October 2009
“The music web space is dear to me, so whenever I see something new, I want to...”
– Fascinated
“I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
– Isaac Newton after losing £20,000 in the South Sea Bubble (via chrbutler)
“One important point about the difference between problems and dilemmas: with...”
– Futures Thinking: Asking the Question | Open The Future | Fast Company
“…while it may be simple to ask a question, asking the right question is...”
– Futures Thinking: Asking the Question | Open The Future | Fast Company
“You know who thinks the iPhone 3GS stinks? Steve Jobs. No one is working harder...”
– Daring Fireball (via superamit)
“As the behavioral economists see it, compliance will depend not only on the...”
– If you build a coverage mandate, will they come? - washingtonpost.com
“participants possessing high levels of self-control related to food choices (as...”
– See Salad, Eat Fries: When Healthy Menus Backfire - Duke’s Fuqua School of Business
“Asking the Question” is the first step in a formal futures thinking project. At...”
– Jamais Cascio (via chrbutler)
“The results of the Dallas system are clear: in the past five years, the Dallas...”
– Running in the Shadows - For Runaways on the Street, Sex Buys Survival - Series - NYTimes.com
“Snobbery is a global phenomenon. A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you...”
– Alain de Botton (via chrbutler)
“To see ourselves as rational beings is the epitome of irrationality.”
– psychobabble: Economists are Irrational: What are free-market economists thinking? (Psychology Today) (via brocatus)
UX Exchange - Q&A site for user experience... →
“Faced with a budget crunch and the possible closing of some state parks,...”
– Switching the default rule to save state parks in Washington « Nudge blog
“Things don’t always run smoothly. Bobby Fitzgerald, a restaurateur who has...”
– Skype and Job Interviews: Webcam Meetings on the Rise - TIME
“This is a crucial point. Much of the attention in the football world, in the...”
– Football, dogfighting, and brain damage : The New Yorker
“The psychologist Ellen Langer once had subjects engage in a betting game against...”
– The psychology of overconfidence : The New Yorker
“A recent statistical analysis by Robert T. Hodgson, published in the Journal of...”
– The Case Against Awards | The New Republic
“Only three years ago, foreclosure was rarely a factor in how people became...”
– Victims of Foreclosure Check In to Shelters - NYTimes.com
“A societal preference for boys here has become an unlikely source of power for...”
– The Unintended Consequence of “Son Preference” - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
“You can feel it can’t you, after all these years of brands pursuing branded...”
– russell davies: just sell it (via iamdanw)
“Sometimes it takes 15 minutes or a half hour or an hour or more to really get in...”
– Getting in too-much touch (interruption is not collaboration) - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
“For every setting you have at least 2 conditions (and often times many more than...”
– Getting Real: The problem with preferences, interface design, and the customer experience - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
“Dungeons and Dragons Online is enjoying a second life in terms of player count...”
– Dungeons and Dragons Online: behold the power of free - Ars Technica
“The Self Storage Association, a nonprofit trade group, estimates that since the...”
– The Self-Storage Self - Storing All the Stuff We Accumulate - NYTimes.com
“Player A: 42 games, 151 at-bats, 40 hits, 7 homers, 19 rbi, .265 batting
Player...”
– Jockbeat: Who’s the Real ‘Mr. October’? - New York News - Runnin’ Scared
“Theaters will allow children to watch film clips of their own selection,...”
– Disney Plans Extensive Overhaul of Mall Stores (via iamdanw)
“Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not...”
– Derek Powazek in the best SEO rant I’ve ever seen. (via davidkaneda)
“Restaurants, normally big buyers of breast meat, slashed orders as millions of...”
– ‘Boneless’ Wings, the Cheaper Bite - NYTimes.com
Lufthansa MySkyStatus™ →
While you’re in the air, MySkyStatus sends altitude, location, departure and arrival updates automatically to your Facebook and Twitter pages.
“Which just proves that on Twitter, unlike in the real world, the people who sell...”
– Want better service? Just complain on Twitter
“According to Pitchford, developers who tweak their game’s Achievements to...”
– Pitchford: Easy Achievements boost sales by up to 40,000 units
“It’s time to ask: have the costs of innovation exceeded the benefits?
A...”
– The Awesomeness Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
Wayne Winston: Mark Cuban's Stats Expert Isn't... →
Wayne Winston is a professor at Indiana University and for the last nine years he has been Mark Cuban’s stat guru for the Dallas Mavericks.
David Sherwin: The First Law of Design Dynamics →
chrbutler:
Much like the First Law of Thermodynamics, which expresses the conservation of energy between various states, my imagined First Law of Design Dynamics states: “We are unsolvable problems.”
Or, to put it another way: Problems persist, and we are an expression of them.
Great post by David Sherwin. He really hit on a tension of design that I’m often reminded of- that as long as we...
“This is a brilliant ad campaign from Verizon. The “there’s a map for that”...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: New Verizon TV Commercial Slags AT&T’s Network
