June 2009
“And it’s Kobe whose human drives and expressions of self seem more of a...”
– freedarko.com: When Stations Shift, You Find Your Own
May 2009
“They don’t even call it help anymore. They call it “customer support”. That’s...”
– Customer Support Service versus Customer Help
“Microblogging, ambient awareness and maintaining weak ties has the sideeffect of...”
– If you don’t “get” Facebook and Twitter, read this NY Times article « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog
“There are two ways to work with talent. The first is to give someone as clean a...”
– Seth’s Blog (via azspot)
“the ability of mobile devices to download apps for just about anything. making...”
– Urban Dictionary: appnoxious
Eric Rodenbeck (Stamen): Information Visualization... →
Watchmattmcinerney:
I found this video about Dieter Rams on Vimeo today. He’s a designer I’ve wanted to learn more about for quite some time now, so I really loved watching this. Also, if you click through to Victoria and Albert Museum’s vimeo profile, you’ll find quite a few more great videos.
“…our inability to predict how well people adapt to traumas leads to...”
– Perfectly Happy - The Boston Globe
“The 1-10-100 Rule states that as a product moves through the production system,...”
– » Poka-yoke Tim Minor
“The consistent failure of underdogs in professional sports to even try something...”
– Bill Simmons: A back-and-forth with best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell - ESPN
“So you get a good idea, and it just moves forward and then usually by the time...”
– Film - Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’ - A ‘Bunch of Guys on a Mission Movie’ - NYTimes.com
'Or Current Resident'
jeffgiddens:
I got a catalog from Weir’s Furniture, where I purchased a couch last summer, in the mail today. It was addressed to me, or the current resident of my apartment.
By addressing it like this, Weir’s admits a few things:
1. They don’t care who lives here, they are sending this catalog.
2. They really don’t even care if I get it, they just want to send a catalog somewhere.
3. They...
“Baseball is like tag, except the only way you can tag someone is with the ball....”
– The winners of Slate’s “Define Baseball in 150 Words” contest. - By John Dickerson - Slate Magazine (via bell)
“It makes no sense, unless you think back to that Kentucky-L.S.U. game and to...”
– Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
“Don’t get me wrong: A one-page dashboard is often an effective way to...”
– Breaking Free of the One-Page Dashboard Rule: Juice Analytics
50 great examples of infographics -... →
“But much worse than that, it means that everything you ever create appears to...”
– Hypercritical - Ars Technica
“That’s because the recession is leading people in Michigan to “mine their bodies...”
– Recession Tales: Health and Welfare Edition - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
PitchFX Viewer →
pile:
“Visualizing MLB pitchers’ velocity, pitch type, and pitch location in a single graphic”
“As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation...”
– Why text messages are limited to 160 characters | Technology | Los Angeles Times
“We love sports for the simple reason that we never know when this will happen....”
– Bill Simmons: Chicago Bulls Boston Celtics Game 6 diary - ESPN
“I love ellipses, which are also experiencing a revival online (so easy not to...”
– Stuart Jeffries on the revival of the exclamation mark | Books | The Guardian
texts from last night →
