It’s Father’s Day, and if there’s one thing that a certain kind of dad loves to do, it’s look for typos in the newspaper. I swear it’s like a sport for them. They’ll be flipping through the features section just waiting for a slip-up.  I kind of get it. There’s a thrill in exposing someone else’s error. …
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Am I the only one that pushes a «pull» door about once a week? If designs are supposed to be intuitive, then why does it seem like I’m constantly being a doofus? You know a design is done right when you have no choice but to use it correctly. You look at it, you know …
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Few things bring people together like seeing something funny in the wild. You could be on a road trip with your worst enemy (though I don’t know why you’d be in that situation in the first place), hating their guts and swearing them off at every chance. But if you pass a road sign that …
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Fails are what makes us human. Though we might call them out, laugh at them, and even dedicate a whole website to categorizing and gawking at them, we love fails because they remind us that we’re real.  Computers don’t make mistakes, but humans certainly do. It’s why pencils have erasers. That’s why there’s such a thing as a «mulligan.» It’s why when we see Scarlet take that tumble, we laugh. Sure, we …
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We all make a typo now and then. We wouldn’t be human if we didn’t! I remember learning how to type in computer class in 4th grade. We would put orange silicon covers over the keyboards so we couldn’t see the letters and then take timed tests. Do kids still have to do that or …
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