It depends on what you mean by honest. Because there are ways to still be nice and be honest, it's just less blunt and more indirect much of the time. The answer to "how do these jeans look on me" can still be "I like your other ones better" without being "you look fat in them." Just like, the answer to "how are you…

Nook has decided not to update, but instead to e-mail customers and tell them what will be broken. Keep it classy B&N.

In usability we call them "dark patterns" (for a fun book on the subject, see "Evil by Design"), or ways of hiding charges or e-mail subscriptions so that you won't notice them as you're signing up for things. It's the reverse of usability. Basically, how to use a human beings lack of attention to detail and mental…

I have to admit, widgets are one of the few things I miss about my old android phone. That and the physical keyboard.

So, the problem is that I have an "internship" that's not really an internship. The company wanted to hire on a User Experience expert without any strings, and without having to pay much. So they hired someone working on their PhD so they could call it an internship. There is no one above me to learn from. My boss…

I like to be able to have my notes on me at a moments notice. And I meet with a lot of different product groups, so it's good to be able to have the search function on those notes. But my job may be different than most.

I have done salads in the past, but I find that they take me the whole 30 minutes (or sometimes more) to eat. I can't eat a salad fast for whatever reason.

I work in an office, but I sometimes end up with the same time constraint issue that I have 15 minutes to eat something fast. Any good suggestions for when you don't have a blender handy?

They gave me a desktop from 2006. Besides for it's obvious bugs and problems, it can't come with me to meetings, hence the tablet. Also, they track your every move on it. I would not even read lifehacker on that thing.

I have a small amount of space between a wall and a hill. But it's an excellent spot for a garden!

1. You had at least a dozen service staff say on the last post that the pooling just isn't true. It was just one person who frequented a few places in NYC who said that they pool tips. It's not frequent around the US and not true for franchised restaurants. So stop spreading false information.

So far for me, it seems like IM+ doesn't tell Facebook when I've seen something. So maybe any third party messenger does this? Could be wrong. But it does put a notification on my lock screen with most of the text so I don't even have to open IM+ to read what they said. And that doesn't pop up as seen.

It's a cool idea for walking I suppose, but looks like it would be warm. I don't really want to sweat more than I have to.

Allowing us to use outside devices is a "security risk," or something. So only full time employees with company purchased laptops have laptops. They also don't have public wifi. Only company purchased devices have wifi access. We also are very discouraged from using USB keys (although everyone does it).

As an intern they won't give me a laptop, or let me bring my own, so I bring my tablet for notes and communication. It still upsets them a little, but there's no rule against tablets.... Yet

They both suck and they both are awesome. It depends on the user and their needs. That's why there is more than one OS, because you couldn't possibly make all people happy with just one. Both are necessary. I would never buy my mother an Android device because she has problems with the TiVo, and the amount of tech…

None of these work in small towns. :/ I've tried. Makes me sad. And our town isn't even that small (pop. 30,000), but not a big enough city to get noticed on these sites.

I sometimes wonder if trying to treat food science like hard sciences is the wrong way to go. Maybe we should treat it more like psychology. There's just so many individual differences between people. In psychology we know that there's an average, or a statistic, but usually there are exceptions and such vast…

Agreed. The only part that was pooled at the three places I've worked was tip share, meaning what you paid hosts, bussers, and bartenders for helping you do your job. I don't think pooling is common at all. Pooling is not done in the nation wide chains Applebee's or outback or any of outback's sister stores (cheese…