Today I discovered the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible, a website that strives to address the following catch-22: …faith tells [believers] they should read the Bible, but by reading the Bible they endanger their faith. The SAB’s annotations flag things like * Injustice * Absurdity * Cruelty and Violence * Intolerance * Contradictions * Family Values *…
Driving into the city on I-80 today, I saw a billboard for BAJobs.com touting the website’s “better interface”. I think it’s the first time I’ve seen User Experience (UX) highlighted so prominently to sell a website. Does this mean the market recognizes the narrowing distinction between websites and software? Does it mean UX is leaving…
On Anca’s blog tonight, I came across this H.L. Mencken quote… Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted…