbp http://www.positionrelative.com/?p=72
  • While not all that useful for the common person flipping typical is cute, and for a designer… well maybe useful too!
  • Oh my god! How I laughed! such a cute lil’ video, check out missed conception
  • Sometimes I do wonder if I made the right choice moving back to the UK. I think the police trying to make it so that a “condition of carriage” to submit to a search when you buy a tube ticket is repulsive. I value freedom, and this is anything but!
  • So there is this show for kids called lazytown, and there is a rap and crunk singer called lil’ Jon, They should never have had any interaction. but someone made a mashup. If that version is gone, do a search it keeps getting pulled off youtube.
  • Web based series are numerous at the moment, most are only barely worth watching, here is the Remnants, a pilot for a web series that I really wish would be made, it has Ze Frank and Justine Bateman for Dogs sake!
  • Last but by no means least, a nostalgic youtube video of a good NZ song, plus a surprise for some!
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  • Video mashup of Madonna vs Depeche mode… just can’t get enough music. A great mashup of tunes and also a great video.
  • The faces of the mechanical turk is a post from waxy.org which shows a few people who work on Amazon’s MT platform and why they do it. Check it for the lulz!
  • The future of politics… a link to a discussion about one of the two people President
    elect Obama has appointed to his FCC transition team… that the discussion is based upon the appointees WoW character just adds juice to this the future of politcs.
  • Pictures of 24 abandoned and deserted city scapes are kind of beautiful and sad at the same time.
  • Introducing iFun for the iPhone a cute use for the iPhone, which while fairly trivial in itself is very interesting for the potentials it shows.
  • I have always thought American voting processes were a bit weird (well when I say always I mean since the Florida debacle back in 2000) but this look at some ballots from the Minnesota recount is very interesting
    • ]]>     http://www.positionrelative.com/2008/11/22/interestingness-1/feed/ 0     links for 130607 http://www.positionrelative.com/2007/06/13/links-for-130607/ http://www.positionrelative.com/2007/06/13/links-for-130607/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:47:18 +0000 scottbp http://www.positionrelative.com/2007/06/13/links-for-130607/ WCAG Samurai errata is an attempt to “fix” the problems with WCAG 1.0

    Simon Willison’s talk on “Doing local right” from the @media europe 2007 conference.

    A video showing how screenreader’s are used in practice from the YUI team

    Tasks on a plane. The remember the milk web app goes offline

    How ads really work, explores the idea of how a site’s relationship with a user should effect how ads are served to the user.

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  • Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn’t about piracy
  • weebly!
    A cute and new drag ‘n’ drop web builder type website
  • three links from creating passionate users
    1. Don’t make the Demo look Done
    2. iPhone and the Dog Ears User Experience Model
    3. What comes after usability?
  • In fact just get the feed
  • FedEx refuses shipment of made-up stuff
    "How much effort is involved in *not* being part of the common-sense-negating, spirit-crushing, Bush-era fear-slash-stupidity machine?"
  • Amazon.com customer reviews for George Orwell’s 1984
    some people really didn’t like it!
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    8 Important Lessons Learned from ’80s Cartoons
    CARTOON: He-Man, LESSON: It’s OK to be gay. Is there any more to say… Well yes see the link
    Ebay member profile for andy46477
    Way back in the early years of ebay Andy46477 defined crazy feedback
    The Internet is a Denial of Service Attack on Your Brain.
    What was I talking about… oh something shiny
    Prokudin-Gorskii images
    Awesome photographs taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii on glass plates depicting the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917.
    I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google
    Cute near future short story from the new scientist
    Goth day at Disneyland photos
    OMG! a special day where all the goths and death metalers go to disneyland. I SO want to go!!
    Is This A Real Invoice?!
    Universal Sends Retroactive Bill To Fans It Encouraged To Do Its Viral Marketing so this was the response
    Zombie Clown Haikus
    Split them wide open
    Entrails look like sausages
    Go get the ShopVac
    The Right was right
    Democrats plans now that they have control of both senate and congress
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    Yet another google maps mashup, this one mixes overheard in new york with the maps of google. great idea!

    SIFr 3 alpha
    The latest version of the SIFr (image replacement using flash) from Mike Davidson

    My cheating husband and The Psycho Moment: Engagement
    Craigslist, useful for classifieds… and funny too!

    Interaction design encyclopedia
    The beginning of something which might become very useful indeed.

    Principles of the American Cargo Cult
    A short essay about the way some americans seem to view the world

    tags and taxonomy
    Blending the ideas of tags with more traditional taxonomy.

    hack-ability by design
    Can you design something to allow it be used in ways you haven’t imagined?

    Is DRM just a consumer rights issue
    A good little essay exploring why DRM is so about more than just a small annpyance when you get a new ipod

    live action videogaming?
    A couple of guys use a blackboard and their imagination to create some cool pics

    more on taxonomies
    High context vs Low context

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