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Posted at 9:49am on 29 Jan 2008

It's Fast, and it's Free

Brent Simmons describes the creative process behind the UI for NetNewsWire's syncing interface:

http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=3468

Interesting reading for UI junkies.

Posted at 10:20am on 28 Jan 2008

NASA MMO

NASA is making an MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online videogame)

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/nasa-seeks-inpu.html
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/would-you-play.html

First thoughts: Cool and... er... why?

Posted at 2:39pm on 14 Jan 2008

The 2007 Darwin Awards

http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007.html

Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.

Posted at 11:42am on 11 Jan 2008

Story of the iPhone

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone

Engineers, frazzled from all-night coding sessions, quit, only to rejoin days later after catching up on their sleep.

A product manager slammed the door to her office so hard that the handle bent and locked her in; it took colleagues more than an hour and some well-placed whacks with an aluminum bat to free her.