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• Parallel programming environments: less is more
  via Research@Intel (via DF): the point of this story is not to overwhelm your audience with choices (people may tell you that they WANT lots of choices but the reality is that if confronted with too many choices, they won’t make up their minds)
  (tags: work essay psychology marketing todo)
• The Forgotten Lens
  via Gary Voth Photography (via Coudal (via DF)): ‘Why You Should Ditch That Zoom for a Classic 50mm “Normal” Lens’
  (tags: graphics photography essay DSLR lens camera)
• Visualizing Fitts’s Law
  via Particletree
  (tags: psychology UI usability visualization math design essay)

And then it became clear to me: Depression Era folks and kids that grew up as part of the Video Game generation have at least this much in common: they pick up and save everything because you never know when you’re going to need it¹.

1. Though whether you need it to patch the hole in the roof or defeat the giant sewer dragon is a question that may once again split the generations apart.[↩]