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The demo cutout is also resting on carpet, not mounted to a steel frame. It does appear to require a fairly sturdy whack.
Side-scrolling would be even better. That's the mechanism that I use for normal cover flow interaction, and that's what I expected this to work with.

Of course, if you don't have an input device that makes it easy to side-scroll (like a mouse with a vertical-only wheel) this doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Buttons at the side, response to right/left arrow keys, or a horizontal scroll bar would make a good backup for users without a trackpad.

Clicking on the cards would also be a welcome mechanism, but I imagine it would be used to jump to a specific card, rather than to go through one-by-one.

Re:How the Air Conditioner Made Modern America on Monday July 18, 2011 @01:12AM (#2775196)
This is why I love living in Michigan. Like Minnesota, we get temps from well below freezing up to 100F. Real winters. Real summers. Crisp frost and gorgeous colors in the fall. Spring is worth celebrating.

I won't trade it for Phoenix until I turn 65. But yes, it does make heating, cooling, clothes shopping, and a host of other things a little more difficult than the southern states.

Re:Where the fuck is this on Sunday July 17, 2011 @11:31PM (#2774999)
The copyright notice blocks the links to the rest of the site for me (Latest Chrome, Mac 10.6): http://i.imgur.com/XU41V.png I'm surprised no one else reported this, so it might be a trickier bug.
Re:The Shortest URLs on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @02:45PM (#2710685)
Bug report: This service generates case insensitive URLs.
Re:Should I Change My Password? on Friday June 24, 2011 @01:28AM (#2691131)
Close - It will update to "Yup." The source code reads:

    if (!(typeof worldHasEnded == "undefined")) {
        document.write("YUP.");
    } else {
        document.write("NOPE.");
    }
And, it even comes with a warranty:

> <!-- if the lhc actually destroys the earth & this page isn't yet updated please email [email protected] to receive a full refund -->

I can second this with my knowledge of what my mother does for a living.

The hospital inputs their data into Epic medical software. The home care agency tracks their data in an 80,000-line Excel spreadsheet (less than 8,000,000, which is good, right?). My mother copies down the name and other personal identifiers like insurance numbers from the Excel spreadsheet, counts (with the end of a pen on the screen) the number of billable visits, and enters this by hand onto a printed form which receives minor changes as you noted. She then collates these forms into stacks for various insurance agencies, and faxes the piles to the appropriate numbers. She's an RN, has 20 years of experience, and this is what they pay her to do?

Oh, and her password for remote login to do this from home was (until last week when she told me because I was talking to my sister about password strength) literally abc123. This was the default set by the IT department about 2 years ago.

I will never work in medical IT due to real-life horror stories like this.