Nethack, “When it started, I had no idea it would be the game. The game where I would actually get the Amulet of Yendor, bring it all the way up out of the dungeon to the Astral Plane, and present it to my god for the win. No cheating, no hacks, no savegame duplicates, not even any notes taken. Just one run.”
The Lo-Fi Manifesto, by Karl Strolley. “The time has come to reject expensive consumer and prosumer software that hinders the extensibility of digital discourse and limits digital production literacy to programs and file formats that are destined for disruptive upgrades or obsolescence.” (Ironically, better zap the stylesheet.)
Windows Phone 7 Series interface design, Edward Tufte comments.
iPhone’s Missing Feed Reader, a comparison.
Prolog for note-taking, WJW.