Source: https://daverupert.com/2018/04/pitfalls-of-card-uis/

«In some ways this outcome is the opposite of what you were intending. You wanted a Card UI where everything was simple and uniform, but what you end up with is a CSS gallery website filled with baby websites.

The desire to reduce clicks increases complexity and raises the cognitive load.»

Wow….

Source: https://alis.me/x/everything-wrong-with-science-fiction-is-john-w-campbells-fault/

«Unfortunately, Lee Hardcastle’s Pingu’s The Thing aka THINGU may, in fact, be Campbell’s only decent contribution to the entire SFF genre; a nuclear-level take I will now attempt to nominally defend.»

Source: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1036343426797596672.html

(tl;dr: It’s not a matter of “getting them interested”. “They” are already interested. It’s a matter of not shutting folks out/down, and instead not assuming and just being nice/civil/respectful.)

https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/world-airports-voronoi

Wow…. Thank you, Mastodon.

Source: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Sentencing-Underway-for-Ex-Balch-Springs-Officer-Convicted-of-Murder-491972191.html

Ouch. But… at some point, we are responsible for our own actions. 😦

«The defense started to bring witnesses to the stand Wednesday, including Roy Oliver’s mother, Linda. She testified that her family was shattered when Oliver’s 3-year-old son, Tab, was diagnosed with autism. She asked the jury to consider the minimum sentence of five years, so Oliver could still be in his son’s life.

“But consider his son… he doesn’t need – my son was raised with a father in prison and deservedly so. That man deservedly needed to be in prison. And I know how hard it is to be a single mother,” Linda Oliver said.»

Source: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/08/23/the-awful-thing-i-saw-in-prison-that-stunned-me-into-silence

I saw this come across my radar screen a few days ago, but didn’t read it then, but it’s floated up again and I read it this time. Worthwhile. It’s not some gory thing that got done to an inmate, nor some piece of incredible cruelty on the part of the staff, but a sad glimpse into a part of life we don’t see very often.

Also, I’ve added this site to my NewBlur feed (which I rarely read, but at least it’ll be there).

Success has a thousand fathers.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1034773938327498753.html

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-29/miami-s-other-water-problem

Seawater rise = groundwater rise.

«Lapointe adds that one of the ways researchers track septic-tank contamination is by tracking the levels of acetaminophen in the groundwater. “People’s medications are coming with that septic-tank effluent.”»

Mmmm, acetaminophen….