links for 2009-11-20

• Consternation online for Times’ use of Edward Woodward blog tribute – Times responds | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
  What is sauce for the goose etc etc
  (tags: timesonline copyright theft contenttheft piracy journalismcouk)
• Children in Need and Doctor Who - a lot can happen in 12 years - currybetdotnet - 18 November, 2005
  Tonight we get a clip from the end of Dave Tennant's tenure in the TARDIS. Is it really only November 2005 when Children In Need featured a special scene bridging "The Parting Of The Ways" and "The Christmas Invasion"?
  (tags: bbc television currybetdotnet childreninneed doctorwho)
• The BBC homepage and Children in Need - a lot can happen in a year - currybetdotnet - November, 2005
  One thing that I think the modular personalised BBC homepage lacks is the ability to reflect zeitgeisty events. Children In Need might irritate a lot of people with forced joviality, but I rather liked the fact that the BBC site used to smack you round the face that it was on. Having one tab with a picture of Terry Wogan isn't quite the same somehow.
  (tags: bbc childreninneed)
• Historical Minifigs - a set on Flickr by Morgan190
  Oh. My. Word. Historical people as LEGO Minifigs. Chaucer looks mean. Could there possibly be a finer set of images on Flickr?
  (tags: lego flickr)
• Changing headlines | BBC - The Editors
  The BBC gets the headline keyword stuffing bug - don't suppose they'll be going as far as that 3AM Girls site though.
  (tags: bbc bbcnews seo headlines)
• Four Key Principles of Mobile User Experience Design - Dakota Reese Brown - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
  "As mobile UX designers, we have both opportunity and choice in front of us. The opportunity is to establish the foundation principles of a stable, yet still emerging, experiential space. The choice lies between getting caught up in the excitement of the fad du jour or asking ourselves the difficult question of what foundational principles am I following, or establishing, with the work that I am currently doing".
  (tags: usability mobile userexperience ux boxesandarrows)
• Preview: London Cringe Night - Londonist
  "We've all been through adolescence. And, as the London Cringe Night organisers recognise, most of us have the diaries, suicide notes and bad poetry to prove it. Sarah Brown found her old diaries and presumably decided the cringing she did while re-reading them to herself just wasn't strong enough. So she decided to read them out loud. To an audience. The Cringe Night was born".
  (tags: londonist cringenight teenagers)
• Confirming Passwords Is Annoying: Is There a Better Way? | Viget Advance
  "The defining characteristic of a password field is that it abstracts text as dots. While the intention of this behavior is understandable (it makes users feel secure and protects from prying eyes), the unintended effect is that it creates a usability problem. Users can't tell if they've entered a password incorrectly until after the site's validation informs them. It's like typing with your eyes closed".
  (tags: usability password ui interface design registration)
• Log in or sign up? - Leah Culver's Blog
  Thoughts on how to make the "Login with my existing account" and "Sign up for a brand new account" more usable.
  (tags: usability forms ui design webdesign interface ux)
• Scroll Clock
  Infovore describes it thus: "It's a digital clock made out of scrollbars; divs being resized to force overflow and generate a scrollbar make up the seven-segment display. Bonkers."
  (tags: pointlessbutgreat)
• The Daily Mash - M&S ADVERT OFFENSIVE TO EVERYONE
  "Here's an idea for an advert - what do you f***ing sell and what does it f***ing cost?" ROFL
  (tags: dailymash marksandspencers advertising humour)

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