OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Name Game II

Imagine a site that provides a common first name, and you and your friends try to guess who the highest page-ranked person of that name is.

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Throttling Poor Usability

“People didn’t realise back then that there might be a better way. They just used the same systems their parents, and their parents’ parents, and their parents’ parents’ parents used.”

“And is that how the Usability Wars started?”

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It’s hard to wreck a nice face

Apparently, I am a dead ringer for Adrien Brody… and Clark Gable

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Security Questions

Before I can tell you your new password, I need you to garlphrumph kwellaos.

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Retail and Reretail: Shop Redundancy

For the last 10 years, I have visited a shopping area occasionally, and I watch with interest the current levels of redundancy in the assortment of retail establishments.

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Announcing EmailShroud 2.0

EmailShroud 2.0 is now freely available.

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Meta-Gaming and Hitori

In response to a few questions, I will attempt to explain the heart of my meta-gaming issue in more detail with an example from Hitori.

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Bored?

Once up a time, I was trying to concentrate on the essay I was writing, but I had been working on it for a while, and I was having trouble remaining focussed.

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Ethics of Puzzle Solving Techniques

I started to read the question: “Anthony and Janet are chemistry students and are having an argument about-”

“Stop there!” interrupted my father!

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Snakes on a Plane – the 1969 Original

I’m sorry. When I had this idea, I felt a strange compulsion to execute it, against my better judgement.

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