Unintelligent Design

Posted by jfleck on 23 January 2004, 9:01 pm

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Committing Journalism

Posted by jfleck on 23 January 2004, 7:36 am

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Partisan Science

Posted by jfleck on 22 January 2004, 7:27 pm

Something I wrote elsewhere, in which I invoke the work of the incredibly interesting Roger Pielke Jr..

ATMs and bad UI

Posted by jfleck on 22 January 2004, 7:22 pm

Seth Nickell on bad ATM user interfaces: Despite the fact that most ATMs only handle money in multiples of $20, they still require you to enter the “cents”. So asking for $40 entails the button sequence 4-0-0-0. I almost always withdraw $40, so I perform this series of presses without a lot of higher brain …

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Therapy

Posted by jfleck on 22 January 2004, 7:16 pm

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The Pageant of Democracy

Posted by jfleck on 22 January 2004, 8:45 am

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St. Agnes

Posted by jfleck on 21 January 2004, 7:13 am

Today being the day of St. Agnes, we are apparently supposed to put pee in our shoes. Or something. I’m a little unclear on this one. Agnes was just 13 years old back in the day when (as the Book of Days puts it) “she sang hymns while the executioner was hacking at her neck”. …

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