April 2010
57 posts
“Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered.”
– Never heard this saying before…thanks Josh Mohrer.
“We cannot allow engineers to build products for an idealized rational user when...”
– Paradox of the Active User
This should be painted in foot-high letters on the walls of any office where any form of software is created.
“Peppa Pig is a well known fan of Sure Start children’s centres but, in the...”
– BBC: Peppa Pig withdrawn from Labour party election event
Twinkie-Winkie declined to comment on rumours that intends to vote UKIP.
“Editing is to media as a performance is to a composition: It is an act of...”
– A beautiful sentence from Liz in her article The Art of Editing: The New Old Skills for a Curated Life (via viafrank)
"Man bites dog"? Not even as interesting as "dog... →
“People associate high framerates with camcorders and cheap sitcoms, and thus...”
– Yeah, yeah - everyone links to xkcd, but today’s mouseover text actually raises a good point.
“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in...”
– Stephen Hawking
Online Privacy Is The New 'Programming A VCR' →
(via jayparkinsonmd)
Reblogged for the ace title alone.
“The great mistake so many newspapers and media outlets made was to turn on the...”
– Scott Rosenberg (via azspot)
Community management is the new..?
“Facebook is hot now, but history has shown that being a hotbed doesn’t...”
– Dave Winer
“The show’s entertainment factor appeared to be used to apologize for science and...”
– Museum 2.0: A Frustrated Reaction to a Science Center Demonstration
“David Cameron was very much on the defensive.”
– Me, offering sheer insight as my new career as a political pundit begins in Liverpool Daily Post after last night’s debate party.
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3D printing on iPhone →
I love this blog post that envisions a completely different spin on Little World Gifts - what if there were an iPhone app that allowed you to choose gifts or items, customise them and have them shipped to you in real life?
“Israel has one of the purest forms of proportional representation. All voters...”
– BBC Q&A: What is a hung parliament?
“Are you kidding me? The company has blown through $120M of VC funding over six...”
– David Heinemeier Hansson on Ning’s layoffs (via Daring Fireball)
“Remember kids, friends don’t let friends take on $150k+ of debt to enter an...”
– Doublethink, in reference to law school.
(via tomewing)
“I fully appreciate that the rights situation is a tricky one. But it would be a...”
– Continuations on Google Books
In celebration of the closing of Heathrow, Alain de Botton imagines a future without airplanes:
The wise elders would explain that inside the aircraft, passengers, who had only paid the price of a few books for the privilege, would impatiently and ungratefully shut their window blinds to the views, would sit in silence next to strangers while watching films about love and friendship - and would...
“The time may come when most tax lawyers are replaced by expert systems software,...”
– Paul Krugman
“Good design speaks. Good design tells your visitors that you care about your...”
– Dmitry Fadeyev, The Value of Good Design (via davidkaneda)
I remember reading once in Richard Branson’s autobiography that when he started running an airline, he became much more concerned with how his record shops looked. He says something like “if there are wires hanging from the...
“A decline in a narcissistic desire for self-promotion can easily lead you to be...”
– Alain de Botton (via tmblg)
“The paintings are mediocre, the figurative work even worse, but of course people...”
– The Times: C-grade art, but Hitler still draws bids for his sketches and watercolours
“The days of the portly leader who revels in their love of smoking, drinking and...”
– BBC News: The election fitness trail - exercising power or PR?
Bring back Yeltsin and Churchill…
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Hey Kids, Microsoft's Phat New Kin Phones Will... →
I love Fast Company’s headline for Microsoft’s latest attempt to stay relevant.
“This website adheres as closely as possible to the Web Accessibility Guidelines,...”
– From websites everywhere.
Does the DDA 1995 really give web content guidelines? I should imagine they need a bit of an update by now…
This actually sounds like quite a good marketing... →
The Financial Times is giving away premium online subscriptions to the mayors of places associated with top business schools.
Also a bit of a dream for a tech journalist: “MOBILE! ENTREPRENEURS! PAYWALLS!”
But I like it because it just seems to fit…business school students are more likely to be smartphone owners, and there’s an obvious link with the FT. As opposed to...
Getting it wrong.
wilwheaton:
Feb. 16, 1980: New Wave rock is a cult phenomenon that is on its way out, says AOR radio consultant Lee Abrams. ”With the exception of the Boomtown Rats, the Police and a few other bands, we’re not going to be seeing many of the New Wave circuit acts happening very big over here (in America). As a movement, we don’t expect it to have much influence.”
Patrick...
“Thirty years ago, in restaurants, your choice of wine was white or red. Today,...”
– Brema Drohan, managing director for Nespresso in the UK and Ireland, in The Guardian.
HATETRIS →
dailymeh:
A tetris that always gives you the worst piece for your position. The fact that there’s no gravity doesn’t make things as easy as they may seem. The world record seems to be 17 lines. I’ve been messing with the source (it’s javascript), trying to hijack the game’s calculation of worst piece to find the optimal sequence of moves — it calculates the best move for every piece and then...
WatchMy first play with a real-life iPad. Of course, I chose to see how the Little World Gifts iPhone app looks at double size.
“Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to...”
– Man from Future Arrested at Hadron Collider
(via notemily, amberlrhea, abbyjean, AZspot)
OUTRAGED THAT POLICIES FOR WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE...
Although it could just be alphabetical order.
