March 2010
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Mom: Hey, when are you having kids?
Me: What? Why?
Mom: You need to have a plan! When a machine gets too old they don’t bear good fruit.
Me: Mom, machines don’t bear fruit.
Mom: And make sure you have smart kids. If they’re dumb, I’ll put them in recycling bin.
Me: …what are they going to recycle as?
Mom: I don’t know. Homeless.
The Opposite of Fitts' Law →
With examples from Gmail’s interface. I can’t count the number of times I’ve accidentally clicked “Report Spam.”
“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.”
– Henry Ford
Adaptation →
As a society, it’s crucial that we must be prepared at every step of the way for the introduction of the New Thing by all the New Things of the past. It’s obvious to state that television could not have happened without radio, but it’s always the perfect model for our capacity for adapting to technological change. The iPad could not have existed without the iPhone having been in our hands for...
Mike Matas →
From the Department of We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Flash.
HF&J: Four Techniques for Combining Fonts →
Nokia: Design by Community →
Hilariously misguided.
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Vampire Weekend – Run
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Internet 'in running' for Nobel Peace Prize →
Finally getting some of the recognition it deserves.
The Full Story of How Facebook Was Founded →
Continuing on the theme of “ideas are cheap.”
I don’t know how much of this article is factual vs. anecdotal, although it would not surprise me at all if Mark Zuckerberg is in fact as big of a dick as it makes him out to be. Not that there’s anything wrong with that; some of the most successful entrepreneurs in history have been colossal assholes—including the CEO of my...
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Joanna Newsom – Does Not Suffice
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Daft Punk vs. Gorillaz – 19-2000 Funk
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Edward Tufte Presidential Appointment →
Edward Tufte:
I will be serving on the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel. This Panel advises The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, whose job is to track and explain $787 billion in recovery stimulus funds […] I’m doing this because I like accountability and transparency, and I believe in public service. And it is the complete opposite of everything else I do. Maybe...
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Gorillaz – On Melancholy Hill
Books in the Age of the iPad →
An article about the iPad that, incidentally, perfectly articulates the idea behind BrokenLogic:
Formless Content is unaware of the container. Definite Content embraces the container as a canvas.
I’d like to think it’s more than a coincidence that the HTML ID I chose for my content container was #canvas.
“I like it when competitors copy me because it means they aren’t about to...”
– Wil Shipley
10^27 = HELLA BIG →
Austin Sendek, a physics student at UC Davis, wants the number of 10 to the 27th power — a trillion trillions — to officially become “hella” big.
Along the lines of using the “kilo” prefix for kilometers or “giga” for gigabyte, Sendek is petitioning the International System of Units (SI) to use the term “hella” to describe really,...
Tumblr Stole My Domain At The Behest of A... →
I’ve run pitchfork.tumblr.com for almost a year now. I had several posts up and I followed 28 people with the account. All my posts are now gone and my address has been changed to pitchfork1.tumblr.com. Where my blog once stood now stands the official Tumblr for Pitchfork…
This is pretty fucked.
On the plus side, though, at least he still owns one of the greatest Tumblr usernames ever....