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Entries for Monday, December 18, 2006

December 18, 2006

The New Yorker : The Gift Right Out

“Waldfogel’s main finding is that, in general, people spend a lot more on presents than they’re worth to those who receive them.”

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Blowing Chunks: Marketing Before Security

Because logging you out of your banking website is clearly less important than trying to sell you another credit card.

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Reason Magazine - Ticking Bombast

Excellent deconstruction of the ridiculousness of the “ticking timebomb” argument for allowing torture.

Usability in the Movies -- Top 10 Bloopers (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Uncle Jakob has officially run out of things to write about.


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This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.