links for 2010-05-04

• Google Online Security Blog: Do Know Evil: web application vulnerabilities
  (tags: security webapps google)
• Operation Mincemeat and the trouble with spycraft
  It was a dazzling feat of wartime espionage. But does it argue for or against spying?

  "Translation: the proper function of spies is to remind those who rely on spies that the kinds of thing found out by spies can’t be trusted. If this sounds like a lot of trouble, there’s a simpler alternative. The next time a briefcase washes up onshore, don’t open it."

  (tags: tradecraft books communication government history military newyorker security uk)
• Color Survey Results « xkcd
  (tags: color survey humor xkcd)
• What Every Developer Should Know About URLs
  (tags: url programming webdev reference WS_blocked)
• Guidelines for Writing a Good About Page
  (tags: webdesign good howto tips)
• 5 Radical Ideas from Usability Presentations | Useful Usability
  Everyone needs a good shake-up now and then, and that’s why these 5 radical ideas from 5 rad usability presentations are well worth your time. Being influenced by radical ideas can lead to big changes in how you do things, and thus bring big positive results. To improve, it’s sometimes necessary to throw-out old conventions, including some old conventions of usability and user centered design!

  The reality is your usability and user-centered design could probably use a boost, to among other things:

  * Help you do a better job of adding usability to design
  * Change the way you think about interaction
  * Present new ideas and new concepts to your processes
  * Help you sell your new radical ideas to the masses

  So, here then are the 5 radical ideas as presented from these 5 rad usability presentations.

  (tags: usability ux presentations ideas userexperience)

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