mikehuffman

Not to sound like a fanboy, but GEB is one of the few books (outliers being another) that really made my critical thinking skills about the world, society, and my place in it change. I literally feel like it expanded my mind, or at least my capacity for critical thinking and awareness of such.

A 30 day free trial of adobe after effects and a $20 template tweaked to your needs, along with $30 for professional voiceover, would have moved you to something that would be very close to what apple does.

And would probably have got you there a lot quicker.

http://videohive.net/searches?sort_by=sales&type=files&#...

http://www.provoiceusa.com/cheap-voice-overs.htm

If MPAA wanted a workable sinister solution to the SOPA/PIPA problem, it would offer immunity to youtube, twitter, myspace, facebook, reddit, digg, etc. Which would allow for the abuse to continue unabated without all of the "common folk" getting excited about it.

While putting my data completely in the hands of another company makes me nervous, I have used s3 since its release and have had no problems. Amazons really seems to "get" developer needs. I do wish they would ease down a smidge on thier pricing in general, but otherwise I really feel about them the way I feel about google at this point.

The fact that you can make composite keys should make that irrelevant.

Edit: to clarify, I think that composite keys would make your problem limited to 256 distinct applications, not, for example, 256 customers, users, etc.

I would say that very technical books need editors more than very non-technical books. Most technical books are for learning, reference, or both. Therefore, tiny mistakes in technical books can cost the reader in very real terms, whereas an incorrect pronoun in the new twilight book still gets the same idea across.

I am beginning to believe that the only thing that will convince the politicians is to go ahead and pass SOPA, then everyone just have every large commercial site shut down constantly with SOPA complaints, after all there are no repercussion for ruining someones livelihood with SOPA.

Along with sunchild's feedback, I would also say that selecting an item from the dropdown should tokenize it (it has been selected after all!).

Also just a side note from my own experience, I have found modular input boxes to cause cognitive friction for users in almost all cases except adding "cc" and "bcc" users to messaging systems. Otherwise, it seems to slow people down when using...at least from my tests. This guy http://www.ryancramer.com/journal/entries/select_multiple/ gives a pretty good walk-through of my own findings.

I personally have found that this library http://www.suumit.com/projects/bsmSelect/examples/index.html (in particular example # 5) along with actually animating the "fly ins" of the tokens, to be very obvious to the majority of users when a small number of multiple selects are needed.

Along with everyone else's activity indicator complaint, I also think that color coding the bottom "info bar" area of each item according to category would be useful for quickly scanning and separating all of that info with the eye.

Path really seems to be killing it with new (but acceptable) ui features. The last time I remember such large groups of people just accepting dramatic ui changes without loudly complaining was windows 3.1 > windows 95 start menu.

My issue with SOPA, etc. is the whole "Punish you first, possibly irreparably, then find out if you're guilty later" aspect of it that carries no consequences if it is abused as such.

I actually like this very much. Simple. Does one thing, well, visually, and easily. No real bells and whistles, but for what it is that's fine. On a side note, I felt that the video, though of a fairly low production value, did have a sincerity and "approachable" vibe to it that I liked as well. I'm not sure how you might monetize something like this, but all around ... good job!

I agree. This seems like a very expensive solution to a problem that really doesn't exist.

Not that I disagree with your point about Cato Institute's bias, but this mashup http://www.datamasher.org/mash-ups/spent-student-and-sat-sco... of SAT scores vs expenditure per pupil would suggest that more money != better education.