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WordCount
I rediscovered an old site I’d meant to post about long ago: WordCount. It’s another of those interesting visualisation tools, this time showing the commonality of English words. Derived from Oxford University’s British National Corpus of 100 million words, it’s an obvious practical example of the long tail. Since we get by on an estimated [...]
Web productivity tip
This did the rounds a couple of weeks back, but I’m passing it on since it’s been invaluable.
Set your homepage to about:blank.
That’s it. I don’t fire up a browser unless I have a task in mind - per day it’s saved me probably 15 mins of aimless surfing, and freed 15 mins of productive time [...]
"This is a Unix system!"
Jakob Nielsen’s clearly in the holiday spirit, since his latest Alertbox is an exposé of the 10 biggest User Interface bloopers in films, which we’ll all see countless times over the next few weeks.
I’d forgotten all about Jurassic Park, where a 12-year-old girl saves the day and stops the usual rampaging dinosaur hordes through her [...]