October 2010
36 posts
Holy shit. Who remembers calling the POPCORN number to get the time? “At the tone, Pacific Daylight time will be…”
“For instance, in our game we’ve got butterflies, and of course you need to...”
– Daniel Burka - Friction Can be a Good Thing: The role of gaming dynamics in user experience
“In Bermuda there’s no corporate income tax at all. Google’s profits...”
– The Tax Haven That’s Saving Google Billions - BusinessWeek
“People trying to tie reality together don’t have any data, just a lot of...”
– Hogan’s holometer: Testing the hypothesis of a holographic universe
“Even if we did see Android out there it would not matter because Android is...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : I’m not worried about Android. That’s why I keep talking about it all the time.
“The POLA states that, when two elements of an interface conflict, or are...”
– Principle of Least Astonishment - Wikipedia
“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the...”
– Andy Warhol on Coca-Cola (via implodr)
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
– Oscar Wilde
“The Journal found that all of the 10 most popular apps on Facebook were...”
– Facebook in Online Privacy Breach; Applications Transmitting Identifying Information - WSJ.com
“Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are...”
– Conway’s Law
Strictly No Photography →
Photosharing for pictures taken where you are not allowed to take them.
“Let’s make better mistakes tomorrow. Let’s scratch our heads and give up and...”
– Let’s Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow - Mike Monteiro - GOOD
WatchThe Desk: Taking a Look at the Desks of Creative People
“In the space of a few minutes, the complex, highly interconnected, tightly...”
– The stock market as a single, very big piece of multithreaded software
“The manila component of the name comes from manila hemp or abacá, from which...”
– Manila folder - Wikipedia
“It’s a terrarium for what it feels like to live in a Panopticon built out...”
– Eben Moglen - Freedom in the Cloud
john poisson: So I made a magazine →
johnpoisson:
In July I set out for a few months of travel and inspiration hunting in Europe. I’d just capped a seven-year adventure designing social media services, and found myself suddenly aware of how disenchanted I’d become with the various tools available for sharing photos.
The kind of real-time…
This was both as refreshing and gorgeous as you’d imagine — my...