Today’s XCKD, Blowing Me Away!!!!
WOW!
Shopping at IGA Pyrmont today, I was comparing muesli when I came across this.
The left side is 500grams, and costs $4.99. The right is 1.5kg, and costs $15.79.
By buying 3 boxes on the left, you save 83 cents, and waste 3x more cardboard, which takes up extra space in shipping and disposal, as well as, [...]
Tags are considered “an important feature of many Web 2.0 services”. Anything content related is bound to have tagging facilities embedded. Yet, when it comes to granting access to published content, we are stuck with archaic, pre-web controls 1.
We are forced to squish people into access boxes. People nearly always have overlap, again, Reality is [...]
With the launch of the iPhone, a movement has begun—Mobile Open Internet Access. This movement is going to really hurt the Australian Telecommunications Industry due to their investment in The Walled Garden. I’ll demonstrate, from a slightly insider’s perspective, their extensive investment in this Walled Garden and how they got it wrong.
The Carrier’s Walled Garden [...]