Links for 2006-08-18

In Links on 18 August 2006 with no comments

• In-line tagging at LibraryThing. Many-to-Many:
  Weinberger raves about a new feature of LibraryThing. Worth checking out.
  (tags: tagging LibraryThing socialsoftware)
• Martial Artists’ Moves Revealed in “Fight Science” Lab
  Article on NGC show that studies martial artists’ capabilities using a crash test dummies. Sadly no armed styles were tested.
  (tags: martialarts science TV research)
• frieze The Art of War
  Disturbing and fascinating article on the ways in which the Israeli Defence Forces uses contemporary architectural theory and philosophy in their war with Palestine. Particularly chilling are the descriptions of their “micro-tactical actions”.
  (tags: architecture philosophy war research theory military israel)
• adaptive path » persona non grata
  Saffer argues that you should only bother with personas if you compose them of research into user goals and motivations, not shallow demographics.
  (tags: demographics personas marketing IxD UX UCD Cooper design research goals motivations)
• Designer as Trickster
  “Sometimes to do the right thing, organizations have to be tricked into doing it.” — Saffer compares designers to the trickster figure. I feel like Loki once in a while too, so I can relate.
  (tags: Loki trickster designers design IxD)
• Adactio: Journal – V for Vendetta
  Keith enjoys V for Vendetta on DVD. Darn, know I might just have to go out and rent this anyway.
  (tags: JeremyKeith VforVendetta movies comics AlanMoore review)
• Trigger List – 43FoldersWiki
  Handy for the occasional mind sweep: the full trigger list from Allen’s GTD.
  (tags: GTD DavidAllen 43Folders productivity)

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