28.02.2006
simplicity
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37signals says:
We’re a privately-held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based software products possible with the least number of features necessary. Our products do less than the competition — intentionally.
We believe software is too complex. Too many features, too many buttons, too much to learn. We build web-based products that do less, work smarter, [...]
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13.02.2006
silliness
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Flickr is a great place for a diversion, and a reminder that stick figures all over the world put up with a multitude of bizarre threats and dangers. Where would we be without their brave warnings?
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06.02.2006
cognitive science
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When it comes to self-deception, we humans are experts. We are quite able of convincing ourselves, for example, that we know something when in fact we really don’t. One of my favorite cogsci blogs, Mixing Memory, describes this phenomenon — called the illusion of explanatory depth — in some detail:
The idea behind the illusion of [...]
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