February 2012
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Easy with the alerts
Neven Mrgan notes an inappropriate use of modal alerts in Amazon Mobile:
When you view an item in the Amazon app and tap the button to add it to your wish list, it comes back with this:
alert, n an alarm or warning, esp. a siren warning of an air raid.
It’s really not that big a deal that I added an item to my wish list. There’s no need to lock me into a modal dialog. Just add the item and...
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An honest question for the TSA
Every day at your airport checkpoints, you screen thousands of passengers for objects that could conceivably be used as a weapons. If you find one, you confiscate it, and the unfortunate traveler continues on her way, cupcakeless but no longer a threat to national security.
You’re also looking for explosives, which is understandable. If you found a live bomb — I mean, not that you ever...