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Jobby Lobby: October 2009
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Oct 16, 2009. About to partake in a BarCamp. So I decided to do a litte research on them. I eventually ended up reading " RFC 3092: Etymology of 'Foo'. Page 2, paragraph 3 reads (emphases and misspelling mine),. In 1944-45, the term 'foo fighters' [ FF. Was in use by radar operators for the kind of mysterious or spurious trace that would later be called a UFO (the older term resurfaced in popular American usage in 1995 via the name of one of teh better grunge-rock bands. Links to this post. Oct 8, 2009.
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Google me, Google me not | Design and Interaction
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Google me, Google me not. February 9, 2009. Posted by Melissa Quintanilha in Uncategorized. Google was once again smart enough to recognize that people may type one less “o” or a few extra ones. But a few of the gooooogle URLs were already taken. Check it out:. One less “o” takes you to Google’s page). One extra “o” also takes you to Google’s page). 2 extra “o”s does not! 3 extra “o”s takes you back to Google). 4 extra “o”s does not! This one says “It works! Ok, I guess that’s enough. You get the point.
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February | 2009 | Design and Interaction
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February 21, 2009. Posted by Melissa Quintanilha in delightful. Users usually find it really annoying to have to say they are sure when deleting an item, for instance. Some authors argue that we can totally remove this confirmation dialog and let the user ctrl z if a mistake is done. Netflix does it in a very elegant way. Google me, Google me not. February 9, 2009. Posted by Melissa Quintanilha in Uncategorized. 1 comment so far. One less “o” takes you to Google’s page). 2 extra “o”s does not!
