February 2009
23 posts
“To be precise, I do love the clarity and brisk style with which Malcolm Gladwell...”
– Dean Allen (via 43folders)
January 2009
56 posts
“A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of...”
– Edward Tufte
Amazon.com: Free - Songs: MP3 Downloads →
iPhoto Buddy →
free tool for managing multiple iPhoto libraries
“Almost every paragraph on every page on every piece of paper or every screen can...”
– Writing Decisions: Saving space without losing meaning - (37signals)
“For one day, for one hour, let us take a bow as a country. Nearly 233 years...”
– Thomas L. Friedman - NYTimes.com
The Inauguration of President Barack Obama - The... →
Amazing photo essay of the biggest day.
Quantity of information
There is too much information. More than we can possibly use, and more ways to use it that we can understand. As we develop more ways to produce, broadcast and consume information, we’re also becoming more careless in doing so. How can we start working on producing and consuming better quality information, instead of just finding more ways to store and handle it?
IDEO Labs » LiveView: an iPhone app for on-screen... →
IDEO are some brilliant folks. I assumed this prototype already existed, but I guess not.
“The details are not the details. They make the design.”
– Charles Eames
WatchThis guy shot the whole video shot with new Nikon D90 at HD 720p resolution.
j O u r n e Y ~ 2oo8 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Nifty (and free) web app for recording screencasts →
from twitter.com/portlandhead
Keeping the economy moving
The airport this morning is full of vacationers, it seems, Americans wearing sandals, sweatpants and floral shirts headed for warmer climates. Lots of businessmen in button down shirts with boring black computer cases and Bluetooth dork-pieces on their ears. After a while, you notice while people cradle Macs on their lap in the airport, they tip Toshibas and HPs out on the edge of their knees,...
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One ring to rule them all? Unbundle your function
Swiss Army knives often include rulers, knife blades, scissors, screwdrivers, and toothpicks. The convenience of bundling lets you carry all of them together, but none of those components function as well as their single-purpose counterparts.
Technology today is all about convergence and consolidation. I meet people all the time who want “one app” to manage all their instant messenger...
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Pray for the City - Mattoon, Illinois →
This is my original hometown, where I was raised for the first 4 1/2 years of my life. Like the “pray for the city” banner shows, it is a small town of 18,000 people with a skyline of grain silos and water towers.
The economy is based on agriculture and livestock, and the services that go with it. Wal-Mart and the farm store provide most of the things people buy. I can’t...
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“A lot of times, when you think you’re multi-tasking, you’re just switching your...”
– Earl K. Miller, MIT neuroscience professor
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“People think entrepreneurs are risk-loving. Really what you find is successful...”
– Jeff Bezos
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Fatal Police Shooting On YouTube →
And they wonder why songs like NWA’s “F*** The Police” become anthems for entire generations.
“after decades of renovation-obsession that has simply gotten out of hand, it...”
– What Will Save the Suburbs? - Allison Arieff Blog - NYTimes.com
Secretary of the Arts Petition →
Please reblog:
Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture for centuries, The United States has never created such a position. We in the arts need this and the country needs the arts—now more than ever. Please take a moment to sign this important petition and then pass it on...
WatchI usually think CNET Tech news is pretty cheezy, but this guy Brian Tong does a great job at packing just about everything you needed to know from Macworld this week into a tight 5-minute video.
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“It’s nice to pretend to be important; but it’s more important to...”
– Dale Carnegie, 1937
Google Reader gets a cleaner interface →
Wow. All cleaned up and no good content out there. But it looks really good. I love it when companies push out dramatic improvements to their sites and I barely notice because the changes are so intuitive.
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WatchNo Shirts on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
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