1. flickr had a bit of a redesign yesterday (they're calling it gamma) and while most of the features are great, I think they've made a huge mistake by having pages laid out in three columns. Three is just wrong -- the design, which was wonderfully elegant before, now seems cluttered and busy. I guess the change was about filling the screen now that 17" monitors are widespread, and if so I appreciate their leaving room for a bookmarks sidebar (many sites overlook this in their zeal to claim all that pixel real estate, most notably the evil New York Times) but I'm really going to miss all the clean white space of their old design.
2. And are the Chicago police enforcing the law against talking on your cell phone while driving? It's hard to imagine that they are, given all the time I have been spending on the phone each afternoon during my 45 minute commute (no, I haven't caused any accidents... that I know of). Am I just pushing my luck by blogging about this? Seriously, these kinds of enforcement tactic questions are kind of a classic game theory problem, and from my vantage point I feel like I've found a solution. But information travels slowly, so maybe I'm just underinformed. Another possibility that occurs to me is that the Chicago police might be using a selective enforcement strategy with this law (otherwise known as racial profiling).
I'm not sold on the redesign, although I like being able to view more photos per page. I don't know how I feel about having sets on the righthand side. It's a bit jarring, but I'll probably cotton to it with time.
it's definitely jarring -- many features are difficult to find now, and it's hard to say whether that's because it's new or because the design is flawed. i've noticed, for example, that it's much more difficult to open up a slideshow unless you're in a set.
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