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The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen. I have read a lot of Nielsen’s “Alert Box” usability articles and I like most of what I read there. I was interested to read further.

An interesting article from Arizona State University, Liberating American education, dismantling compulsory schooling (link no longer available), is something I have often thought about, having been involved in secondary, tertiary and adult education. There is something about those classes where students have chosen to be there. The students are alert, they are on time, they [...]

A Flash-based look at how the brain functions – and the implications for learning.

Statistics does not need to be boring. Gapminder.org has brilliant visual representations of data.

I enjoyed this math “news” item.

A user of my math site Interactive Mathematics asked whether 0 is a Natural Number or not.

Why was there a surge of interest in posts containing “math” on May 25/26 and during the first 10 days of June?

This was not made very obvious when I installed IE7: OS Updates–Do not reinstall any version of Microsoft Windows in any way after you install Internet Explorer 7. Do not upgrade in place or upgrade to a new edition. The workaround is to remove Internet Explorer 7 Beta, install operating system updates, and then reinstall [...]

Microsoft has released an interesting blog writing tool: Windows Live Writer. It is a WYSIWYG desktop application that allows you to write a post locally then upload it to your blog. My blog uses the WordPress engine. Why bother using Windows Live Writer when WordPress already has a WYSIWYG editor? Well, I stopped using that [...]

An article in CNN, London cabbies: Brain cell mightier than microchip [no longer available], talks about how London cabbies are not very interested in using satellite navigation systems. The cabbies need to pass the most difficult cabbie license test in the world, called “The Knowledge”, where they need to demonstrate that they know hundreds of [...]