More on user interfaces

Carrying on from the previous post about how user interfaces have evolved, here's one that's exciting. It could mean a revolution in how we choose to look at files on the computer. I think very soon the computer will become an extension of our analog brains. We will be working with analog representations of digital processes. Starting from force feedback on your dumb joystick right up to whats there on this video; we will not just be typing on keyboards or clicking with mice, we will be working with data using interfaces through which we can touch, feel, sense, smell and taste. Being the pervert that i am, i am just imagining cyber sex five years from now. Good times are ahead.

When the party is over

As all the hubbub and excitement over the iPhone slowly dies away and people are looking at it more realistically than as a miracle answer to all their mobile telephony phantasies, many uncomfortable questions emerge. TheFirstPost asks them here.

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The Big Picture

I was reading Joel Spolsky's latest article from Joel on Software and i found it, yet again, amazingly insightful.

...your mind gets into a bad habit of overestimating how clearly it understands things. It always thinks it has The Big Picture even when it doesn’t.

and

What kills me is the teams who get into the bad habit of holding meetings every time they need to figure out how something is going to work. Did you ever try to write poetry in a committee meeting? It’s like a bunch of fat construction guys trying to write an opera while sitting on the couch watching Baywatch. The more fat construction guys you add to the couch, the less likely you are to get opera out of it.

Absolute gems. Please also read my other posts on meetings.

Well, I don’t know about you, but I can’t code “revolutionary.” I need more details to write code.

Typically Joel.

An amazing insight into BlackHoles

This is the best presentation I've seen about black holes in space. Simply amazing!

And you thought this post was about african fannies? Pervert!