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No wonder users rely on the mouse so much. Most browsers do an embarassingly bad job of making the focus obvious, so users feel compelled to click on fields to orient themselves.

"Talking Hands" takes readers to a place like nowhere else on earth: the village of Al-Sayyid, a remote Bedouin community in Israel where everyone "speaks” sign language. There, scientists are discovering the essential ingredients of all human language - and more...

"Is Joost going to last the year?" asked Mike Butcher at Techcrunch last month, after it emerged that the company had fired its chief technology officer - who on the same day joined the BBC's iPlayer project.

She said the federal agent copied her log-on and password, and asked her to show him a recent document and how she gains access to Microsoft Word. She was asked to pull up her e-mail but could not because of more...

Here's a thing I'd like to see added to jaanix: a way to view all comments you posted, and some way to be notified (on a specific page) when there's a response to one of your comments.

We recommend the introduction of a new exception type: throw new SchrödingerException("Value should not be null."); It is impossible to determine if any exception is a SchrödingerException, as any attempt to examine or test its type will cause the exception more...

Ten common mistakes in icon design.

David Gurle's boss talks to O'Reilly..

"The European Union this week will review a proposal that will require all non-European travelers to submit biometrics when entering the region."

A parody on a sketch from Monty Python.

"assert{ 2.0 }", a Ruby library, replaces most assert_* functions by one function: "assert". You can pass it a block to assert it's true, and it will automatically generate intelligent error messages when the assert fails.

A comic about what is appropriate and what not, and what this means to someone who doesn't really understand our society. (This comic is safe for work no penises are shown in it.)

I don't know if this is the best way to report a bug, but I'll do it anyway. Since yesterday, my preferences have been reset. That is, all sliders on the left are exactly in the middle, even though I more...