February 2012
9 posts
“The recurring metaphor in The Inmates are Running the Asylum is that of the...”
“Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers. As they...”
– The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
“The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly...”
– John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
“On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The...”
– Information wants to be free - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via slantback)
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the...”
– ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via zenchronicles)
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– Roald Dahl (via zenchronicles)
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs (via putorti)
January 2012
10 posts
“I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill...”
– Tenured Professor Departs Stanford, Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via davemorin)
WatchThe Bubble Computer
“Seventy-two is a magic number in printing and typography. In 1737 Pierre...”
– The Myth of DPI
“The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. The assumption...”
– Harry Bertoia
“Software options proliferate extremely easily, too easily in fact, because too...”
– Wired 7.01: The Revenge of the Intuitive
(via davidhoffman)
Frontiers through the Ages
dbreunig:
Water, 1400
Land, 1840
Gold, 1850
Wire, 1880
Air, 1900
Celluloid, 1920
Plastic, 1950
Space, 1960
Silicon, 1980
Networks, 1990
Data, 2000
10 New Years Resolutions for Designers →
You are not Jesus and comps aren’t for saving. If something isn’t working, start over. Otherwise the goal you’re working towards is saving your work, not solving the problem.
Also, comps do not have feelings. You are not abandoning them. (You have no idea how much therapy that sentence took. Seriously.)
This urge comes from not wanting to feel like the time they’ve spent on that comp is...
December 2011
6 posts
"...I think each of us has a finite amount of... →
99percentinvisible:
Hey! I said that!
“software skills are the most portable high-end skills on the planet. Spotting...”
– The Rise of Developeronomics - Forbes
Mobility is awesome. (via johnerik)
November 2011
8 posts
“We were surprised because we want each technology to be judged only by its...”
– These things I believe.
“If you work at a startup and you think you’re working too hard and sacrificing...”
– Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining
“We might think that design work is about you or about me or anyone else who...”
– The Particle - Frank Chimero
“Overall, I think it’s a good time to have a girl in the 21st century because...”
– Louis C.K. (via Briana Mowrey)
WatchWorking with Arturo Castro on some ideas surrounding face substitution. The scramble suit is a fictional technology from Philip K. Dick’s 1977 novel, “A Scanner Darkly”. It’s effectively a cloak that hides the identify of the wearer by making it impossible to describe or remember them. There’s a nice excerpt heretechnovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=997
Scramble Suit...
October 2011
13 posts
1 tag
“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got, back when I was 23 and newly out of...”
– John Lilly (via parislemon)
September 2011
9 posts
“The “split browser” notion is that Amazon will use its EC2 back end to pre-cache...”
– Fire - cdespinosa’s posterous
cesart:
David and Kevin, doing David and Kevin. http://gifshop.tv/m/BV8MAWWJI/
“There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other,...”
– Let the Games Begin | Glitch Blog
