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bravenewwhatever: The PC running an advertising projector in...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:25:11 +0000

bravenewwhatever:

The PC running an advertising projector in Odessa crashed and displayed this error box in the sky #capitalistsurrealism

Apparently this is from 2009.

A 150 x 70 x 40 cm sculpture of the Windows Solitaire win...

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:11:08 +0100

A 150 x 70 x 40 cm sculpture of the Windows Solitaire win state, by Skrekkøgle ∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆ (via, via)

The Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Quebec, is a genuine feast...

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:42:08 +0100

The Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Quebec, is a genuine feast for the eyes. It’s a convention center with a design relying mostly on its fabulous coloured windows. (via JPG: Photos: “Candy Coloured Palace” by Johanne Brunet)

"An entire industry of manufacturers offloaded their complete user-experience to the third-party..."

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:07:00 +0100

“An entire industry of manufacturers offloaded their complete user-experience to the third-party provider of their operating system. Now they’re at a point where that provider, Microsoft, is misfiring and producing poor software. The manufacturers don’t know how to improve the user experience to their customers, let alone be in a position implement and support it.”

- Ben Ward, concluding his long (but right-headed) commentary on a BBC News report: Windows 7 pricing gets unveiled.

Want windows? Use windows

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:00 +0000

Chris Clark:

Camino jumped on the “Hey Guys! We could totally make it look like Exposé” bandwagon.

… you know what’d be even more useful? Tabs that work with real Exposé.

Peter Bright:

All applications get thumbnails, but applications with explicit support for 7 will be able to add thumbnails on a finer-grained basis. IE8, for instance, has a thumbnail per tab (rather than per window).

Me:

As Matt Jones put it: You’re kidding, right? If you want tabs that behave like windows, just use bloody windows.