I heart Google. I occasionally worry that they may well be the “greatest threat to privacy ever known” (Mother Jones), but mostly, they keep seducing me.
Look at what I just found…a Google map (already one of my favorite things), now overlaid with two of my favorite map hacks — the DCist Metro Map and a [...]

Another Beth blogs:
Web Analytics packages are sold as if it’s an automatic coffee maker. In fact, it is more like buying a coffee plantation. You can still get your cup of coffee (eventually), but your [sic] going to have to stick your hands in a lot more manure than you ever knew.
How funny! [...]

I find the online Zagat a great resource. And I was pleased to see a new (to me) feature the other day when I was trying to find a place for a work-related thank-you lunch.
I don’t exactly know the technology behind it (tho it looks very AJAX-like), but the functionality is sweet…by dragging sliders (see [...]

If your password has to be at least 8 characters long, include a number, an uppercase letter, and a special character, what would you do once you created it?
You’d write it down.
Duh.

Okay, let me confess, I was the woman the Washington Post quoted many moons ago:
One woman jokingly dubbed Nielsen the “Jerry Falwell of Web design” because he holds fundamentalist design views and rigidly rejects stylistic flourishes. Yet even she came to hear him talk.
Well, to be fair, I actually came to hear Bruce Tognazzini. And [...]

The photo on the right was taken with my little tiny PowerShot, so you can tell that I gave up on the idea of doing any real photography while I was at the Aging by Design conference (I decided not to schlep both a camera and a laptop…the laptop won this time, hence this post [...]

Christina Wodtke (of Elegant Hack) has a very interesting article on Boxes and Arrows about the current state of their (incredibly long) redesign.
The essence of the article is the importance of collaborative iteration. Good stuff.
But what I particularly liked was this little tidbit:
We thought if we wrote nice, semantic HTML all it would take to [...]

I was in the bookstore the other day, and happened across a book called Stumbling on Happiness, by Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert. The author notes that this is not a self-help how to be happy book. Rather, it’s a very interesting look at why the things we think will make us happy often don’t. Or [...]