Links For A Sunday Morning

• When It Comes To Shampoo, Less Is More
• Goodbye Google

  Yes, it's true that a team at Google couldn't decide between two blues, so they're testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can't operate in an environment like that. I've grown tired of debating such miniscule design decisions. There are more exciting design problems in this world to tackle.

  To repeat what I said last week...Google is no place for a designer.
  Reactions to the announcement - Google smothers designers, Google's "designer drain" and a more balanced one from, surprisingly enough, Valleywag - Google's Data Fetish Drives Away Its Top Designer

  It's a microcosm of what's going wrong at Google: The rigorous culture of making every decision quantitative, every process algorithmic, results in a coldly efficient experience, with no room for the human quirkiness that makes sites like Flickr so appealing. It's hard to argue with Google's financial results. But who wants to work inside the bowels of a perfectly tuned machine? If Google runs by the numbers, it hardly needs humans. And that's why people like Bowman are leaving.

• Barack Obama Interview With Jay Leno - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
  Still cool.
• Academic 'discovers' six works by William Shakespeare
• Facebook Polls Users On Redesign. 94% Hate It.
  Firstly, design by democracy doesn't work. Secondly, if God herself came down to resdesign Facebook 94% users would still dislike it.
• Who has the most Followers on Twitter? Top 100 for India
  At #13(right now as I am posting this) is 13 yr old Meghna, who is probabay the most popular 13 yr old twitterer/blogger around.
• Improving the Everyday: 8 Useful Objects that Need Fixing
• Scenes from the recession
• Photo Feature > Bharat Sikka's Indian Men
• 'American Idol' bosses have decided final four: Staffer
  This was proved wrong this week when they didn't save Alexis. But it shouldn't really come as a surprise. I think they should start doing this on our singing contests.
• MyAlltop
  MyAlltop enables you to create a custom Alltop page that contains only the subscriptions to the websites and blogs you want.
• My Life With Cables
  Nice graphics. Check out the rest of the blog and subscribe to it.
• SXSW Web Awards Winners
• Opening More Control for Everyone
  You can now make your Facebook profile public to everyone. I suppose its ok for people like me who don't mind making the profile public but I don't think too many people will opt for it.
• Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace
  Nice. My English teacher used to tell me to...break it down...as I wrote 4 page essays in 9 sentences. That was back when I could actually write a proper sentence.
• No money, no show: Films to go off multiplexes soon
  That'll be the death of me :|
• Indian Film Song Lyrics
  Explained with simple graphs.
  :)