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Radical reversals become literal with the other kind of book that Shiga produces: Choose Your Own Adventure. The first of these, 2001's "The Last Supper," had the user unfold a sheet in different directions depending on what choices he wanted to make, starting with whether to eat a brussel sprout or not. The most remarkable of these books, "Meanwhile...," is a photocopied, hand-constructed wonder. Rather than the usual left to right and top to bottom layout, the panels are connected by a maze of tubes. At some point these tubes lead off the edge of the page...
...that goes into the jumbling of important messages, hackers and security types alike realize that while encryption is hard, people are easy. All too often, the best-scrambled plans of cryptographers are laid waste by an overworked IT guy who forgot to flip the encryption switch or a lazy user who picked a too obvious password...
...coordinated effort is the PBHA open house, and with 82 programs it’s overwhelming,” she says. “We’ve thought about doing a fact sheet with the individual groups and what makes them unique. We want it to be more user-friendly...
...guided bombs, which are guided to their target from planes flying at about 15,000 ft., JDAMs can be dropped from 35,000 ft., beyond the reach of much enemy fire. They can be unloaded 15 miles from their target, offering pilots additional protection. Plus, the bomb kits are user friendly. "It takes me about an hour's work to launch a cruise missile but only 10 minutes to launch a JDAM," says Lieut. Colonel James Dunn, a B-52 bombardier at Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base who lobbed the bombs in Afghanistan...
...DIED. ALPHONSE CHAPANIS, 85, co-founder of the science of ergonomics, whose belief that products should be engineered from the user's point of view resulted in such canonical creations as the Touch-Tone phone keypad; in Baltimore. Chapanis also applied his user-friendly credo to the design of bomber cockpits, voice mail systems and oil exploration techniques...