September 2009
106 posts
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“My wife didn’t say anything, but then she defriended me. She just wasn’t there...”
– The Facebook divorce | Salon Life
This behaviour both fascinates and puzzles me
“I’m pretty happy living in this decade,” he says. “We have things like painless...”
– “Mad Men” minus the racist, sexist parts | Salon Life
“It’s an anxious daily adventure in fucking reinventing myself. While, I’ll note,...”
– Free as in “Me” | 43 Folders
“Women are considered an “indicator species” for bike-friendly cities for several...”
– How to Get More Bicyclists on the Road: Scientific American
“Because, if you’re relieved that universal apathy provides legitimate cover for...”
– Fake Rocks, Salami Commanders, and Just Enough to Start
“This is the rope we use to hang ourselves: “it’s easy.” It’s the first thought...”
– It’s Easy
“It was the most miserable film I can think of to make,” declares its producer,...”
– On The Godfather
Is the moral of the story, creativity sucks?
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“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in...”
– Eliel Saarinen
“The blog format has devolved. Once a simple gateway to self-publishing, today...”
– Rise of the Tablog
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WatchArduino Tower Bridge on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
This project connects to the Tower Bridge twitter account and mimics the movements of the real tower bridge.
87 cool things on the web →
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“Online is amazing, but it in itself is not a solution. I think it allows you to...”
– Dave Droga of Droga5 on Change, Charity and the Consumer
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“The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any...”
– Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
“I’d like to advance a hypothesis: awesomeness is the new innovation.”
– The Awesomeness Manifesto - Umair Haque
“The popular terminology “digital natives vs. digital immigrants”...”
– Being a Digital/Analog Leader - John Maeda & Becky Bermont
“The role of craft within design has become increasingly relevant. As design...”
– Teaching Craft in a Designed World via maetl
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“Publishers of all types, from news to music, are unhappy that consumers...”
– Post-Medium Publishing via Matt Lane
“What was once before you—an exciting, mysterious future—is now behind you....”
– Synecdoche, New York (via langer)
“The Milgram study is one of the twin towers of experiments in the “situationist”...”
– The Believer - Interview with Philip Zimbardo
“Even though the Web is generally an ungodly mess, we find ourselves – as users –...”
– The Web And Rewarding Expertise
“When you look from today back to 1945, you are looking into a different cultural...”
– High-Five Nation - NYTimes.com
““No, no, that won’t do,” was the message I got. “Has to be open source....”
– Losing my religion
