Not a Proof

Techdirt: "The company making the voting machines needs to prove that they're safe [...]
By handing it off to a single hacker, suddenly the assumption is that the e-voting machines are safe unless the hacker breaks into them.
So, should he not find a particular security hole, the company will start promoting that as proof that the machines are secure, when all it really means is this one particular hacker was unable to find a vulnerability."

A Word: רוכב אופניים

Techdirt: "Cyclist"
Or-
SignOnSanDiego.com: "Bicyclist"

Keep science off web

Guardian Business: Royal Society: "Making research freely available on the internet as it is published in scientific journals could harm scientific debate."

Nokia holds fire on mobile gaming

vnunet.com: "The company launched the N-Gage in 2003 but sales have been disappointing and, according to the company's roadmap, mobile gaming will not be a focus until 2007.
Nokia is concentrating on mobile music for the rest of this year, and next year's main push will be on driving mobile television."

Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles

Popular Science: "Once he tried nitric acid, a toxic chemical that gives off red fumes at room temperature. 'I got it making a really cool bubble, but it could've killed somebody,' he recalls. 'It ate through clothes.' "

Find a Human

paulenglish.com: "IVR Cheat Sheet to Find a Human - Here are the secret numbers and tips to bypass IVR phone menus to get to a human."

Thermal Dissipation Prevents Higher Clock Speeds

Tom's Hardware Guide: "A picture worth more than a thousand words. In the front is a Pentium Overdrive from 1993, complete with its cooler. The looming presence behind it is 'only' the standard Pentium 4 cooler from 2005. Will the future bring us even larger cooling devices?"

Social Navigation

MobHappy: Social Navigation - the Ultimate Mobile Search: "For all the high tech available, it is indeed simply easier to ask a colleague, friend or stranger how to get somewhere or where the nearest x is.
Actually, it's easier to phone someone on your mobile for this info, thatn use the phone itself to get it."

Online Shopping Problems

Online Shoppers Wary of Online Shopping: "more than 80 percent of shoppers polled said they are unwilling to accept lower levels of customer service online than they would offline [...]
"A single common Web application problem such as an endless loop or a business logic issue, for instance, could cost an e-business thousands if not millions of dollars."

Stopwords and Google's "See results for..."

ongoing - On Search: Stopwords: "refusing, by default, to search for common words is good usability practice; when I search for "Lord of the Rings", nobody misses the two words in the middle. But simply leaving words out of your index because they're common is a bug, not a feature."

franklinmint.fm: See results for...: "Looks like Google has gotten a little smarter in the past few years."

אורך שיחה סלולרית

הארץ - מאמר: "70% מהשיחות שיוצאות מטלפונים סלולריים מסתיימות אחרי הרבה פחות מדקה, מהן כ-40% מהשיחות (כולל השארת הודעות במענה הקולי ומשיכת הודעות) שאורכות פחות מ-12 שניות."

רמטכ"ל מנופח

הארץ: "הרמטכ"ל, רב-אלוף דן חלוץ, ציין כי חיזבאללה הוא שביקש
להפסיק את האש - ואמר כי הוא רואה בכך "שינוי מרענן"."

Remembering Names

CNN.com - Tricks to remembering names - Jul 22, 2005: "If you do happen to run into someone whom you previously met and can't remember his or her name, you have two options:
Look delighted to see the person, lock eyes and extend a warm 'Good to see you again,' and then find out the name from a friend or guest list later.
Or, with the same warmth, try the more direct: 'I remember you well, but your name has slipped my mind.'"

OPML definition

RSS Glossary: "OPML an XML-based format that allows exchange of outline-structured information between applications running on different operating systems and environments."

Unavailability

Gmail's section on Google's Personalized homepage: "Information is temporarily unavailable."

(Too many times.)

Clothes

Someone on Sophie Solomon's message board: "where do you shop? you always look so cool..."

מילה: תדמיתנית

שקופית: "כי אני תדמיתנית! לא חובבנית שמעתיקה מבורדות! אני מכינה בסיסים בעצמי!!!"

(מסתבר שזה יותר נכון להיות 'תדמנית'.)

Encryption insight

Cryptanalysis of MD5 and SHA: Time for a new standard: "This is how the science of cryptography advances: We learn how to design new algorithms by breaking other algorithms."