February 2012
“On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so...”
– Information wants to be free - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“My favorite feature is it’s complete lack of features.”
– Droplr • Typerighter (Enough Newsletter) ————————————————————- I can’t tell you how e…
“If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to serve as a horrible...”
– Object Oriented CSS - GitHub
“We have a good relationship. We have a good partnership. We disagree...”
– A Peek Inside the Design Process at Bloomberg Businessweek - Business - The Atlantic Wire
“1 in 5 people will have a disability in their lives. Many of these are...”
– LukeW | An Event Apart: Inclusive Design
“When I started writing I thought if I proved X was a stupid thing to do people...”
– Lessons from Moneyball: don’t get left behind - (37signals)
“Money lives in the cloud; the old forms are vestigial tokens of knowledge about...”
– How Information Became a Thing, and All Things Became Information | Computers | DISCOVER Magazine
“This starts at the top. What does your company do and not do. What does your...”
– Why most UX is shite | disambiguity
“Teenagers go from “I have a feeling, I want to make a call,” to “I want to have...”
– Social Technology and the Self: Sherry Turkle talks with Dartmouth Now | Dartmouth Now
“Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And...”
– MIT Professor Calls For Facing The True Costs Of Technology | Here & Now
“The paradoxical links between the Arab Spring and the on-going problem of...”
– The Arab Spring’s Chinese roots… and future? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
“Technology has long been the hand-maiden of civil society and the public sphere,...”
– The Arab Spring’s Chinese roots… and future? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
“Firms often have big obvious misallocations of resources, where lots of folks in...”
– Overcoming Bias : Too Much Consulting?
“If he is a good designer the form he invents will penetrate the problem so...”
– Notes on the synthesis of form - Christopher Alexander - Google Books
“Although there was no difference in idea generation, giving the unconscious a...”
– How Do We Identify Good Ideas? | Wired Science | Wired.com
“Nietzsche stressed this point. As he observed in his 1878 book Human, All Too...”
– How Do We Identify Good Ideas? | Wired Science | Wired.com
January 2012
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
– Quotes by Max Lucado at allpoetry
“I have breached the Administrator of usa.gov yesterday. That was fun. I went...”
– Hackers Around the World: Australian RAT S3rver Enthusiast - Softpedia
“2. I spend a long time studying the precedents. I look at every advertisement...”
– Letters of Note: I am a lousy copywriter
“It from bit. Otherwise put, every ‘it’—every particle, every field...”
– Digital physics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Heterosexual” was actually coined in a letter at the same time as the word...”
– The invention of the heterosexual - Salon.com
“I think there is a lot of safety in categories. And there’s a hell of a lot of...”
– The invention of the heterosexual - Salon.com
“When you start operating on the principle that you indeed can divide people into...”
– The invention of the heterosexual - Salon.com
“For Banzi, this is perhaps the most important impact of Arduino: the...”
– The Making of Arduino - IEEE Spectrum
“There is indeed a common trait in the typical way creative thinkers approach...”
– The Truth: Creativity Comes From Blending Dissonant Goals Into Radical Harmony
Collaboration vs Solitude isn’t the dichotomy that seems to have been the de jour talk over the last two weeks. Any form of work takes multiple methods to get to an end. The real challenge is how ideas are communicated...
“Dusting off and turning on the machine, I pressed eject and found NBA Live 2005...”
– An Old Xbox Reveals the Secret Lives of a Good Friend
Watch(via Las Vegas Helicopter footage c.1968 Video by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown documentary - Myspace Video)
“If we take man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take him as he should be,...”
– Viktor Frankl — Why to believe in others at Farnam Street
“Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not...”
– Seth’s Blog: Who cares?
“But burners can be a pain. For maximum security, phones need to be switched as...”
– The Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers
“The leader of the crew believed he was under surveillance, and Martin made them...”
– The Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers
“Often, we’re hesitant to identify a problem out of fear we can’t...”
– Seth’s Blog: Solving problems (vs. identifying them)
“The original Glock 17, the model adopted by the Austrian army, contained only 36...”
– How The Glock Became America’s Weapon Of Choice : NPR
“No more shipping huge amounts of products around the world. No more shipping...”
– The Pirate Bay: ‘The Next Step in Copying Will Be Made From Digital Form Into Physical Form’ - Megan Garber - Technology - The Atlantic
