Stopdesign asks if it’s time to move beyond 960. Hardware suppliers assumed market would want higher resolutions, but in reality final users don’t go beyond 1080×960 px like power users - developers, video producers - do.
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I wrote this answer originally on my google shared items, but I’m reposting here since I need more input.
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My theory is that final users didn’t migrate to higher resolutions simply because it makes typefaces smaller by default. had we grew the screens, while preserving typeface size’s ratio, people would go for it.
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Then again, we depends on corporate defaults, and those depend on programmers that - unlike final users - love smaller fonts to glance at more code.
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If that’s the case, it’s a huge blind spot.

well, it’s time to update my blog sidebar, huh?
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PictoBrowser is cool, and viral.
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crap, here am I replicating this cheesy youtube interface on my pristine blog. does anyone know a flv to mov convertor for mac?
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screenshot of my audioscrobbler music stats.
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dunno how the algorythm works… all bands above live in my heart, so I assume it’s working properly.
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for those not in the know, audioscrobbler is a nifty music player plugin (be it itunes, WMP, winamp) that sends the name of the songs you’re listening to a database. before you get paranoid, it doesn’t record the filetype, and the resulting database is protected by creative commons.
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after some threshold, the app starts giving you some insight of your music tastes. it’s a mlog, or your music log.