links for 2010-03-01

"Designer Steven Heller traces the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936"

One scanable page of latest UX thoughts from a variety of sources, curated by Harry Brignull.

"Hollywood's hopes for a future built on digital film downloads have been severely undermined by research showing cooling consumer demand for movies online....Arash Amel, a research director with Screen Digest believes consumers have been deterred by an array of competing online platforms that prevent viewers from watching digitally downloaded films on the devices of their choice"

"Perhaps I've missed an obvious reason why it is acceptable to savage somebody for something they did six years ago, with a single man."

"I've just posted this idea to CurryBet Martin's feedback post about The Observer: 'How about a tip box?'"