Jason Kottke’s recent post, People Read More than Books, is a thoughtful musing about how the newest generation of e-readers isn’t extensible for other purposes.

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RIP Geocities! Yahoo’s trailblazing web-hosting site has now officially shut down.

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For a great listing of useful UX resources, visit UX Booth’s  10 UX Blogs You Should Be Reading — other than ours of course! 

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Nostalgia can be so intoxicating. Sigh. Check out the L.A. Times’ 1984 review of the original Mac. It’s so cute! They put quotes around mouse, and one of the highlights is the display’s “crisp and readable text.”

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How many times have you given up on a form and said, “Forget it!”? If you’ve done this, you can bet your users will, too. Think Vitamin’s 10 Tips on Writing Hero-worthy Error Messages provides some helpful pointers on avoiding this fate.