December 2011
“You kind of have to be in-the-know,” Mr. Messina said. “So...”
– How the Hashtag Is Ruining the English Language
“Hashtags at their best stand in as what linguists call...”
– How the Hashtag Is Ruining the English Language
“Texting while driving is, in essence, a wake-up call to America. It illustrates...”
– Driving has lost its cool for young Americans | Grist
“I will personally burn everything I’ve made to the fucking ground if I think I...”
– Penny Arcade - an update
Timeline: A History Of Touch-Screen Technology :... →
“DVS Theatrical allows blind and visually-impaired moviegoers to listen to...”
– The Fully Accessible Harry Potter
“To quote Al Pittampalli, “why bother going to a meeting if you’re...”
– Seth’s Blog: Firemen, donuts and meetings
WatchThe Mortgage Statement Fix (by Tom Nelson)
“Tell me a story,” legendary newsman Don Hewitt used to say.”
– A Year In Books: Telling Me Something I Didn’t Know - Andrew Cohen - Entertainment - The Atlantic
“Mr [James] Crane usually offers this piece of sound advice to all new officers...”
– Freakonomics » Follow the Money
“My advice is to do what you can this second. Big plans that rely on other...”
– Miranda July, interviewed by the Guardian (via jackrusher)
“By not seeing borders, designers expand their possibilities at a time when...”
– Liz Danzico - Where The Borders Are (via bashford)
“WikiLeaks hails SOPA: The sooner all internet infrastructure is forced to flee...”
– Twitter / @wikileaks: WikiLeaks hails SOPA: The …
“Western Union moved $70 billion across borders in 2010, earning about $1 billion...”
– Bitcoin’s comeback: should Western Union be afraid?
“Bitcoin allows wealth to be transferred across international borders without the...”
– Bitcoin’s comeback: should Western Union be afraid?
“So why adopt error-hunting mindset? Simply because “it feels more...”
– This column will change your life: the language police | Life and style | The Guardian
“The unit’s big moment, McCluskey says, was understanding that violence...”
– The woman who took on Glasgow’s gangs
“When we feel we can’t escape a system, we adapt. That includes feeling...”
– Why do people defend unjust, inept, and corrupt systems?
“Many of these employees belong to the community of “workampers,” a sort of...”
– Seasonal Amazon ‘Workampers’ Flock to Remote Towns for Temporary Gigs - WSJ.com (via iamdanw)
“those who were sentenced to juvenile detention were three times more likely to...”
– Study: 1 in 3 Americans Arrested By Age 23 | Healthland | TIME.com
“Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early...”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“I was trying to figure out what a new Iron Man would look like, and I figured,...”
– Who Stole My Volcano? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dematerialisation of Supervillain Architecture. « Magical Nihilism (via iamdanw)
“However, when companies attempt to add delights to a product or service without...”
– Satisfy customers first, then delight them : How To Be A Good Product Manager: Product management tips
“When it comes to true customer engagement, ‘phygital’ sums up where marketing is...”
– Top 10 digital predictions for 2012 - iMediaConnection.com (via iamdanw)
Louis CK's Shameful Dirty Comedy
viafrank:
As Fran Lebowitz said, “If you’re going to tell the truth, you better be funny. Otherwise, they will kill you.”
“She laid out two points in working with technology: 1) “consider the technology...”
– Rhizome | Technology is Not Enough: The Story of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (via iamdanw)
“He used his own courage (the real thing can always communicate itself to others)...”
– Christopher Hitchens death: In Memoriam, my courageous sibling, by Peter Hitchens | Mail Online
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he...”
– Quote by Tolstoy
Watch(via The Making of a Chiquita Font | Drawar)
“The best thing about following sports? When the stars align and your team wins a...”
– Bill Simmons can’t believe the Lakers are no long the hot ticket in Los Angeles - Grantland
“I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are...”
– Poetry Lovers’ Page - Rudyard Kipling: “I Keep Six Honest…”
“Newbies aspire to become masters. They need guidance from experienced users to...”
– How “Master-Newbie” Altruism Keeps Users Engaged | Hugo Liu’s Taste Blog
Admit when things don't make sense. →
jratlee:
attentionindustry:
The simplest rule I know of is to just admit when something doesn’t make sense.
And yet, this seems to be the hardest rule to get people to follow, because we’re trained from an early age, to give people what they want.
Humans are irrational creatures. We want things because we don’t have them,…
“We discovered that unlike children interacting with their mothers in person or...”
– Instant messages vs. speech: hormones and why we still need to hear each other
“Daedalus was a great master of astrology, and taught the science to his son,...”
– DAEDALUS, Greek Mythology Index
“He wanted to see some fight from us, which helped us defend our work to clients...”
– What Makes a Good Creative Director? (Part 2) - DesignTAXI.com
“We’re no longer judging you by what sort of widgets your factory makes....”
– Seth’s Blog: “I am here”
