“But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse.” — Bruce Cockburn var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-449723-10"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @thetroublewithnormal)http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/<a href="http://www.gilttaste.com/stories/5190-the-best-lightest-pancake-recipe-ever">The Best, Lightest Pancake Recipe Ever</a>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/23587591969http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/23587591969Tue, 22 May 2012 22:45:45 -0400<p>from MacStories at <a href="http://bit.ly/KeNliP">http://bit.ly/KeNliP</a></p>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/23010007469http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/23010007469Sun, 13 May 2012 21:06:08 -0400<p>from Daring Fireball at <a href="http://es.pn/xb1DFM">http://es.pn/xb1DFM</a></p>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/22379094661http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/22379094661Fri, 04 May 2012 08:20:43 -0400<p>from Daring Fireball at <a href="http://nyr.kr/Iye8ck">http://nyr.kr/Iye8ck</a></p>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/22379094342http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/22379094342Fri, 04 May 2012 08:20:42 -0400<a href="http://daringfireball.net/2011/12/seeing_it">★ Seeing It</a>: <p>Couldn’t agree more.</p>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/22378926226http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/22378926226Fri, 04 May 2012 08:13:46 -0400<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/06/neuroscience-bob-dylan-genius-creativity">The neuroscience of Bob Dylan's genius | Music | The Guardian</a>: <p>(via <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/">Instapaper</a>)</p>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/20811885804http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/20811885804Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:34:08 -0400<p>from Seth&#8217;s Blog at <a href="http://bit.ly/HS1zXa">http://bit.ly/HS1zXa</a></p>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/20649313244http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/20649313244Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:50:53 -0400<a href="http://www.manic.com.sg/water/">Manic Merry Making Must-haves: This is Christmas. This is Water.</a>: <p>(via <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/">Instapaper</a>)</p>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/20435364503http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/20435364503Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:49:32 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m19qwodArY1qzooxpo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://theimpossiblecool.tumblr.com/post/19731554285/picasso">theimpossiblecool</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Picasso.</p> </blockquote>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/19734844298http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/19734844298Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:22:33 -0400<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36579366" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle <a href="http://bit.ly/AhaKPa">http://bit.ly/AhaKPa</a></p>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/19345854253http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/19345854253Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:40:29 -0400<a href="http://www.advicetowriters.com/interviews/2012/3/7/andy-ihnatko.html">Andy Ihnatko’s Advice to Writers</a>: <p>(via <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/">Instapaper</a>)</p>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/19116714249http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/19116714249Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:46:35 -0400<a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/03/deja-vu-all-over-again/">DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN</a>: <p>(via <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/">Instapaper</a>)</p>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/19116690808http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/19116690808Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:45:48 -0400<a href="http://www.interactioned.com/post/18891951519/a-brief-rant-about-the-ipad-3">A Brief Rant About the iPad 3</a>: <p>(via <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/">Instapaper</a>)</p>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/19095728374http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/19095728374Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:53:57 -0500“<p>There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of<br/> perception.</p> <p><br/> — Aldous Huxley</p>”http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/17767480496http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/17767480496Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:28:00 -0500<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/12/12/111212crat_atlarge_lane">I Spy</a>: <p>(via <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/">Instapaper</a>)</p>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/16956227909http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/16956227909Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:02:57 -0500<p><a href="http://www.borowitzreport.com/2012/01/25/obama-risks-alienating-republicans-by-using-facts/">Obama Risks Alienating Republicans By Using Facts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span><span>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</span></span></p> </blockquote> <p>(Via <a href="http://www.borowitzreport.com">Borowitz Report&#160;» Story</a>)</p>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/16467724812http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/16467724812Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:21:22 -0500<p><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/37signals/beMH/~3/U3TBrY2KkEM/3084-watching-apple-win-the-world">Watching Apple win the world</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span><span> </span></span></p> <p>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.</p> <br/> </blockquote> <p>(Via <a href="http://37signals.com/svn/posts">Signal vs. Noise</a>)</p>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/16465083336http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/16465083336Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:58:32 -0500“<p>Jobs didn’t just use pseudo-asceticism for marketing. He wielded purist fanaticism so as to have power in the world of nerds. This is how it came to be that Jobs is so often remembered as an ‘inventor,’ though he rarely was one. His genius was not technical, but he was a genius at manipulating technical minds. …</p> <p>My impression, based on a number of interactions I witnessed over many years, is that Jobs traded one form of obsessive, principled nerdiness against another. It was useless for a typical designer or marketing person to plead with engineers during the early years of personal computers. Engineers had airtight criteria and data, and that trumped mere opinions and intuitions. But Jobs didn’t plead. He declared even more rigid and exacting criteria.</p> <p>Jobs won the arms race of control freakery. He remains the only figure in a non-engineering role I have ever seen win this race against engineers outright.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://othmanelmoulatblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/the-most-ancient-marketing-december-2011-communications-of-the-acm/">Jaron Lanier</a> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://ayjay.tumblr.com/">ayjay</a>)</em>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/16353078054http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/16353078054Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:46:23 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly0ws0CvvI1qz7mndo1_400.png"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/18/assclowns/">The Assclownification Of The MPAA</a><br/> MG Siegler, <a href="http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/18/assclowns/">pandodaily.com</a></p> <p>SOPA and PIPA are bad. On this, basi­cal­ly the entire web agrees. But not every­one does. Take The Wall Street Jour­nal, for exam­ple. And they look like total jack­ass­es as a result. Luck­i­ly for them, it’s impos­si­ble to look as bad as the…</p> </blockquote>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/16093539692http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/16093539692Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:12:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly0t09WrO01qz7mndo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/17/confessions-of-a-publisher-were-in-amazons-sights-and-theyre-going-to-kill-us/">Confessions of a Publisher: “We’re in Amazon’s Sights and They’re Going to Kill Us”</a><br/> Sarah Lacy, <a href="http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/17/confessions-of-a-publisher-were-in-amazons-sights-and-theyre-going-to-kill-us/">pandodaily.com</a></p> <p>When you see Snoo­ki’s book on the New York Times Best Sell­er List, you know pub­lish­ing is in trou­ble.</p><p>You can blame read­ers and say pub­lish­ing is just giv­ing the pub­lic what they want. But that’s only half the prob­lem.</p><p>The rest is a…</p> </blockquote>http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/16088536062http://www.thetroublewithnormal.com/post/16088536062Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:50:33 -0500