When Good Interfaces Go Crufty. An anonymous reader writes “A good article over at mpt on why good interfaces go crufty.” A nice read before or after a visit to the Interface Hall of Shame. [Slashdot]
Examples of Interface Cruft:

• Saving is outdated, we shouldn’t have to remeber to save what so ever. (mabye label versioning?)
• Mac’s Quit cruft (IE has this right)
• File Selection Dialog seperate from the file manager
• Tracking file references by unique id instead of name/path
• file path dependancies for program installations
• Right Click dragging issues in windows

The riddle of interface uniformity. Mark Baker has posted some further thoughts on the related issues of addressability and interface uniformity. He writes: … [Jon’s Radio]

U.S., Pushing for Broader Ban, Blocks U.N. Anti-Cloning Move. The U.S., supported by 36 other nations, blocked an initiative on Thursday for a worldwide ban on cloning to create human beings, insisting that the ban should include all forms of human cloning. By Julia Preston. [New York Times: Politics]

embracing and extending the “ecosystem”. At a Tokyo conference on Intellectual Property Rights of Software and Open Source (hey, I didn’t pick the title), Msft… [Lessig Blog]

Political Asylum. What should the Democrats do now? [The Motley Fool]

your name in b00bz [jwz]

Tablets Mightier Than the Keyboard?. Many companies have tried, and failed, to make pen-based PC’s. Microsoft is now trying again with its Tablet PC operating system. By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]

“Today’s innovation in AggregatorLand will allow people to create user interfaces for UserLand’s engine in any language or environment. In Flash, .NET, Java, DHTML, Cocoa, Python, Tcl, Perl, you name it. People want every kind of user interface imaginable. We want to leverage the work we’ve done in aggregation engines across all possible environments.” [Scripting News]

One Word: Yes!!!! 🙂

Sendo junks MS Smartphone, joins Nokia camp. Joins Nokia Series 60 club [The Register]

How the world sees Americans. Journalist Mark Hertsgaard traveled the globe gathering opinions about the U.S. He talks about the surprising results. [Salon.com]