February 2012
2 posts
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the...”
I Spy →
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January 2012
13 posts
Obama Risks Alienating Republicans By Using Facts
Obama Risks Alienating Republicans By Using Facts:
Mr. Obama stirred controversy throughout the speech with his relentless references to facts, data, and things that have actually happened, all long considered the third rail of American politics
(Via Borowitz Report » Story)
Watching Apple win the world
Watching Apple win the world:
No other company has inspired me more when it comes to marketing, design, focus, and even capitalism than Apple. Make the best damn product out there, charge a profitable price, and win the world.
(Via Signal vs. Noise)
“Jobs didn’t just use pseudo-asceticism for marketing. He wielded purist...”
– Jaron Lanier (via ayjay)
Stop Sopa or the web really will go dark | Dan...
Stop Sopa or the web really will go dark | Dan Gillmor:
These “fixes” are designed to wrest control of these tools from the masses and recentralize what has promised to be the most open means of communication and collaboration ever invented.
(Via Guardian Unlimited Technology)
Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose...
Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing - Boing Boing:
It’s tempting to stop the story here and conclude that the problem is that lawmakers are either clueless or evil, or possibly evilly clueless. This is not a very satisfying place to go, because it’s fundamentally a counsel of despair; it suggests that our problems cannot be solved for so long as stupidity and...
Drewbot • "Content" Creep
Drewbot • “Content” Creep:
Publishers buy into these two assumptions because “content” allows them to easily measure and analyze their output. Messy qualitative measures are hidden so output fits neatly within Excel cells. This is the allure of “content”: it allows comforting, structured data which simplifies the complexity of a large business and makes decisions less...
Me: Here are the photographs from the shoot...
Me: Here are the photographs from the shoot yesterday Client: Nice shots - I like this one from…:
Me: Here are the photographs from the shoot yesterday
Client: Nice shots - I like this one from behind the man. Can you just flip the image so we can see his face and not the back of his head?
Me: You want me to turn him around in the photograph so you can see his face?
Client: Yes - and...
CES Day 2: the day the tablets took over - Chicago...
CES Day 2: the day the tablets took over - Chicago Sun-Times: “What lessons did tablet manufacturers learn from the beatings they received in 2010 and 2011? Mostly that they can’t compete with Apple by selling a slightly-inferior tablet for the same price as the iPad.
“Well, then let’s sell a vastly inferior tablet for lots less,” many companies concluded, and the air around the CES floor...
Copycats - Matt Gemmell
Copycats - Matt Gemmell:
(Via mattgemmell.com)
★ Seeing It
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December 2011
15 posts
Cult Of Mac’s Best Of 2011 Awards
from Cult of Mac at http://bit.ly/t3vH1F
The Dumbest Idea in the World: Maximizing...
from Daring Fireball at http://onforb.es/t20vEd
Ink and paper
from kottke.org at http://bit.ly/vQvh0b
The Windows Phone Problem in Three Words: Way Too...
from Daring Fireball at http://bit.ly/uy9szV
Hitting on more cylinders
from Boston.com — New England Patriots news at http://bit.ly/gsMJzK
Polish Cold War Neon
from Retronaut at http://bit.ly/t60NVG
Acting Dead, Trading Up and Leaving the Middle...
from ribbonfarm at http://bit.ly/v74ONb
Our gadgets and relationships: the joy and the...
from The Verge - All Posts at http://bit.ly/snp5GZ
PHP is not an acceptable COBOL
from Coyote Tracks at http://bit.ly/u7E4Mb
Unremembered Celebrity Couples
from Retronaut at http://bit.ly/vmvZo4
5 Awesome Things You Can Do With Alfred On Your...
from Cult of Mac at http://bit.ly/v4t5e0
A Clever Use of Smart Collections
from Lightroom Secrets at http://bit.ly/rFvHut
How wives should undress in front of their...
from How to be a Retronaut at http://bit.ly/vKWzid
The big bang theory of computing
from asymco at http://bit.ly/suwKzW
November 2011
87 posts
Steve Jobs Was Right, Android Logs Everything...
from Cult of Mac at http://bit.ly/rzUg7Q
David Foster Wallace’s Syllabus
from Daring Fireball at http://slate.me/u5PHqj
∞ The illusion of information choice
from The Loop at http://bit.ly/u2Ab8G
→ Black Friday
from Marco.org at http://bit.ly/vwIF4F
Surprise and Delight
from me & her at http://bit.ly/sVWTif
Bach: Keyboard Concertos, Nick Van Bloss;...
from Music: Music + Album reviews | guardian.co.uk at http://bit.ly/sjqwQv
When Google comes calling...
from Seth’s Blog at http://bit.ly/w1lMOm
The Problem with Data Driven Decisions
from The Intercom Blog at http://bit.ly/tYBnIV
The Bifurcation of Reading on the Web
from Daring Fireball at http://bit.ly/skK9jr
Hugo – review
from Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk at http://bit.ly/vSIxpF
★ Fun With Numbers
from Daring Fireball at http://bit.ly/teMjwP
Microsoft Says Windows Phones Have Had Siri-Like...
from Daring Fireball at http://bit.ly/s0pBsk
Features and Intent
from TightWind at http://bit.ly/rT3L5M
Building the Apple Stores
from The Loop at http://bit.ly/t8aPPB
Business Vs. Personal
from Grantland: Home Page at http://es.pn/vx0eD9
∞ Apple and market subversion
from The Loop at http://bit.ly/t8sARE
Bill Simmons attempts to decipher the motivation...
from ESPN Feed: bill simmons at http://es.pn/vx0eD9
Send in the Republican clowns
from kottke.org at http://bit.ly/vBky44
Every Good Product Is Alike, Every Bad Product Is...
from Technology : The Atlantic at http://bit.ly/uxFznR
JoT 1617: Kindle Fire meets iPad.
from The Joy of Tech at http://bit.ly/vCEtxz