July 2011
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“The House of Fantasy is built of stone and wood and furnished in High Medieval....”
– George R. R. Martin’s “The Furniture Rule”, explaining the differences and similarities between the fields of weird fiction in Dreamsongs, via wikiquote
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“You will have a marvelous journey. And, young as you are, what matter if it...”
– Nosferatu script by Henrik Galeen
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“Brian Christian: One of the strange takeaways of thinking this much about...”
– From Radiolab’s Talking to Machines
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“Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy...”
– Jonathan Franzen,Technology Provides an Alternative to Love.
“He tells the Kenyon 21-year-olds, who were likely texting throughout the...”
– Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings? — Daily Intel
“I do not enjoy Facebook — I find it cloying and impossible — but I am there...”
– Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings? — Daily Intel. This is exactly how I feel about Facebook.
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“If any of the characters in McDonaldland want to teach the Hamburglar a lesson,...”
– Ted Wilson Reviews The World #95 - The Rumpus.net
• The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped -... →
Capacitive buttons make for a worse experience in all cases, even if they make the phone look sleeker. The capacitive button cult must be stopped.
“For a telematics system to be effective, it has to be fully integrated with all...”
– The Cooper Journal: Will Ford learn that software isn’t manufactured?
“No matter what a design studio promises, it’s very likely that in its first...”
– Subtraction.com: The End of Client Services
“Jennifer Mueller, assistant professor of management at Wharton and lead author...”
– Why Creative People Are Rarely Seen as Leaders, and What To Do About It
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“We’ve now funded so many different types of founders that we have enough data to...”
– You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss
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“As a technical woman, this is your introduction and the first thing you have to...”
– Rebecca Cox on What is it like to be a woman working in the tech industry? - Quora
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“CBR News: Nick, of all the places you could have started “Morning...”
– COMMENTARY TRACK: “Morning Glories” #1 - Comic Book Resources
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“However, while surfers may be more trusting, online shoppers are 30% less loyal...”
– Prettier websites make for more trusting web surfers, study finds. (via putorti)
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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty →
‘An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is an area of countryside considered to have significant landscape value in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, that has been specially designated by the Countryside Agency (now Natural England) on behalf of the United Kingdom government.’
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Well...shit.
Herb: Is there no "ending" to "Infinite [Jest]" because there couldn't be? Or did you just get tired of writing it?
dfw: Herb -- there is an ending as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an "end" can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occurred to you, then the book's failed for you.
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I get it now. Poor people are annoyed by their...
The central tension for the Tea Party grass roots isn’t between the Big Brother state and the freedom-loving individual, or between inefficient government spending and effective free markets. Instead, Ms. Skocpol and her fellow investigators argue that “Tea Partiers judge entitlement programs not in terms of abstract free-market orthodoxy, but according to the perceived deservingness of...
“Rowling never says, but that one little gap has given rise to so much fan...”
– See pictures of what, exactly, Time Magazine? How Harry Potter Became the Boy Who Lived Forever — Printout
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Here Be Cartographers: Reading the Fantasy Map →
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“Have the UX team responsible for writing the PRDs. Product Managers should write...”
– Glen Lipka answering How do you make sure user experience is “in the room” when management talks about product strategy?, on Quora
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“Have you ever caught yourself saying something like, “I just don’t understand...”
– Think Like Reality - Less Wrong
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“Modern cognitive psychology views decision-making as a search for alternatives. ...”
– The Third Alternative - Less Wrong
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“Back in the old days, saying the local religion “could not be proven” would have...”
– Religion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable - Less Wrong
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Designing The Cover →
‘Read about the agonizing yet glorious creative process for creating the cover’ of Information is beautiful.
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“This pursuit [gardening] will in the end be cheapened, my dear Lipsius, because...”
– Carolus Clusius, one heck of a horticultural snob, quoted in Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age by Anne Goldgar.
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“But now I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take...”
– Brian Eno, in The Revenge of the Intuitive, Wired 7.01
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“From a human factors point of view, when you’re designing a product,...”
– Susan Weinschenk, in 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People