January 2012
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“If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes...”
– Albert Einstein
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A Clean, Minimal Bing
Google’s Search+ and GKBO antics have really rubbed me the wrong way over the last couple of days. So in retaliation, I’ve switched my default search engine to Bing.
It hasn’t been a frictionless switch. The quality of image results for certain search terms is mediocre. The results pages are cluttered, squished and chock full of distractions. To help the transition along, I...
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WatchThis Is by Alex Silver and Jon Tai
4½ years later, Cornell is but a distant, fond memory — a line on a resumé and buried photos on Facebook — and yet this video fills me with breathtaking nostalgia. Every fast-forwarded moment: so vivid, so tangible, so frustratingly ephemeral. I miss the laughs, lessons and in-betweens, and I’m grateful for them.
So long, Cornell, and thanks for all the...
December 2011
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November 2011
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Adobe kills off (mobile) Flash →
(Source: shirt.woot)
The writing was on the wall long before Adobe shifted its interactive focus to HTML5/CSS3, offering up resources like Wallaby, Edge, the expressive web and so on. Steve Jobs was prescient—and perhaps instrumental in helping Adobe realign themselves—in offering his insight into the problem:
Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful...
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October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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“[…] you need to plan for that which cannot be planned. When you are at...”
– Horace Dediu, on HP’s decade-long departure
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Doing More With Less: Small Space Inspiration
As Americans in a capitalist economy, we typically place a premium on more. More time, more money, more space, more stuff. But more isn’t always better. The more stuff you have, the more encumbered you become. The more money you have, the more problems you invariably encounter.
There’s something inspiring and inherently appreciable about doing more with less. A technologist...
July 2011
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June 2011
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“I don’t think it’s good that Apple’s perceived as different. I...”
– Steve Jobs, WWDC ‘97
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May 2011
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April 2011
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Missing e - the browser extension for Tumblr →
A fine collection of Tumblr-enhancing scripts by Jeremy Cutler, my favorite of which is the inline image uploading for all post types. Surprisingly — and thankfully — the only thing it doesn’t do is replace all Dashboard instances of “Tumblr” with “Tumbler”.
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WatchEastpak Spak (Director’s Cut) by We Are From L.A.
About as compelling (and disturbing) as you’d imagine a human tetris game to be.
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“Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely...”
– Bertrand Russell
March 2011
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A parable germane to digital "piracy"
(The following story, “Ooka and the Stolen Smell” is excerpted from I.G. Edmonds’ “Case of the Marble Monster and Other Stories”.)
Now it so happened in the days of old Yedo, as Tokyo was once called, that the storytellers told marvelous tales of the wit and wisdom of His Honorable Honor, Ooka Tadasuke.
This famous judge never refused to hear a complaint, even if it seemed strange or...
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finnsblog4 asked: Do you know what time it is?
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Digital Subscription Prices Visualized (aka The... →
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WatchWhiskey, natural disaster, classical music: they’re all celebrated in this Jameson Whiskey spot by TBWA\Chiat\Day. I don’t think flood and fire can ever again be unaccompanied by Chopin’s “Waltz no. 19 in A minor”.
February 2011
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