How a judge is trying to sidestep Google: Bernard Hickey writes fairly and sensibly about the strange decision of a judge to order selective name suppression, which is surely a contradiction in terms. Judge David Harvey was trying to solve...
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Do the quick and powerful ALA survey
Take the A-List-Apart survey of web workers: it takes just a few minutes, and as you'd expect (considering who designed it) the survey is easy and intuitive. Doing this survey can also shed a little light on our own lives...
Problems with Perso-Arabic script
Three new Arabic scripts work in small sizes and have Roman equivalents -- something I find hard to get my head around. We know English is harder to read onine than on paper. We're the lucky ones, though. Sure, there...
Redesigning the stop sign
Redesigning the stop sign: this YouTube video essentially says the same old thing: use plain English... but it says it with flair. Like The Office, it makes you wince.
Making regulations readable
Excellent guidelines for writing readable regulations are published by the U.S. Federal Register. It's so nice when government organisations make resources like this available to the general public as well as their own staff. I hate think of the money...