Archive for April, 2009

Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design

1. Bad Search
Overly literal search engines reduce usability in that they’re unable to handle typos, plurals, hyphens, and other variants of the query terms. Such search engines are particularly difficult for elderly users, but they hurt everybody.
A related problem is when search engines prioritize results purely on the basis of how many query terms they [...]

Top 10 PlayStation 2 (PS2) Fighting Games of All Time

The Top Ten PS2 Fighting Games of all time was a bear of a list to create. The PS2 has seen so many fighting games that some of your favorites have undoubtedly been left off of the list. As a rule, PS2 fighting games that were only available as an import were left off of [...]

Top 10 World’s Strangest Laws

No Feeding Pigeons
Italy
Laws here are city-specific, and Venice takes issues with pigeons speckling their beloved buildings with pigeon poop. Likewise, officials don’t appreciate tourists adding to the crowd and mess in St. Marks Square by feeding said pigeons. They also don’t want visitors sitting around shirtless, climbing into fountains, or even sitting on the sidewalk [...]

Top 100 Basketball Players of All-Time

1) Michael Jordan
There isn’t a doubt in my mind that Michael Jordan is the best basketball player in NBA history. He was so good that he didn’t win MVP awards because of it. People got tired of voting for him so they started passing the award around to other NBA stars. In all, Jordan won [...]