Obligatory computer geek content
I just hadda share this URL from Jakob Nielsen’s AlertBox. Nielsen, for you readers without sorceror-geek tendencies, is pretty much the Godfather of Internet usability. Whenever I wonder why a web page I’m looking at sucks so bad, he usually has the answer, backed up with hard statistical evidence.
Anyway, he recently released a column on computer usability in the movies. If you’ve ever wondered why something like Minority Report looked so fabulous and so totally unrealistic all at the same time, or if you never could quite swallow the pirate hack in Independence Day, here’s your answer:
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox: Usability in the Movies — Top 10 Bloopers
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/film-ui-bloopers.html
“This is a Unix system. I know this.” Classic stuff, that.
