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POPSAt the All-You-Can-Eat Buffet, Don't Ask -- Observe "Instead of asking consumers what features they wanted in a digital camera, the study should have presented them with a few digital camera prototypes and then observed how they were used. Consumers' success or failure interacting with the prototypes tells us more than a thousand surveys, questionnaires, or focus groups ever could." "Wouldn't it be liberating to be able to make design decisions based on the way your customers actually use your , rather than the way they tell you they use it? Or the way you think they use it?"
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POPSTop 5 CSS layout tips Some generally good stuff collected in one page. Sometimes it's easier to start with an existing design than reinventing the wheel.
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POPSRobot Scans Ancient Manuscript in 3-D Reminiscent of a cut scene from the game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, here is a robot arm that can make 3-D scans of ancient documents. This one differs from the game concept in that it doesn't perform automatic translation as well. ;)
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POPSThe Myth that Image DPI Is Relevant To Web Images The source site, emdpi.com, seems to be a great site for clearing up common misconceptions about basic graphics terminology and definitions. For example, it also mentions that the "em" is -not- "a square the size of the letter M" (I'd seen that one before), and explains that in Windows, an inch as defined by Microsoft might not be an actual physical inch - and why.
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POPSIs she worth marrying? Or at least keeping around for a bit? The author (not me) asserts that he's tried this with 3 girls with long-term potential ... "Girl #1 : Reached over and turned them off .. several times because I kept turning them on ... she never said a word. This girl ending up being psychotic and tried to kill me ... without saying a word." "Girl #2: Kept asking why I was doing it ... proceeded to tell me I was stupid ... began to yell at me ... then told me that she hated that part about me ... I never spoke to her again" "Girl #3: Just sat there like nothing was wrong. Finally I felt stupid and turned them off myself. Then I felt embarrassed. This girl I'd marry ... but she thinks I'm crazy."
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POPSSupport Project Erin! Downloading one file everyday may help save a life...
I'm Rebekah, and this is my first clip here. :D Well, I figured I should pimp this part out of the Project Erin Site. Erin is a 29 year old living in the US who suffers from two painful Neurological disorders- (Chiari malformation and cranial lesions). She is not begging for donations, all she asks is that you download one 3 kb text document a day to support her (virus/spyware/malware free)! If she gets 5 million downloads on the file, she will get $10,000 enough to cover some of her medical expenses. Just go to the her site, give it a looking over. I've personally downloaded the file- it simply states everything on the front page of the website. Please just give it a consideration, yeah? It doesn't hurt you at all to do it, just 10 seconds or so to download the file. Easy as pie! If you're feeling generous, her site offers where to donate. http://community.livejournal.com/projectdownload/318.html www.projecterin.com (I just want to send some hits and luck her way
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POPSHow a statistical formula ((M-1)(S+1)/S) won the war "The basic idea was that the highest serial number among the captured tanks could be used to calculate the overall total. The German tanks were numbered as follows: 1, 2, 3 ... N, where N was the desired total number of tanks produced. Imagine that they had captured five tanks, with serial numbers 20, 31, 43, 78 and 92. They now had a sample of five, with a maximum serial number of 92. Call the sample size S and the maximum serial number M. After some experimentation with other series, the statisticians reckoned that a good estimator of the number of tanks would probably be provided by the simple equation (M-1)(S+1)/S. In the example given, this translates to (92-1)(5+1)/5, which is equal to 109.2. Therefore the estimate of tanks produced at that time would be 109."
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POPSStone head mystery leaves area vexed "It appeared last Monday in the early hours of the morning," said Fiona Gould, the owner of the Forresters Arms Hotel in the village of Kilburn, North Yorkshire. "I love it. We've nicknamed it Forest Lump. We've put him on the end of the bar and he gets a pat on the head before everyone goes to the races."
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POPSWar Is ... I've just discovered PicturesOfWalls.com, a user-submitted gallery of spotted graffiti, and this was the most attention-catching one I've seen so far. Undecided about whether to flag this as Mature. Any public consensus either way?
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POPS"Henna Pecked": Beware black henna tattoos. (snopes.com) "Pure henna is green but dries to a dark brown or orange hue. Black henna is a PPD-boosted synthetic version of the real thing. Para-phenylenediamine (PPD) is used in these concoctions to darken designs and thereby produce dramatic black patterns. Black henna can make delicate skin erupt into blistering redness that sometimes leads to permanent scarring. The reaction can also spread, causing grotesque full-body swelling, itching, and skin sloughing."
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