“I made it [Facebook] blue because I’m colorblind.” — Facebook Logo
According to key and mouse click tracking software, my left mouse button was clicked an average of 38 times per minute (roughly 2,282 cph or one click every two seconds) in the final hour of Diablo 3. My mouse trajectory within the hour was 334m (5.57m per minute). With Diablo 3 abilities mapped to keyboard presses – and the final hour involving a slew of enemy encounters – it’s no surprise I hit 1,632 keys in that time (27.2 per minute). (via Exploring the patterns of Diablo 3 | Joystiq)
“Headphones are the new wall.” — Ray Udeshi cited by John Tierney in From Cubicles, Cry for Quiet Pierces Office Buzz via NYTimes.com, discussing how office workers deal with the increasing noise in open space offices. (via stoweboyd)
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An atlas for the blind circa 1837. Without a drop of ink in the book, the text and maps were embossed on heavy paper.
(via The 86-Year-Old Firm that Designs Your In-Flight Experience | Design Decoded)
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BASEBALL PITCHING TRAINING AID (via Eephus League Magazine)
Physics student Andrew Oriani diagrams patron movement at the Cleveland Museum of Art to better understand how visitors walk through a museum.
“participants who had been primed for guilt both liked the candy more and said they would be willing to pay more for it than those primed with neutral words. Guilt also made the initial pleasurable reaction last longer—the guilt-primed participants remembered liking the candies more than neutral-primed participants.” — The Best Type of Pleasure | Farnam Street
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The project taught me the value of thingness: of completing something so that it’s an artefact other people can recognise and identify. The box-with-a-lid is a huge part of that. It stops it being a bunch of wires, something I explain as “an Arduino doing X”, and it becomes an Intervalometer. It becomes a thing.
And finishing is hard. You think software, or electronics is hard? Making a box chewed me up and spat me out. It’s not too hard to make the ragged, ugly holes I did, but gosh, I’d love the precision and experience to not have scratches from skittering milling bits, or the ragged holes around the LCD. Not to mention the entire rebuild of the project necessary to get it small enough to fit into aforementioned box.
” — Infovore » Finishing the Intervalometer: the value of finishing, and making what’s in your head (via iamdanw)(via iamdanw)
“The span of twelve years between ‘Steamboat Willie’, the first Mickey with sound, and ‘Fantasia’, is the bridge between primitive and modern animated pictures. No genius built this bridge. It was built by hard work and enthusiasm, integrity of purpose, a devotion to our medium, confidence in its future, and, above all, by a steady day-by-day growth in which we all simply studied our trade and learned.” — Walt Disney remembers his studio’s “Growing Pains” (via iamdanw)
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“If you find something original check to see where it was stolen from.” — Matt Thomas (via austinkleon)
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Cheers to Mark Davis at Autodesk for his whiteboard work.