links for 2009-02-18

Thoughtful article on the subject of design for reading on the web, as opposed to skimming. For example, let the body of the text stand alone further down the page: don't have other content alongside the main body of the text, but rather put it at the top, and the bottom. Pull quotes are okay at the beginning of an article, but will become distracting further in.

"Exorcising Laplace's Demon." I snorted coffee out my nose.

Very interesting outliner application, which stores its data in OPML or plaintext, and has an innovative information display interface. "In Treeview, Tree displays each levels of the tree structure from left to right. This would be more useful especially to drilling down into specifics, or to considering the matter of hierarchy which has tree structures."