PanicGoods – Nice T-Shirts For The Panic Family. – beautiful drag and drop interface–perfect for UpNext!

People lose excitement about products as more and more are “on sale” – perhaps why Woot.com is so popular (sells only one item at a time): “Tversky and the young Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir asked experimental subjects how they would react to a desirable Sony appliance placed in a shopwindow, radically marked down. The offer…more

Why we’re ‘happier’ with fewer choices than with many – “Schwartz suggests that it has to do with the irrational way people measure ‘opportunity costs.’ Instead of calculating opportunity cost as the value of the single most attractive foregone alternative, we seem to assemble an idealistic composite of all the options foregone. A wider range…more

Hegel on freedom – “The ordinary man believes he is free when he is permitted to act arbitrarily, but in this very arbitrariness lies the fact that he is unfree”

Bissantz & Company – Sparklines as a TrueType Font (TTF): Bissantz Sparkfont – great stuff!

Usability Articles Timeline – uses sparklines to show trends in articles written on different topics

The Map Is The Territory – visualizing conversations, histories, networks, and more

The New Yorker – review of The Paradox of Choice

Design and Evaluation of Embodied Conversational Agents – how to design a Clippy that doesn’t scare and irritate people

Loom Software – software that visualizes conversations; like sparklines for conversations…