Mark Hurst of Creative Good is one of my favorites, but he does tend to go overboard on the whole “Customer Experience” thing. So this Being Mark Hurst page strikes me as funny.

Using DVD Profiler, I’ve now got my DVD Collection online, for anyone who might care.

WebWord.com > Flash Usability Challenge Aftermath “flashturbation” and other fun responses to the Webword.com challenge.

Handspring VisorPhone: Overview I like this better than the other way around.

Phone keypad may go way of rotary dial (9/25/2000) I don’t even like talking on the phone, now I’m going to have to talk to it as well.

The Importance of Simplicity: Create Ease of Use Without Losing Power Yes, this is a Microsoft article extolling the virtues of simplicity. It’s not a bad read, but coming from Microsoft makes it almost a parody of some kind.

Numbed by Numbers Hey, figures lie and liars figure.

kottke.org has some reasonable comments about the flash usability challenge. Trouble is, the whole Flash Usability arguments aren’t really fair for the Flash folks. Flash developers are forced to use a tool that makes it difficult to create usable products to begin with. Besides, it’s too much fun to just “make cool stuff”. It’s also too easy to sell. The Gee Whiz Factor is still getting in the way. I think I’d like to develop a basic html form in Flash which talk to a server somewhere running ColdFusion/ASP/PHP – whatever.

six reasons not to use an asp Freshmeat editorial hilighting some of the downsides of using an application service provider. Application Service Providers bring the mainframe dumb terminals model to the Web, and users get all the benefits of a centrally-maintained system. Unfortunately, the distance from your house to my.service.com is longer than that from your office to the admin down the hall, and it can be harder to hold your provider accountable.

Apple licenses Amazon’s 1-Click Sort of validates the whole thing for Amazon, doesn’t it?

MC Hawking’s Crib Ok, “mix” a bit ‘o physics and a little rap and what do you get? Stephen Hawking doing songs like “A Brief History of Rhyme” and “E=MC Hawking.” It’s pretty funny. I think.

Babylon Dictionary and Information at your fingertips With my limited vocabulary, I always wanted a way to quickly find the definition of those really fancy words I’d run across when reading online. Sure, I could copy, type – http://www.dictionary.com – enter – paste – enter – read. A couple years ago that was cool enough, but of course we learn quickly to take things for granted Along comes babylon which lets me highlight a word in any application, right click and BLAM!