OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Reducing Traffic Noise

As President of Australia, I will obliterate the casual use of the car horn to indicate “Good bye”, “Nice legs” and “Excuse me, I was in this lane first! Please find your own lane!”

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Efficiency of Banner Pages

One day, I am going to do some original research into a question that has plagued and haunted me – nay, us all – for years – a question that needs to be solved, once and for all, if we are ever to live in a harmonious society.

On a shared office printer, are mandatory banner pages simply a waste of paper?

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An Economist Looks at CAPTCHA and Porn

When you look at free porn like an economist does, you can see this is truly the best way to prevent comment spam.

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Keyboard Layouts

For some time, I have thought that there is only one correct position for the Caps Lock key…

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“And we owe it all to that spammer.”

In which we hear the story of a couple, united by spam.

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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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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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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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Flies from Another Planet

What would a Venusian think about zippers?

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