This Blog Needs No Name | October

Official Usability, UX & UI Guidelines From Companies – usability and user interface design guidelines from companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Google etc.
The Search for a More Perfect Kilogram | Wired Magazine – The quest to find a more stable definition for the kilogram than the current chunk of metal in a vault in Paris. One contender is crafting a perfect sphere in pure silicon, the other is using electromagnets. Both try to attain absolute purity.
NY Times: The history of AIDS – The virus probably made the jump from chimp to human a handful of times, and was taken from Africa to the Americas by a single Haitian.
Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation? | Wired Magazine – On July 13, 2010, a cargo container arrived in Genoa, Italy. It was emitting torrents of radiation. No one knew what was inside. And no one knew what to do next.