My shared links for January 23rd through January 25th: Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu. « Canonical Design – Canonical is moving towards no menus and just using a quicksilver-style "HUD" smart text interface. That's great – menus stink and this gives a path to voice control too, but there's [...]

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My shared links for November 19th through November 25th: Norway: an Eden with wifi – FT.com – "Visiting Norway during the global crisis felt like prosperity tourism, or “wealth porn”." The Axis of Eval: The extensible way of thinking – An interesting way of looking at requiring types: it hampers extensibility… U1DB in Launchpad – [...]

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Marco Arment wrote yesterday about mobile computing being more exciting than what he called “Desk” computing. I’m a fan of Marco’s writing, and I usually agree with him, but that post got me thinking. I can’t argue that mobile isn’t exciting, but I disagree with his assertion that desktop computing is a solved problem. He’s [...]

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