July 2010
22 posts
“The five most endangered words of the realtime internet era are: Let me think...”
– The Web’s Five Most Endangered Words (via Instapaper)
“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
– Paul Rand via
High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas ... →
Latitude 48° 14 North. Longitude 174° 26
West.
Almost midnight on the North Pacific, about 230 miles south of
Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. A heavy fog blankets the sea. There’s
nothing but the wind spinning eddies through the mist.
Out of the darkness, a rumble grows. The water begins to
vibrate. Suddenly, the prow of a massive ship splits the fog. Its
steel hull rises...
Being Genuine
My attention is a fickle sort, it flits back and forth between topics on Philosophy, Psychology, Business, Design and Programming. The idea of being genuine has seen a sort of resurgence in all of these topics recently and I don’t completely understand why it ever went away. It seems that we’ve pushed genuineness aside in lieu of higher profitability, quicker results or some other...
“The five most endangered words of the realtime internet era are: Let me think...”
– Tweetage Wasteland : The Web’s Five Most Endangered Words
“That has been the lesson for me: be careful what you let become critical to you....”
– The Top Idea in Your Mind
WatchSTEPHEN FRY: WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN WHEN I WAS 18 (by Peter Samuelson)
Hacker Monthly →
Regarding my earlier post about MagCloud and Hacker Monthly, I’ve learned that you can just download the PDFs of the magazine. Throw em into iBooks (or GoodReader) and have one less app to worry about.
Multi-server Setup for EE 2 - EE Insider →
Great tutorial on how to bend EE2’s config.php to your will. Here’s how mine ended up looking: http://gist.github.com/484873
http://hackermonthly.com/ + http://magcloud.com/ipad = Fantastic.
If you have an iPad, go download Magcloud and start reading Hacker Monthly. It’s all of the fantastic stories from Hacker News all rolled up into an easily digestible magazine.
“Without a certain comfort level with ambiguity – an uncertain outcome – we would...”
– What We Can Learn from Babies: Experimentation, Failure & Creative Genius
“Designers, like many others, started doing less and thinking more. A profession...”
– Designers: Stop Armchair Quarterbacking. Play The Damn Game | Co.
(via Frank Chimero)
“I will hazard a prediction. When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of...”
– Princeton University - 2010 Baccalaureate remarks
EPICWIN →
This will change everything.
“Inspiration is about stimulation. It encourages the development of something...”
– Brian Hoff’s Design Cubicle | Logo and Web Design - Part 2
It’s The Little Things :: Echo Enduring Blog →
From my perspective, the little things in design are all those finer details, which, though they may often go unnoticed by the most non-designers, still work to complete a design and give it that professional polish that separates the attractive from the truly beautiful.
Clue is a renewable resource - O'Reilly Radar →
June 2010
37 posts
Tony Schwartz: The Death of Depth: Less and Less... →
Your Blog is Not Your Resume (and 7 Other Tips) →
The cult of busy « Scott Berkun →
“Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.”
– The Cure for Creative Blocks? Leave Your Desk.
Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and... →
A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Web Design →
Tweetage Wasteland : Say Hello to My Little Friend →
On waiting →
Focus on Results, Not Time :: Tips :: The 99... →
The peak-end rule →
Your App’s Website Sucks →
A List Apart: Articles: Taking Advantage of HTML5... →
The Creative Method v2
View more presentations from Jason Theodor.
WatchMy afternoon with lonelysandwich. (by Jeremy Fuksa:Creative Generalist)
Jimmy Dean Quotes - Bio and Interview with Jimmy... →
How to Negotiate for a Used Car →
“Formal education is a marvelous thing. But unless it’s liberally sprinkled with...”
– Jimmy Dean Quotes - Bio and Interview with Jimmy Dean Sausage King - Esquire
“You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around...”
– Jimmy Dean Quotes - Bio and Interview with Jimmy Dean Sausage King - Esquire
No, U.S. Didn’t Just ‘Discover’ $1T Afghan... →
Not sure if anyone else saw this hoopla earlier today, but I’m happy to see another more level viewpoint.
Mind Over Mass Media →
