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Why Your Links Should Never Say “Click Here” - UX Movement

2012 Jun 25, 1:06

I’ve been following this advice for many years now to the extent that I find myself rewriting text to make linking my nouns easier and shorter.

The one I wasn’t following that seems obvious only after I read it is to keep links towards the end of your text to allow users to follow the link once they’re done reading.

links at the end of the sentence allow users to take action faster

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Scumbag Steve's Advice for Annoying Facebook Girl

2012 May 4, 2:46

Blake Boston of the Scumbag Steve meme writes an open letter to the woman in the Annoying Facebook Girl meme.

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Language Log - Congress plans bailout for grammar epidemic

2008 Oct 23, 2:18I had no idea lingual prescriptivists vs descriptivists were split in a partisan manner: '... The Secretary [of the Department of Education] released a report that includes dire warnings of impending doom...The cause of this immanent catastrophe is, of course, those pesky linguists, the libertarian destroyers of good usage who claim that, well, anything goes. According to the report, "the language problem has now reached the crisis level and we are now experiencing a severe epidemic of bad grammar that will affect the very fiber of our nation." The Secretary added, "an alarming number of children are suffering from the bad advice given by those socialist, left-wing, atheistic linguists and we just gotta do something about it."'PermalinkCommentshumor language politics grammar

Reporters sans frontieres - Beijing Games 2008

2008 Jul 30, 10:45"Reporters Without Borders therefore offers the following practical advice to foreign journalists to help them cover the human rights situation in China." Install Tor, use PGP and other interesting things.PermalinkCommentscensorship china internet privacy olympics journalism

311 customer service rep has a window onto San Francisco's secret heart.

2007 Oct 9, 5:12San Francisco has a free 311 number similar to 911 except not for emergencies. You describe a problem or question and they find the correct city agencies to help you. Sounds like a great interface to public political agencies.PermalinkCommentsvia:thedpshow blog article humor phone advice sanfrancisco 311 news

Coding Horror: How To Advertise on Your Blog Without (Completely) Selling Out

2007 Jul 2, 9:18Advice on various forms of advertising for your blog.PermalinkCommentsarticle blog advertising howto reference via:swannman

How can I Make my Offline Life Easier?

2007 Apr 17, 8:04A list of simple things you can do to make life easier.PermalinkCommentsadvice howto tips

LibraryThing UnSuggester | Don't read THIS

2006 Dec 13, 3:49UnSuggester is the converse of Amazon's 'You may also like...' tool. You tell it what books you've read and it tells you what books you won't like. So far its done alright with me.PermalinkCommentsbooks unsuggester suggester humor social tools tool book amazon advice library librarything

Slashdot Comment - Setting Up The Greenpeace Ship w/WiFi

2005 Apr 3, 4:20PermalinkCommentshumor slashdot advice
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