February 2012
Scale of the Universe 2012 →
A nice slider based info-graphic on the scale of things. The illustrations are hokey but the concept is good.
Steven Heller, Debbie Millman and Alice Twemlow on... →
Facebook Users Ask, ‘Where's Our Cut?’ →
Indeed. But maybe $150-$200 a year for regular users. Lurkers, nothing. Once a month posters: $50.
Apple’s iPhone Business Alone Is Now Bigger Than... →
Barack Obama’s record on jobs →
Economists warned in 2008 and 2009, job recovery would be slow if like other recessions of similar nature and size.
The Death of the Cyberflâneur →
“Through clever partnerships with companies like Spotify and Netflix, Facebook will create powerful (but latent) incentives that would make users eagerly embrace the tyranny of the “social,” to the point where pursuing any of those activities on their own would become impossible.”
This makes me want to leave FB even more…
Facebook Is Using You →
But not only FB. Also Google and many, many others.
Tumblr?
A New York Bridge Set for Demolition Could Become... →
A really, really stupid idea. (That is: the Tappan Zee would make a horrible park!)
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Know when to actually recharge your mouse
“MightyMonitor 5 is a dashboard widget for Mac OS X that shows you the battery status of Apple Bluetooth wireless devices, including the Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, and brushed aluminum wireless keyboard. The widget changes color to warn of low batteries - with a low status warning at less than 25% remaining, and alert with less than 10% remaining.”
In the latest version, it can monitor...
Unpaid Intern Sues Harper’s Bazaar for Minimum... →
“Xuedan Wang, 28, was an intern at the magazine’s accessories department from August to December last year, where she typically worked at least 40 hours a week, and sometimes as much as 55 hours, without pay, according to her lawsuit filed on Wednesday.
“According to information for prospective interns published on the Hearst careers website, the company does not pay its interns but instead...
For Some, Merely Being Ranked Can Diminish IQ →
Harvard Business Review
Caps lock has to go, and other proposals for... →
Slate Magazine
Making It (Healthcare Reform) Understandable →
Lindsay Kinkade’s blog for her Wintersession course at RISD.
Kern And Burn →
A Publication About Design Entrepreneurship
Joseph Stiglitz: “A Banking System is Supposed to... →
Is The US In A Phase Change To The Creative... →
“We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value,” says Roger Martin, Dean of Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, in wonderful his book, Fixing the Game (2011). “The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder...
January 2012
“Hiding complexity is the worst thing you can do. You gotta just not have it.”
– Guy English
Less than perfect apps →
Interesting Macworld Live panel talk about good apps with flaws. I agree with Dave Wiskus about Photoshop being too much. It needs to be broken up. It should have been broken up 10 years ago!
Panel includes Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, Black Pixel’s Dave Wiskus, Aged and Distilled’s Guy English, Macworld senior contributor Glenn Fleishman, and Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba.
Save Freehand! →
I miss it!
Yale University School of Art: Home →
Is it just me or, is this web page not working?
The Future Of Screen Typography Is In Your Hands →
“We do more reading on the screen today than we did even a year ago. If we are ever to have a golden age of reading on the screen, this might be the start of it.
Tablets, Nooks and Kindles make buying a book or magazine for the screen almost unavoidable. With smartphones, we carry our reading material with us and enjoy instant Web access, enabling the reading experience to flow smoothly from one...
30 years of failure: the username/password... →
“Then there’s our educational system, often criticized as inadequate to global...”
– Mark Mills and Julio Ottino: The Coming Tech-led Boom
Color — Method of Action →
Very interesting. Give it a shot. Color freaks should try for sure.
“Broken gets Fixed. Shoddy lasts forever.”
– Jack Moffet
Quotes on Design
“Politicians see the world as blocs of voters living in specific geographies —...”
– Thomas Friedman
Made in the World - NYTimes.com
