Window Dress for Success

Window ChromeNow that Mac OS X Tiger has given us yet another variation on window chrome — the user interface ‘parts’ that frame windows in the operating system — I got to thinking about how they all work together. Well, to begin with, I’ve more or less given up on the idea that there truly is any kind of overarching strategy at work between the various styles of chrome offered by Apple. For instance, there’s no clear reason to me why the Finder is adorned with brushed metal or that Mail 2.0 looks completely foreign from its logical close cousin, the Address Book. Even saying there was, at one point, some kind of tidy logic governing chrome styles, that original concept has taken yet another debilitating body blow.

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106 Independent Economists Conclude Proposed New Jets Stadium in New York Will Not Benefit Taxpayers

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The non-partisan research research institute says, “A vast body of economic research on the impact of sports stadiums suggests that the proposed Jets Stadium on Manhattan’s West Side, now estimated to cost $1.925 billion — more than three times the cost of any other NFL stadium — will not generate significant net economic or fiscal benefits.”

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