The Myth of Perfect Web Design from Digital Web Magazine - ''It's also important to understand that when designing for the Web often times there is no one right way of doing things.'' - ''Perfect is the enemy of the good.''#

ryan mcgee walks down memory lane - ''When you're in school, it's fun to play the "What will this person end up doing?" game. It's only natural. You dub people "Most Likely to Succeed", "Most Likely to Get Hitched First," "Most Likely to End Up on Springer", "Most Likely To Appear on Sewer Cam", and so forth. Very few people are pegged, "Most Likely To Start a Feminist Fetish Club in NYC", but lo, turns out someone I know has done just that.'' - i was "Most Likely to Start A Feminist Fetish Club in Boston'' actually. no lies.#

from ken layne is Reading Between the Lines - a course on figuring out what demographics magazines are targeted at by studying the ads. very interesting and funny.#

yup#

from rands is discussion on "Completionists and Incrementalists" and how ''email is never ever ever never ever the right way to resolve controversy. Too much subtly is lost when you're YELLING IN ALL CAPS. Don't waste your time solving problems in email... stand up... walk down the hall... and look the person in the eye. You'll live longer.'' - how true he is about that particular failure of email. - also, the C vs I discussion is REALLY about Worse is Better#

from asterisk* is an article called Quality Web publishing is about saying no - actually, everything is about saying no, "Things should be a simple as possible, but not simpler" - ''hey say there's a book inside everyone. There may be. However, it's better for trees, world peace and mental health that the vast majority of these books stay unpublished. Some say there's a website designer inside everyone. Give them FrontPage and Adobe and off they go. ''#

zeldman announces the slides about "Designing With Web Standards" - neat.#

moxie has funny conversations i imagine standing in an elevator with a beautiful woman and she just starts laughing about an old conversation and gives me a "What's your problem?" look. then she will leave and has rockstar adventures#

from ted leung - ''With closed source software, if things turn against you (your business changing, your understanding of the software being deficient), all you have is superstition to back you up. 'Maybe they'll fix it in the next release, and it will be worth what I paid for it.' - Maybe.'' ( Konrad's words )#

the inside scoop to selling cars in america. must read.#

doc searls on sensationalism in advertising - how every story that is cast as a fight is a win.#

john wiseman must be a liar - who can't?#

john gruber debunks the ridiculousness in andrew stone's bashing of carbon.#

lancer arthur is wonderful or, fabulous i should say. he presents ''the reasons why President Bush is correct in his drive to outlaw the marriage of anyone who is not 100% heterosexual and, I think it goes without saying, completely faithful and married only for the procreation of the species.'' - a sample: ''*Children will join gangs, buy guns, become cannibals and start practicing bestiality with the family pets.* Gay marriage means one thing: Freedom. We all mouth platitudes about "the price of freedom," and "the value of freedom," but what we really mean is "the value of having the government dictate exactly what we may and may not do, and when, and with whom. And not using birth control. And pretending there's no such things as condoms, only abstinence. And not thinking about it. And not feeling all a'tingliy down under when someone we are interested in, but not interested in having children with, looks our way." But, golly, that's an awful lot to consider, so the other phrase works in a pinch.''#

new kernel traffic - "off topic posters will be banned" aka the ostrich approach - reiser4 benchmarks - #

from accordion guy is a description of a match making service for "attached adults" - ''Hmmm...a service that's going to hook me up with lying cheats with serious issues, make me a homewrecker, get me in all kinds of hassles and probably have some angry husband and possibly kids ready to kill me with their bare hands. Where do I sign up? ''#

glenn reynolds on lie detectors and how they don't work - '' Of course, when you find yourself before Theodoric of York, Medieval Judge, you ought to be nervous, regardless of guilt or innocence. And that's the problem with lie detectors, too. As soon as someone gives you a lie detector test, you know your fate is in the hands of either idiots or charlatans, which should make anyone nervous.''#

also from glenn is caveats to blogging and revealing to the public what you'd like to be private.#

from incipient thoughts is some discussion about schedules and how assumptions between groups working together can destroy respectful communication - something that is vital for cooperation. - ''I suspect that many schedule "problems" have the nature of self-fulfilling prophecies. We believe that we will be late, and this creates a lot of psychological pressure. Under pressure, we invent half-baked "solutions" to the schedule problem. Because we are under pressure, these solutions backfire. When our schedule-saving "solutions" backfire, we don't perform as well as we might otherwise have... and we end up late.'' and ''A schedule is not reality. A schedule is a tool for learning about reality.''#

dave winer writes about acknowledgment of ideas and how it relates to respect, and about how not only should you say good things about others, but you should only say good things about yourself if it's good for others. - '' Sometimes I think that all the Internet accomplished is making it possible for poor schmucks to behave as awfully as Larry Ellison or Scott McNealy.''#

strange ravenous person bashing at utter wonder. the introductory paragraph is perfect - ''Like happens with all great phenomenas, lulls are bound to occur from time to time. And while nobody can deny the phenomenal phenomena that is Utter Wonder's Hall of Fame, it's easy to see why the barrage of brave and courageous and chock full of intestinal fortitude people could have taken a bit of a hiatus. What with all the events in the news, from the effortless rebuilding of Iraq to witnessing the cinematic masterpiece of our time, it is understandable that people would hold off from being brave and courageous and intestinally fortitudish so they can better appreciate the living history that is our present.''#

from Joi Ito is quotes on the anti-gay bandwagon - from megan: ''One interesting point is that some of the discussion here in the US right now is about polling. Lots of people get so caught up in the polling --- yet, 35 years ago when it was still illegal for inter-racial couples to marry, the polls were 70%+ against allowing it. If we stuck with polling only, we would have no civil rights legislation, we'd still have racially segregated bathrooms, women wouldn't be able to vote, etc.'' - from victor hugo: ''An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.'' - (he links interesting articles about religion and homosexuality)#

from Dave Pollard is a review of a book called, People Before Profit - it sounds neat, a mix between introduction to globalization and history plus a fiction story about how to transform the world into a "technicolour dreamland" - interesting.#

gang vocal and tidbits of the Dr. Frank documentary. i would watch it. twice!#

dann sheridan blogs on the need for more blogs about storage systems, how it would be good for the community. i think blogs are great for any community but when you start getting into one that is too big/profitable/secretive there's less people who are willing to talk about anything new... just old (yet still interesting) stuff.#

from chris frazier is the pooping at work survival guide - so funny. this is via tallent - a sample: ''TURD BURGLAR: Someone who does not realize that you are in the stall and tries to force the door open. This is one of the most shocking and vulnerable moments that can occur when taking a poop at work. If this occurs, remain in the stall until the Turd Burglar leaves. This way you will avoid all uncomfortable eye contact.''#

also from richard is reflection on great minds and personalities because of tim bray's post about a story on c|net - from tim: ''You can't understand the real story—ever—without understanding the personalities and who said what to whom and when and why. Marxism had an alternate theory of history: that it was all predetermined by socio-economic forces and that the individual was not a factor in the story. There's a word for that theory: wrong.'' - and from richard: ''Great minds don't "think alike," and they come with big and rough personalities. Put two of them together who are interested in solving the same problem and you will almost always end up with a great solution (or solutions), but you will also invariably see some fireworks in the process.''#

charles is upset about their not being any support for programming hobbyist applications for your phone. a reader of his blog writes, ''hone makers don't try and sell phones based on the available software yet, people buy phones based on the look/sex appeal, hardware functions like cameras, and brand loyalty. They're not viewed as computing devices yet. So there's no incentive for most network providers to let you have free range on the phones, because it just opens up a whole lot of support requests ("this game doesn't work", "my phone won't turn on", etc).''#

charles on working strange hours - ''Eventually, the three of us working in the web-hacking department were pointedly asked to come in earlier. We compromised, and set up a rota whereby at least one of us would be in by 9am on any particular day to be available to answer phones and technical questions, but that was our one concession to timeliness. We got our job done, we worked the requisite number of hours. So what.'' - that's my attitude, my job is do development, be an expert, and show up to meetings - not work 9 to 5. if you want someone to do good work wouldn't you want to tilt the board in their favour? - obviously this is a can of worms with big teams because communication is very important but for smaller solitary teams i see no problems#

scott wonders ''Can one be a stellar computer programmer and a superb author of fiction? I have no doubt that there are some insanely brilliant individuals who can do both exceptionally well, but I'd be willing to wager dollars to donuts that writing fiction and programming are diametric tasks.''#

from nerdslut - ''While [Albert] Einstein lived in Bern, working as a patent office clerk, he did his research work in a small study away from his home. In this study, he kept a large number of cats, of which he was very fond. However, the cats at times could be rather burdensom, scratching persistently at closed dorrs, demanding to roam freely throughout the house. He could not leave all the doors open, so he decided to cut holes in the bottom of the doors, producing cute little cat doors. In that year, he had roughly equal numbers of large and small cats. Therefore, quite logically, he cut two holes in each door: a large one for the large cats, and a small one for the small cats.'' - interesting.#

from gordon is a link to a blog about a school - its a neat idea, provide a personal look into how life is like at a particular school to provide a resource for future students. more stuff like this wanted.#