February 2010
“My beef with the discourse of “diversity” in a nutshell: it screams “give us...”
– Women, Men, And Other Things Done Wrong By Silicon Valley: MicroISV on a Shoestring
Ironic Sans: They Don't Make Computer Manuals Like... →
Hilarious excerpts from an old-school Acer computer manual.
“Why is art more simple than a tv? Both are completely useless things you...”
– Pavel’s comment on Simplicity is hard. Let’s go shopping! [dive into mark]
Huh! This is interesting. My immediate gut response was that art inspires, especially brilliant art, or art that particularly speaks to you. But of course a television can inspire, too, and you can easily show works...
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“…Designers who win awards for edgy design they did for a friend’s...”
– Ernesto Aparicio, via blog - natalia ilyin
“The “bad” work I was referring to is process work that the public never sees. To...”
– Paula Scher, interview with Pr*tty Sh*tty
Dinner party usepaths →
bobulate:
What if we studied dinner party usepaths — “ways of doing things which are typical and which tend to work according to the people who most commonly perform the activity in question,” in Tim Boucher’s helpful definition — and redesigned our dining rooms, table cloths, and place settings accordingly?
Subtle tweaks could encourage cross-table conversation, or make it hard for the guest...
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flying with your bike... →
from classic lightweights bikes & rides, a really handy guide to airline policies for traveling with your bike, including prices.
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hooray for neighborhood pride
I just nominated my neighborhood, Mission Dolores, for Google’s Fiber Optic Trial. I knew my neighborhood was awesome, but now I’m even more excited about it. Here’s what I wrote after just a few minutes of research:
Alongside the obvious park and amazing religious architure (Catholic cathedral, Mennonite tabernacle and Lutheran church), we’ve got eight schools (including...
From Dave Wineman
NOTE: I, Timoni Grone, did not write this. Dave Wineman wrote this. This is a reblog of his post.
A conversation I have every month or so, by dwineman:
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you’re open. Website: Nope. Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in...
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read write where
Yesterday ReadWriteWeb’s post on Facebook Connect was, for a while, a top google hit for “facebook login” and as a result of this—combined with RWW’s Facebook Connect button—the site got a lot of negative comments* from confused Facebook users who thought they were looking at the new Facebook redesign.
There’s been a lot of discussion about the whys and...
“If somehow French electronic duo Daft Punk traveled back in time, they could be...”
– Dancing Plague of 1518, in Wikipedia (via imajes)
the first sex scene in scottish literature
ragbag:
the following steamy scene was written by ragbag role model, thomas urquhart way back in sixteen fitty two. like all things urquhart, it combines latin and greek neologisms, absurd euphemisms, wildly elaborate sentences, obscure allusions, and circumlocutious syntax. it also happens to be decidedly unerotic.
Thus for a while their eloquence was mute, and all they spoke was but with the...
