Spitting Image: “Bondage in Everyday Life” Photos:
“Bondage in Everyday Life” Photos

for example from “The Amazing Church Camp”

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this makes me wonder about why people are tying each other up at religious events like this. I can’t help but question the way they are constructing the relationship between the people tying and the person tied, as there are always more people tying in these pictures. It seems to be related to an enactment of submission of sorts, but to whom? to each other, or two something else and what does that mean to the people’s lives.

Tragedy of the Bunnies:

This is a cool little quick game that demonstrates through comparison of two sub-games… the tragedy of the commons.

Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox):
The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.

Since my first attempt in 1996, I have compiled many top-10 lists of the biggest mistakes in Web design. See links to all these lists at the bottom of this article. This article presents the highlights: the very worst mistakes of Web design. (Updated 2006.)

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he just won’t admit that the primary mistake in web design is lack of cat pictures on the website. it is by far and away the largest mistake noted by all cats. that and lack of paw oriented interface.

Who knew you could cheat at chess? – Yahoo! News:
NEW DELHI, Dec 27 (Reuters Life!) – An Indian chess player
has been banned for 10 years for cheating after he was caught
using his mobile phone’s wireless device to win games, chess
officials said on Wednesday

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If they cheat at chess…… the can cheat at anything… and people frequently do. If you set up a system to reward the people who take advantages… then people take advantages that break rules.