The Many Sliders of Photoshop CS4
UI sprawl.  ★ 

Google Promoting the Droid on Google.com Homepage
Because the google.com homepage is almost always ad-free, and space there is not for sale, I would call it the most valuable ad space on the entire Internet.  ★ 

OpenOfficeMouse
The OpenOffice.org open source community has designed their own mouse. It has 18 buttons. This is apparently not a joke. Update: The same designers made an automobile, too.  ★ 

Dan Frommer on the Lack of Consistency Between Android Phones
The Droid has multi-touch support in the OS, but doesn’t use it in the UI. The cheaper HTC Eris runs an older version of Android OS and offers multi-touch, but only in HTC’s own custom apps.  ★ 

Joshua Blankenship on the American Airlines/Dustin Curtis Thing
Interesting retort from Joshua Blankenship. I agree with him that Dustin Curtis’s original post regarding the AA.com website was flippant, to say the least. But Curtis isn’t the point. “Mr. X”, the UX designer whom American Airlines fired, isn’t the point. The point is that American Airlines is clearly a failing company. They’re losing hundreds of millions of dollars every quarter. The experience of traveling on one of their flights is terrible. Their website is terrible. These facts are not unrelated. How does this happen? It happens when a company is run by executive