links for 2006-08-18

Wein­berg­er raves about a new fea­ture of Library­Thing. Worth check­ing out.

Arti­cle on NGC show that stud­ies mar­tial artists’ capa­bil­i­ties using a crash test dum­mies. Sad­ly no armed styles were tested.

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”.

Saf­fer argues that you should only both­er with per­sonas if you com­pose them of research into user goals and moti­va­tions, not shal­low demographics.

“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.

Kei­th enjoys V for Vendet­ta on DVD. Darn, know I might just have to go out and rent this anyway.

Handy for the occa­sion­al mind sweep: the full trig­ger list from Allen’s GTD.