correct me if i’m wrong

Some things are simply too cool not to share. Dontclick.it is one of them. It’s a novel user interface concept that removes the “clicking” element and relies solely on mouse movements and hovers.

It’s not perfect. I found myself accidentally hovering over items on occasion that landed between my mouse button and my target. The user doesn’t always know which items will lose the state of the program and which will not.

I would imagine it’s an enormous design burden, also. Creating a pre-planned application with this concept in mind is certainly feasible. But growing a program based on this concept would quickly spiral out of control and would need constant re-designing.

Overall, kudos to the authors. It felt completely natural by the time I finished reading through the site. Writing a script to change all the “onClick” actions on a website to “onHover” would be an interesting exercise. I’d be interested to see other sites adopt this methodology.

The folks over at prefkt.se have created a fun little tool called Typealyzer. It (presumably) performs sentiment analysis on the text in your blog to give you a psychological classification. My blog is classified as…

INTP - The Thinkers

The logical and analytical type. They are especialy attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications.

They enjoy working with complex things using a lot of concepts and imaginative models of reality. Since they are not very good at seeing and understanding the needs of other people, they might come across as arrogant, impatient and insensitive to people that need some time to understand what they are talking about.

Not terribly inaccurate, in a broad-reaching horoscope sort of way. Thinking, after all, is one of my favorite activities…

Thanks to Greg Mankiw for the pointer.