January 2012
5 posts
Flickr protests SOPA by letting you darken other... →
December 2011
13 posts
Pianobar, a command line client for Pandora, has instantly become my favorite way to listen to music online.
I followed these instructions to install Pianobar with Last.fm scrobbling support, which is a feature that has been missing for a while. My previous solution was to use LastPandora, but that service broke when the HTML5 version of Pandora came out a couple months ago.
Music services like...
November 2011
6 posts
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design →
If you’ve seen Microsoft’s creepy Productivity Future Vision video, this article does a great job explaining why it (and most other interfaces today) are missing the point:
Our hands feel things, and our hands manipulate things. Why aim for anything less than a dynamic medium that we can see, feel, and manipulate?
@Horse_ebooks →
mrgan:
There’s no putting this horse back in the bag, so I’m just going to make sure you hear about it from me rather than from someone else: the best Twitter account of 2011 - arguably the year’s crowning achievement in comedy overall - is @Horse_ebooks. Almost certainly an unintentionally hilarious spambot, tweeting random bits of publicly searchable books, it creates the wide-eyed, sincere,...
October 2011
7 posts
Do It Now →
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Kaneda: Tetsuo!
Tetsuo: Kaneda!
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Structured Procrastination →
dailymeh:
The Ig Nobel prize is a parody prize, but a subtle one, honoring “achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.” It’s not exactly a prize for bad science: it’s more about science that’s funny, unusual or trivial in some entertaining way. Like magnetically levitating frogs or quantifying exactly how much really having to pee affects concentration. (Last year, the...
fallingfalling.com →
September 2011
9 posts
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andrewharlow:
An “investigation of worn-out frying pans” - Christopher Jonassen
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ditherme:
One of the coolest new blogs I’ve seen, courtesy of inky
“Early morning, it occurs to me, can be approached from two directions. Although...”
– Simen
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Watchstillwaterrunsdeep:
Delusions of grandeur in the animated short film Le Royaume (The king and the Beaver), written, directed and animated by Nuno Alves Rodrigues, Oussama Bouachéria, Julien Chheng, Sébastien Hary, Aymeric Kevin, Ulysse Malassagne & Franck Monier as student graduating film 2010 at Gobelins, L’école de l’image.
(via ikager)
The solutions to a few unsolved problems →
“A thirty-something dude who’s just been dumped by his longtime girlfriend...”
– The Movie by Neven Mrgan.
Even after getting to the end of this post, I would still watch this.
August 2011
5 posts
WatchPanda Bear - “Alsatian Darn” (unofficial)
Yet another amazing animation by Ori Toor, who created another video for “Lion in a Coma” last year.
What the NYC startup world needs (and doesn’t... →
svpply:
Currently reading this post (and resulting debate) via Chris Dixon’s blog, with a shout out to our own Zach Klein.
Should I give this blog a title? What should it be?
July 2011
14 posts
You're already a pretty good designer →
If you have been programming for a number of years, you probably have very good design and architectural coding skills. These skills are connected to visual design at a high level of abstraction.
Everything you already know about design and architecture in programming can be applied readily to visual design, with few exceptions. The problem is that your skill set is domain specific. You...
