February 2010
50 posts
January 2010
72 posts
“CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic...”
– Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing Apple Tablet
“Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros “stone” + ichor...”
– Petrichor (The Smell of Rain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Humans suffer from a subjective viewpoint. We see the universe with us at the...”
– 52 Weeks of UX: Apple’s iPad: For what Audience? (via davidhoffman)
“I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the...”
– J.D. Salinger, passed away today at 91.
“Have you ever wondered why every pornsite banner knows where you live, but no...”
– I will make 100 redesigns because I’m sick of startups
“We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone...”
– Arthur O’Shaughnessy
(I’ve always loved the way this sounds.)
“Aliph was founded in 1999 by two Stanford graduates, Alex Asseily and Hosain...”
– In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits
“When people feel like they are getting what they want, they continue forward....”
– Web Forms for People - Articles - MIX Online (via iamboz)
Why 30.1% of numbers start with 1 →
Since there are nine possible digits, you would expect that one-ninth (11.11%) of the numbers would have 1 in the leading digit position. However, this is not what you will find– about 30.1% of the numbers will start with 1. It gets even stranger from here.
(via hn)
Know, think, choose, do.
“People started using Twitter and Facebook for direct messages instead of E-mail...”
– What’s Next in Web Design? (via iamdanw) (via slantback)
Three Randomly Satisfying Interactions
opening a strong push-button umbrella
peeling the clear plastic off the screens of new electronics
uncorking a bottle of wine
What else?
“Do something compelling. There’s a trillion people writing blogs that need...”
– Frank Chimero (via marco)
“During the late ’60s, intelligence agencies were giving much thought to...”
– Wired 7.04: The Open Secret
Interesting piece from Wired on the shady origins of Public Key Encryption — still baffles me that it’s only 50 years old. (via)
“The recent news that Conan O’Brien will be replaced by Jay Leno has caused white...”
– #131 Conan O’Brien « Stuff White People Like
That don't make no cents.
How is there no ‘cents’ symbol on a QWERTY keyboard? I would have bet a hundred bucks it was there if I didn’t look.
“Fifteen years ago, when the terms of contracts like ours were dreamt up, a major...”
– Open Letter From OK Go
Awesome, awesome post by Damian of OK Go. I bought their album immediately after reading this.
“A nonce word is a word used only “for the nonce”—to meet a need that...”
– Nonce word - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Things I Will Never Understand: people who play music out of their cell phone speaker on the bus.
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her dead husband Carl Sagan (via savagemike) (via atheistramblings)
Beautiful
(via phazerblast) (via jonahray)
“Google publicly and famously surrendered the integrity of its searches to...”
– Douglas Rushkoff (via azspot), giving an explanation worth considering. (via marco)
“But whatever your view, you have to accept that Google spent four years, and...”
– Soul Searching: Google’s position on China might be many things, but moral it is not
Maybe it’s just me, but if we’re going to be fair about it, Pat Robertson’s comment isn’t really all that much crazier than the idea of an invisible man who can hear your thoughts and make you live forever.
Watch your blind spots.
“An entire generation has disregarded copyright law. It doesn’t matter whether...”
– Explaining The Copyright Bubble… And Why Big Corporations Want To Keep ACTA Secret | Techdirt (via rafer)
Homeless man in the front seat is explaining Atlas Shrugged to the driver. I really like riding the bus sometimes.
Winter English Camp: Day 1
As mentioned previously, my friend Tom is busy teaching English to 3rd and 4th graders in Korea. Hilarity ensues.
tommichael:
Next, I had them play some good old street dice for where they would sit and organized them into groups. These groups, I told them, were their new families, everything we were going to do in the next two weeks was based on group competition. They gave themselves team...
“These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered—combined with the...”
– Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
This smells like a bluff. I doubt Google.cn is going anywhere.
LOUD NOISES
It’s unfortunate when you unintentionally offend someone, but I’ve always found it pretty easy to tell the difference between people who are offended, and people who insist on publicly appearing to be offended. If you’re the latter, consider yourself part of the problem.
…I mean, TOPHERCHRIS RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE.