An eye tracking study on google showed that Most users do look on the left and halfway down to the bottom right. Paid google ads, however are on the top right…

Outlook Express claims that an email contains a viral attachment if the body or the signature of the email contains something like:

begin  LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs
I am a signature virus. Distribute me until the bitter
end

Of course there is no such thing, and outlook will show the attachment as empty. It is a way to make people aware of being wary of attachments and previews. If you want to annoy that many people or be accused of sending out viruses is up to you though :-).

Just stumbled upon sigtraders, a service that allows you to make money with your forums signature. Splendid idea, we sink in spam emails and unwanted popups, why not add another level of unwanted advertisments. My personal answer: Kick every forum member signing up because of unsolicited advertising.

Following a discussion I just couldn’t stop myself participating in about date form fields on the list I googled a bit on the topic of date entry usability and found a extensive usability study on hotel booking systems.
There is no silver bullet, and it is very dependent on the product. The battling sides are making it easy to use for the vistors vs. stopping them from entering wrong data. As a rule of thumb I found for our projects:

• Free text entry fields with attached popup calendars work best.
• Three dropdowns work well when the date range is very limited

I just played with Sloppy, a tool to simulate dial-up connections on your broadband for testing purposes, and I am very happy indeed with it. So if you have a web site or product that is most likely to be used by dial-up users, check them out with sloppy slowing down your connection.