Paul Irish

There were over 200 winners of BusinessWeek's Design Awards. Here are the best.

The Muwi innovation lawn mower takes grass cuttings and turns them into something fun. The blocks can become balls for children to play with or be combined to make a chair or anything else you can think of.

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Paul Irish hmm!

In the 10 years that I've seen dialogs like these, I've always clicked "No" or "Restart Later" and the software ALWAYS works. The software installs indicate it's mandatory, but never is it functionally mandatory. Not TortoiseSVN, ISO mounting utilities, not even Microsoft Office; it always works without a reboot.

So why is this pattern so widely adopted?

Paul Irish hmm!

paullll irish: how can i learn regular expressions?
paullll irish: best
designgods: Hmmm..
designgods: you're looking to learn ruby regex, I assume?
designgods: I learned from a Perl book, then moved to the Perldoc regex references. Since Ruby shares an almost identical syntax, that should be a good start. If you have perl installed on your machine follow examples in a terminal or run a .pl file to get the hang of it.
designgods: move up to larger bodies of text… find some READMEs and see what you can parse out.
designgods: finally, once you've gotten a good feeling, move to the ruby regex docs as well as other illustrative resources (Why's (poignant) Guide was a great overview, and I think he goes into regex a bit)
paullll irish: :D
paullll irish: DONE! thank you!

Paul Irish hmm!

Myspace just added a feature where their musician's flash player stays paused if you're not currently looking at it.
Now you wont hear seven simultaneous songs if you throw open a bunch of profiles in tabs.
Thanks!

Paul Irish hmm!

every time i see your ugly little face pop up in my system tray,
i know who to blame for my browser hanging for the past 20 seconds.
how come you are so huge and yet do so little?
can you suck less?

ps. let's see if Apollo can help rid the web of you.

Paul Irish hmm!