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8 April 2004: googlewhack

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Googlewhack

Yep, that was me, number 1 (for about five minutes) with my fourth-ever googlewhack:

A screen shot of my latest googlewhack, proudly sitting at the top of the whack stack

8 April 2004 | top of page

Innovation

Here's a nifty patent application for a product designed for people who like to put pants on one leg at a time.

Donald Norman discusses the nature and usefulness of mental models, and how they can be used for making design decisions and for teaching. Avi Parush says your expectations (mental model) of an application are influenced by your experiences of using different devices, and it's possible to measure the usability effect of using the same application on different devices.

7 April 2004 | top of page

Ethics

Before Jim Lewis went to Congo, he thought American news media had a duty to publish photographs of atrocities. Now, having been there and done that, he's less certain: "I no longer think that what happens when horrifying pictures are published has anything to do with journalism." (via Disinfo.com)

The language of risk: "Should worst-case scenarios, if they are sufficiently terrible, trump all other considerations when politicians have to decide what to do? ...[T]he precautionary principle... [is] founded on [an] unjustified supposition: that in the face of an existential threat, some risks are just not worth considering."

7 April 2004 | top of page

Profit

In 1996 congressman Donald Rumsfeld criticised war profiteering by company Brown & Root. This year privately contracted military workers in Iraq (such as Brown & Root's employees) outnumber British troops 5 to 4. Brown & Root is a subsidiary of Halliburton, and Dick Cheney is a former executive of the latter. In January 2003 Cheney was still being paid by Halliburton.

Says "Alphaville Herald" editor Peter Ludlow, when gamers in the Sim world get bored they turn to sex and organised crime. Left to my own devices, I probably would too.

How e-voting threatens democracy.

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Words and music

"Could it be possible that ... music fans and artists can find their own ways of connecting with each other? And maybe, instead of a few hundred millionaires, we might have thousands and thousands of musicians making a decent living? Could that be possible?"

Describing animals can be tricky. Here's a handy list of words for plurals, collective nouns, sounds, gender and offspring, with some bonus jokes. I like the idea of a rumpus of baboons, but the author doesn't seem to have discovered that a young echidna is a puggle.

Michal Zalewski takes us behind the scenes at Microsoft: one geek's journey through the 'track changes' records of freely-available Word documents on the Microsoft site. He also makes available his text-scanning tool so you can check the .docs on your own web site. (via Language Log)

Watch out for slow children, sharp-edged signs and multi-directional one-way signs. (via This Is Broken)

The Klingon Language Institute has released translations of Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing and Gilgamesh. (via Ansible)

After playing with a random phrase generator, contributor Paul comments: "At base level, this just comes down to integrated organisational programming. You really can't fail with facilitating asset hardware. Our upgraded model now offers systemised monitored options." (Thanks, Paul)

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Search, and ye shall find

When you search PubMed, a leading database of medical research papers, you get a chronological list of articles. Using ClusterMed, you can have your PubMed results list grouped into hierarchical folders based on subject categories. The Vivisimo.com 'clustering engine' with the Google-like interface also works for Ebay, US government sites and other large, messy collections of web pages. (via Doc Searls)

"Hoping it will push them to the top of an increasingly competitive market, Internet portal Yahoo has added soul-search capabilities to its expanding line of search tools".

Blogstreet lets you see who's linking to your blog, who blogs about similar stuff and other indicators about the size and shape of the blogosphere.

Well, if they're offering 1 Gb storage for every Googlemail account, they'll *have* to expand off-world just to hold all the new servers.

Searching the web by shape is an intriguing notion.

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Sentience

"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."

7 April 2004 | top of page

Webology

It matters where you put links on your web page. Avoid the gormless "click here", check for link spatter, line 'em up for easy skimming and enjoy the benefits in both readability and search engine results.

A simple seven-step process for evaluating your web site's accessibility.

Slow downloads can discourage users and present accessibility problems. Which isn't good if you're trying to make a living out of web publishing--like "Business Week" magazine, for example. (via Doc Searls)

In online advertising, first impressions count: web users are more likely to click on an ad the first time they see it than on subsequent viewings.

People tend to read while watching TV, listen to the radio while surfing the web, and so on. Marketers haven't (yet) found a way to ensure these multi-tasking media users actually see advertisements.

Comprehensive written guidelines and design manuals don't necessarily ensure consistency across a web site that's developed and maintained by lots of people. An alternative is a "design pattern... a document that describes a specific design problem, such as presenting a login screen or creating a new account. A typical pattern describes the problem, the chosen solution, the rationale behind that solution, related patterns that the designer should be aware of, and other relevant details, such as the results of usability testing."

Got a content management problem? Web/IT consultant Jeffrey Veen knows how to fix it: employ some editors and writers.

Process, planning, deadlines: web publishing needs discipline.

So, what is the Web? It's "people and not just documents... It's the part of the Wide Web where the documents are live and have human origins. That are spoken as well as written, in real human voices."

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Beautiful things, beautiful ideas, beautiful people

Stanley Kubrick had a sense of humor as well as a strong design sensibility. The daunting instructions for using the zero gravity toilet still get a laugh: "Kubrick understood so well that the everyday hallmark of the 21st century would not be the wonder of technology, but our day-in, day-out struggle to master it."

Lists of links usually look dull. This 'periodic table' of links doesn't, and it's fairly easy to do in HTML. (via Language Log)

"[W]hat they find too fleshy I approve as sensual. When they complain of facile energy, empty of meaning, I praise the articulation of fictive space... To love Rubens is to accept that he fails where other great painters succeed. No painter can do everything. But the source of Rubens's failures may also be the source of his unparalleled energy, charm and inventiveness."

Tom Cruise splits... from his publicist, Pat Kingsley. Together they created "the world's most famous movie star and the one about whom the least is known or understood." (via Disinfo.com)

Ernö Goldfinger, the angry architect, was domineering, combative and worked on the assumption that he was unerringly right. He was caricatured as Ian Fleming's villain and produced unapologetically modernist buildings that are, at last, finding an appreciative audience.

Delegation is not about abdication or subjugation: done properly, it is all about empowerment.

6 April 2004 | top of page

.edu

An assistant registrar at the historically black Baton Rouge campus of Southern University is believed to have altered the grades of 541 current and former students for money.

"[T]hrough computer security failure and human error, [American universities] have exposed confidential information about hundreds of thousands of students and employees over the Internet, and experts say they expect the problems to continue."

Three students shouted questions and comments to Lynne Cheney during a public forum at the University of Maryland, and now face disciplinary action for "disorderly or disruptive conduct".

You'd expect problems from poorly maintained computers used by students and administrative staff, but IT security in a university environment has an added dimension: policy and internal politics. MIT's Jeff Shiller says "the more sophisticated research-oriented universities are probably in deeper trouble... Speaking as a network manager at an institution with Nobel laureates, it’s harder for me to set policy and make it stick. The more famous your faculty [academic staff], the more they’re in charge. And the more the faculty can do whatever they want, the more chaotic your network’s going to be." (nods to Pete Fuggle)

A creative-writing student at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco was inspired by a David Foster Wallace story. The student was expelled, the teacher's contract was not renewed and Lemony Snicket was turned away from a speaking engagement at the campus.

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We wish to inform you...

This month is the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Survivors are again living next door to those who joined the killing, maiming, raping and plundering.

Daily news stories report on progress towards justice but the truth and reconiciliation process is painfully slow--partly because of the huge numbers of people who need to be brought to trial in the Gacaca (village-based courts) and given an opportunity to apologise. Around 90,000 suspects are held in detention camps and about a quarter of these have confessed to their 1994 crimes.

In the last 10 years Rwanda's economic growth rate has averaged around 6 per cent, inflation stayed under 5 per cent, the currency exchange rate has been healthy and tea output has increased. Refugees are returning from Uganda. Kigali has new houses and other buildings, paved roads and good lighting in public areas, and a new privately-owned radio station. Says an AllAfrica.com editorial, "Peace has returned to the nation of 8.2 million and thousands of troops that had been deployed to the Congo are back in the country. Some Interahamwe commanders have also given up their rebellion and returned to Kigali."

Reading Philip Gourevitch's "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families" I was wildly impressed with Paul Kagame, a Rwandan who grew up in Uganda and returned with other exiles to take up arms against the Hutu and, by opposing, end the killing. Kagame became president in 1994 and remains in that position.

Linda Polman is less impressed with Kagame, and with the UN's management of its peacekeeping role, and explains why in "We Did Nothing: why the truth doesn’t always come out when the UN goes in".

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Allsorts

Says Warren: "Pretty amazing website about a woman who goes for a motorbike ride through the dead zone surrounding Chernobyl. It's like watching a science fiction movie about the end of the world." Coincidentally, I've just bought the DVD of "Edge of Darkness", after being persuaded by Chris Lawson's review of "State of Play" that it was a good investment. (thanks, Warren)

Old people say the wackiest things... (Thanks, Andrew)

When will spring come for Haru Urara? Perhaps never, if she keeps losing races, but ya gotta love a horse who wears Hello Kitty headgear. (Thanks, Paul)

There's nothing wrong with coming last: in fact, in San Francisco, you can be a joyful winner by building the model car that's last to cross the Walton Derby's finishing line (audio and video warning). (Thanks, Katherine with a K)

Clothing designer Gareth Pugh has seen one too many Target ads. (via Geisha Asobi)

The third season of Black Books is airing in England. The show's web site has lots of goodies for the darkly amused booklover, including kids' reviews of Andy Warhol A Retrospective, Designing Web Usability, Vampires of Fear, The Naked Lunch, Mastering Regular Expressions in PERL, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Lloyd's Jurisprudence, Mahabharat and Spartacus International Gay Guide. Happy reading! (Thanks, Paul)

At Harvard University, researchers bet on fruit fly fights to expose underlying biology of aggression. (via Geisha Asobi)

Penguin slap: the abominable snowman throws snowballs at the leaping penguins. You click to release the snowballs, aiming to splat the penguins into the target on the glacier. Cute, yet sick. (requires Flash/Shockwave) (Thanks, Andrew)

Found Magazine publishes "FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, doodles--anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life. anything goes." I'm rather fond of the to-do list for 27 April 2003. (Thanks, Rebecca)

When next I go to Berlin, I plan to stay at the Propeller Island City Lodge, as much a work of art as it is a motel: have a look at those rooms and let your imagination run riot. The hotel's web site also has movies and music. (via Geisha Asobi)

Sez Andrew: "OK this is weird--a manic floating Nigella head that bites your fingers off! ...still, it's a strangely engaging game." (requires some sort of plugin that won't talk to my browser) (thanks, Andrew)

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Neology

Serendipity is a wonderful thing. Last night I had to stop reading Dave Gorman's "Googlewhack Adventure" and put the book down for a while because I could no longer see through the tears of laughter. This morning, Mark Hurst blogged about a new Google game, googlephrasing.

"Gather up your vocabulary cards and parsing sheets. Take your lists of Attic equivalents and Homeric exceptions from the push-board in the hall. You may return my Smyth and pay any outstanding copy-charge fees by campus mail... You are no longer invited to my birthday... You are, put simply, a lazy student. Like the wren—who has his food dropped into his beak by his mother's claws, and then, by and by, grows, and, on the day he should be able to fly, prefers to fold his wings and nestle on the eagle's crest—so have you been in my weekly reading group. Well, no longer. Go."

The language of vampires.

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Weird science

Where did cows come from?

According to Moore's Law, the number of transistors that can be crammed onto an integrated circuit doubles every 18 months. Eventually physics will limit our ability to add yet more complexity to computer chips, and Moore's Law will need to be revised.

An astrology chart for bacteria.

Taxonomy puns.

30 March 2004 | top of page

Respect the suits

Ten things they don't teach in design school. "If you hope to accomplish anything, you will inevitably need all of the people you hated in high school... A suit does not make you a genius. No matter how good your design is, somebody has to construct or manufacture it. Somebody has to insure it. Somebody has to buy it. Respect those people. You need them. Big time."

Covey's seven habits applied to people who work in information management: parts one, two and three. For the rest of this monthly series, keep an eye on author Larry English's column in DM Review.

"Put simply, the effort of sharing knowledge has to be less than the value of participating. People have to see tremendous immediate benefit. They have to see, smell, touch and taste how it’s going to improve their work lives."

Content management is a process, not a technology.

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Creativity economics

BBC Online fights to justify, maintain role as public's voice.

The Picturing Women exhibition offers "historical and contemporary representations and self-representations of women—how they are figured, fashioned, turned into portraits, and told about in words and pictorial narrative." It contains "nearly 200 works [that] span the 15th through the 21st centuries, presenting photographic, printed, and painted portraits along with such diverse cultural artifacts as conduct manuals, historical costume, literary portrait sketches, advertising images, caricatures, silhouettes, and contemporary installation pieces." The online version of the exhibit has interactive stuff, e-postcards, teacher resources and pictures of the exhibits.

How architects can help you get fit.

Andrei Herasimchuk thinks Jakob Nielsen has the wrong end of the stick. "Simply adding a usability culture to a company will have some impact on the overall qualitative design of the end product, but it's not nearly enough. That is to say, the products that are created may become usable, but it won't guarantee they are well designed... Why? Because usability is an aspect of good design... Not the other way around." (via www.veen.com)

Richard Florida's views on the new class war have been getting plenty of coverage in Australia recently. (You'd think he was flogging a book or something...) He explains how the US Republican party's 'anti-elitism' could ruin the American economy. From this side of the Pacific pond, that's not necessarily a bad thing... provided we can avoid making the same mistakes.

Luke Slattery reckons the future of book publishing "requires a return to an elitist, and conservative, concept of the book: the book as knowledge; as art; the book as it was meant to be." Of course, everyone has their own ideas about what elitism is and whether it's a good, bad or somewhere in middle.

Officially sponsored fun in public places just doesn't work. "Public space gets its spirit from local people, from the ways in which they decide to enjoy themselves and live their lives together. Officials would do well to build attractive and well-designed spaces and keep them clean, and then leave the rest to the public... without interference. Who knows - they might even stop suing their councils."

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Thinking and talking

Far from spelling the end of written expression, new communication technology is allowing more and more people to become writers.

D Keith Robinson and his friends heard some bands at a conference. They wanted to hear more, so they looked up the bands' web sites. Twenty wasted minutes later, they still had no idea when the bands would be playing again in the local area. Yet, when Keith asked the band members why they had web sites, "the main reason given to have a Web site was 'to connect with our fans!'"

Some bands, like Powderfinger and Grinspoon and their web development consultants, know how to do it. (virtual wave to Karey :-)

"If you're 12 or 14 and you don't know HTML, your friends won't respect you," says Jamie Riehle, global manager of web publishing for Terra Lycos. "There is 'a cool geek factor.' Smart is cool again."

"Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for nonsmart reasons."

In the USA, John Trinkhaus thinks "People interact less with one another these days and more with machines. That can be isolating, possibly contributing to antisocial behavior." He watches people doing the little things--returning supermarket trolleys, paying for votive candles, taking more than 10 items through the express checkout--and reports on the results. "My main hope is to get people to think... And to smile. There’s not enough smiling in this world."

Like the walkperson, iPod allows you to add a musical soundtrack to your life. For some people, it makes coping with urban life less stressful. For some people (non-iPodders, presumably), there's a perception that personal stereos make public spaces 'colder', less communicative and interactive. One English academic is studying the phenomenon.

28 March 2004 | top of page

Webology

"Chinese websites have cautiously adopted an identity as an alternative information source--one used by an estimated 200 million people. Privately owned websites are seen by many young urban Chinese as a world of virtual semi-independence. Most sites focus on shopping, sports, and careers. But chat rooms, news groups, and spot polls have begun to gingerly open up sensitive issues including SARS, AIDS, police brutality, and legal reform." The growth of the Internet seems to be influencing Chinese government policy as well. (via Poynter)

Field studies: the best tool to discover user needs (Really? The best, no ifs, no buts, no equivocations?)

27 March 2004 | top of page

Douglas Adams and his planet-sized brain

Biographer Nick Webb and the lovely Robin Williams talk about Douglas Adams (Real Audio), the self-taught science fan and writer. Listen soon, 'cos the In Conversation radio program doesn't do transcripts and audio files are only available for a few weeks.

26 March 2004 | top of page

Hansel! Hansel?

A study by Spring S Hull finds that giving users a quick lesson in breadcrumbs helps people successfully navigate your web site. Hull suggests large organisations could save substantial staff time--and therefore money--by encouraging employees to use breadcrumb links on their intranet sites.

Converseley, Mark Hurst observes that "merely organising a site into taxonomies and sub-sections, and displaying breadcrumb links to show the hierarchy of the site, does *not* by itself create a good user experience."

26 March 2004 | top of page

Panda's Thumb goes on a virtual pub crawl

M'colleague (erstwhile, emeritus) Ian Musgrave has joined a group blog, Panda' Thumb, named for the Stephen Jay Gould book. Comments Ian: the site's "apparent aim is defence of science from the forces of irrationality, and committing bad puns..."

Sez the site's raison d'etre blurb: "The Panda's Thumb is dedicated to defending the integrity of science against all attempts to weaken it, distort it, or destroy it."

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Quickies 24 March

The art and emotion of 'mourning pictures', hand-made 19th century expressions of loss:

"Mourning pictures were a sincere expression of grief by the friends and relatives of the deceased, but one feels the impulse to say that they were also the product of an increasingly prosperous and self-consciously genteel society that was turning female mourning into a consumer lifestyle.

"(Well, they did! As Thoreau said, 'Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.')"

Reviewing Richard Dawkins:

"In the end, Dawkins's refusal to grapple seriously with the different-dimensions view is perhaps the least satisfying aspect of his treatment of religion. For one thing, it's unclear why a scientist (as a scientist) should be bothered by those who surrender all pretense of describing the physical world. (Conversely, it is clear why he should be bothered by idiotic creationists or by those who merely feign such surrender.) For another, Dawkins runs some risk of sounding like a man who denounces novels because they're all made up. ...I do suspect that matters are considerably more complex —and considerably more subtle—than Dawkins's arguments admit."

 

Stephen King on being an honest writer:

"Folks are far more apt to go out with a surprised ejaculation, however, then an expiring abjuration like, 'Marry her, Jake. Bible says it ain’t good for a man to be alone.' If I happen to be the writer of such a death bed scene, I’d choose 'Son of a bitch' over 'Marry her, Jake' every time. We understand that fiction is a lie to begin with. To ignore the truth inside the lie is to sin against the craft, in general, and one’s own work in particular."

24 March 2004 | top of page

Userati Deathmatch

Episode 1: the challenge

Episode 2: let the interface-off begin

Episode 3: the Adaptive Path Voltron

Episode 4: the unthinkable has happened

This comic is much funnier if you're even slightly familiar with the works of Jakob Nielsen, Jared Spool, Jeffrey Veen and his Adaptive Path associates, Donald Norman, Bruce Togazzini and Mark Hurst. If you're not at all familiar with these luminaries, scroll down and read the blog posts below the comix: the authors will give you lots of threads to follow...

24 March 2004 | top of page

Search visualisation

"Looking for a book, CD, or movie recommendation? Type in the name of an author that you like at Gnooks.com and up pops a screen of other writers. But what makes the site different is that the authors don’t appear as a scrollable list. Instead, the name you provide sits in the middle of the browser window while the suggested names are sprinkled about, quivering and dancing as though trying to elbow each other out of the way to reach the center [sic]."

24 March 2004 | top of page

Silver Stringers make the news

An MIT professor met a dozen senior citizens who told him they wanted "to be on the cutting edge" of the Internet. He taught them to use a computer, and they started Silver Stringers, their own online news community:

"[T]here's no question on my mind that this an extremely healthy exercise for older people. But for younger people, it does a lot to promote their own self-assurance and their own self values because they're doing things together. They have to, they want to be heard on subjects that normally people won't listen to them about in homes and in schools, taking on the most difficult issues."

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Yesterday's technology tomorrow

"I don't want tomorrow's technology today. I want yesterday's technology tomorrow. I want old things that have stood the test of time and are designed to last so that I will still be able to use them tomorrow. I don't want tomorrow's untested and bug-ridden ideas for fancy new junk made available today because although they're not ready for prime time the company has to hustle them out because it's been six months since the last big new product announcement. Call me old-fashioned, but I want stuff that works."

24 March 2004 | top of page

Tomorrow's technology today

Accenture reckons in the next five years technological advances will create a world:

  • In which objects can sense, reason, communicate and act.
  • Where for every physical entity or event, there will be a virtual collaborating double.
  • Where the time between stimulus and response will approach zero.
  • Where privacy and business insight will be bought and sold in a market that rewards those who build trust and harness the real-time economy.

[more]

24 March 2004 | top of page

Far Side remix

Worth1000.com's Photoshop funksters rework Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons, making photographic versions of some classics. Larson doesn't want his work published on the web, so this is the next best thing.

24 March 2004 | top of page

Quickies

Fast Company journalists report on keynotes and panel discussions at the recent SXSW Interactive conference:

All the fuss about gay marriages and legalising adoptions by gay parents seems to ignore some basic animal behavior. After all, if it's good enough for the penguins at Central Park Zoo...

20 March 2004 | top of page

 

2004 flipsocks:

17 Dec: the sock has flipped
10 Dec: anything anywhere any time
3 Dec: instant flattery
26 Nov: the steamroller of branding
19 Nov: fried v rice
5 Nov: the page with no name
29 Oct: and then there were none
22 Oct: filled with naughty laughter
15 Oct: get souls and disconcert the public
8 Oct: ooh, aah, ooh
1 Oct: pinch and a punch
24 Sep: design is the new art
17 Sep: footsteps of Aeneas
10 Sep: slow art, viral aesthetic
3 Sep: I can see your house from here
27 Aug: forever blowing bubbles
20 Aug: jargon for the digital age
13 Aug: beautiful plumage, the Norwegian blue
6 Aug: brokenated terribility
23 Jul: Alice underground
16 Jul: color-coded
2 Jul: for so long treated as nouns
25 Jun: looking for love, echidna-style
18 Jun: joy-to-stuff ratio
11 Jun: fun's fun but a girl can't dance all night
4 Jun: pink dinosaur
28 May: two people every minute
21 May: incompitnce [sic]
14 May: zygomatic smile
5 May: mailbox
30 Apr: bananaguard
23 Apr: mmmmmWAH!
15 Apr: playtime
8 Apr: googlewhack
2 Apr: we wish to inform you...
18 Mar: daffy dills
12 Mar: echo chamber
9 Jan: refund profologies

 

Also on this site:

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articles:
who is geoffrey ebert?
testing for the fun factor
chicken at the (higher education) crossroads
crawford's theory of interactivity
froghunting
home-page real-estate wars
the eagle has landed

listmania:
must-reads for web people
recent reads
pop-culture quotes

neology:
they shoulda been words

recipe:
lemon and rosemary risotto

reviews:
Written In Blood by Chris Lawson
The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams

Without whom (web):

frankenstein journal (Chris)
tbn97 (Troy)
webster's encyclopedia [sic]
science playwiths (Peter)
neroliwesley.com.au (Neroli)
Fraser
Jonathan
Maverick IT network consultants (Rick)
Look! There's a castle! (Brent)
Cairns Corporation (Gerald)
Homosapien Books (Julie and Bruce)
Southern Sky Watch (Ian)
Panda's Thumb (Ian again)
ABC Science-Matters (official)
science-matters (unofficial)
chisig
Bovios
Disinfo.com (Alex Burns)
Lee Battersby
Little Malop Gallery
Digest of Usability Resources and News (Dey)
WooWooWoo (Andrew)

 

 

Without whom (also):

Ramona P Lovechild
Dombardo
Katherine with a K
Katherine (no relation)
Catherine
Teresa
Corey
Claire
Claire (no relation)
Helsbels
Iain
Toby and Jann
Andrew
Paul, Warren, Dr K and The New Reality
Stephen
Tania
Trevor

 

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