December 2010
“It’s hard to fit a Top 10 list on a tweet, but here goes: my top 10...”
– @ConanOBrian tweet
“Your constant hustling to rock the internet and cash out makes you incredibly...”
– Tweet from Hoefler+Frere-Jones
“If I had his nuts in a steel trap I would shut out all human succor and watch...”
– Mark Twain on James W. Paige, inventor of a typesetting machine that Twain lost a $170,000 investment on.
The Economist writes about Matthew Carter →
Rehash but, well, it is the Economist.
Suddenly feeling sick before heading out in the... →
“By measuring the number of proximity events in a typical January flu-season day, the Stanford team created a detailed map of the school’s “human contact network”—essentially a physical human social network for infectious disease transmission. The number of close proximity interactions (CPIs) reached an astonishing 762,868 meetings among just 788 people. That means in the...
Adobe Digital Publishing Suite →
Geez, I hope it is a free upgrade from CS5…
Color E-Readers Open Way for Picture Books →
Duh…
“People — especially creative people — need long stretches of uninterrupted time...”
– Jason Fried
WatchJason Fried: Why work doesn’t happen at work
So true!
Major milestone: The Internet is now as popular as... →
“…TV watching isn’t dying off, rather Internet use is catching up. Both activities now stand at an average 13 hours per week, with Internet use increasing 121% in five years. Radio and reading newspapers and magazines are the casualties.”
The first nationwide count of parking spaces... →
“Civil engineers at the University of California, Berkeley recently published the first comprehensive estimate of parking spaces in America and found that the energy use and materials associated with creating hundreds of millions of parking spaces has a significant environmental impact.
…if there are 250 million cars in the country, obviously there must be at least that many spaces for people to...
WatchComedy Central has a new identity and it is GREAT!
Sagmeister Inc. →
Sagmeister’s new web site is a live web cam mounted on the ceiling of his office. The buttons to go to the main sections are vinyl floor lettering.
In the NEWS section is a video of the button making.
David Hockney does sketches on his iPad and iPhone →
The à la Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent in Paris puts it up on hundreds of iPads and iphones. Watch the video. Brief.
TEDWomen →
Dec. 7-8, 2010
Washington, DC
Educator Resource Center for School Teachers →
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has a web site with resources and information for school teachers about design.
“Are you looking for new ideas and methods to engage your students? Design makes any subject immediately relevant to students by directly relating to their real-life experience. How can architecture, environment, product, graphic, and media design enhance the teaching of any...
Garry Gross Dog Photography of New York →
Garry Gross, the photographer famous for his pictures of Brook Shields as a 10 year old girl in a bathtub (taken shortly before she became famous) has died.
After a career in fashion photography, he became a dog trainer but continued to take dog portraits. Some of them are terrific, like his portraits of old dogs.
This links to his portraits of older dogs. Great stuff. Click on the middle...
Who’s reading your Twitter DMs? →
I went to settings in Twitter and under the connections tab, revoked all access.
Mac 101: Keep Your Mac Running with Regular... →
All great advice especially booting from the install disk and running Repair Disk every month or so.
Report calls for radical redesign of cities to... →
“If we go on with business as usual, what happens is unmanageable levels of congestion because personal car ownership has proliferated,” she said. “Cities could be a pretty nasty place to live for the two-thirds of the global population in the next 30 years if we don’t act on things like climate change mitigation and adaptation, smarter use of resources and sorting out big...
Are good-looking people more employable? Findings... →
“…attractive and plain women alike are better off omitting their photograph from a resume since it decreases their chances of a callback by 20 to 30 percent”
(If a photo is attached to an application) “… an attractive male needs to send on average five CVs in order to obtain one response, whereas a plain-looking male needs to send 11 for a single response”
Dangerous levels of lead found in used consumer... →
… the trend of home decorating with salvage means that many middle and upper-middle class consumers are buying items in second-hand stores for the salvage value, or for an antique look. However, some of these products could be dangerous. “
… it is possible that Americans are bringing the lead poisoning hazards of past generations back into their homes,” Sharmer said. “It is very...
