B'Bye Button

Joel Spolsky has written a short and quite funny article called Choices = Headaches. In the article he describes the 9+ options available when shutting down a computer and slims them down to 1 option... the "b'bye" button.

This highlights a style of software design shared by Microsoft and the open source movement, in both cases driven by a desire for consensus and for "Making Everybody Happy," but it's based on the misconceived notion that lots of choices make people happy, which we really need to rethink.