I think this covers it

How to annoy a gifted child

Thanx to Jae Leslie on Facebook.

We have all been here before

"The Return of LiveJournal" is the latest menace. LJ is turning from a place for Us to hang out to a great public mess with a huge majority doing things I don't care about. Sounds like Worldcon. As long as I can hang out with my friends, I'm staying here, and I'm also at Corflu DreamWidth, under the same name.

Autoistic

Design, like oversight and sanction, is an autoantonym: It means two opposite things. There's design as "clear thinking made visible" [Edward Tufte] and there's creating elegantly simple objects that win awards from other designers while making as few concessions as possible to the suckers who have to use the device. Here's how design in the second sense can make cars more lethal.

Thanx to andrewducker

ETA: As the article makes clear, good design is also clear thinking made tangible.

Using a template whose time has come

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