What's next for Google Maps now that they've added Bicycling Directions? -
What they totally need to add is Walk of Shame directions… it would figure out the shortest, least visible route home!
- Just-got-laid strutting directions
“The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a filing cabinet into a car, why not do it with some style?”
Has anyone else noticed these UI updates to bookmark menus in Google Chrome? I’m running 5.0.342.1, and the changes are a very recent addition.
AFAIK, as of a week ago Chrome used standard Mac system menus (or at least close approximations) for the bookmark toolbar menus. Now they seem to be using these bastardized, overly-stylized, next-to-useless excuses for menus.
How many problems exist here? We can begin with:
What do we gain here? My authoritative list includes:
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“The precious commodity that we, as publishers, have to offer advertisers is the attention of our readers. Web page views are a terribly inaccurate, if not outright misleading, metric for attention. Subscribers to a full-content RSS feed are among the readers paying the most attention, but generate among the least web page views.” — John Gruber
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“That’s as far as I got before I realized I have to work today.” —
Wouldn’t it be rad if work was thinking about things like that? I guess on a good day it can be, but more please…
hope (via snarl)
“Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In the middle of the day, distractions are unavoidable. I wonder if anything worthwhile has ever been written in the afternoon.” — Scott Adams: Like a Night Watchman (via marco)
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