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I’ve recently been struggling to express why a complete site overhaul and relaunch will probably result in a lot of very dissatisfied users. As usual, someone got there before me and said it so much more eloquently than I could: Designing Embraceable Change, The Quiet Death of the Major Re-Launch
(via the excellent IxDA mailing list)
Update: A supporting link in a similar vein.
Not a Nanoguitar
A nanoguitar, devised at Cornell years ago, has been “played” for the first time by shooting laser light at the silicon “strings.” A newer version of the guitar [...] twangs at a frequency of 40 megahertz, some 17 octaves (or a factor of 130,000) higher than a normal guitar.
Plus a better article, courtesy of Google. Although pumping a “string” up to radio frequencies with laser light seems like an intriguing alternative to quartz, I wonder if the most interesting thing here is the showmanship behind the project – a nanoscale silicon rod vibrating at 40Mhz ain’t that interesting, but dress it up as the world’s smallest guitar (a flying V, no less!) are you’re going to get a lot more press attention (and, presumably, funding).