posts from 2010 / 02 / 16

1. Eggcorns in Technology: A list

   over 16 years ago Permalink#

2. To @gruber: Windows Phone 7¹ infographic porn² is built right into its damned name. #s are noise.

   ¹ http://j.mp/dkboBT
   ² http://j.mp/9Ait5o

3. Nice to see a fresh, lean UI in the Windows Phone 7 shots — great use of the screen edges to imply ← presence →, but strange use of numbers.

4. What’s the name of the trope of adding redundant modifiers to static states? F.ex: drowned to death, electrocuted to death, worked to death.