January 2010
91 posts
Timespace
Oh no. It’s Sunday night and it’ll be Wednesday in a few minutes.
Jan 31st
“Without me, the world is just aweso.”
– dekoenig on facebook.
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danieltenner.com — iPad: an Apple for Mom →
If I had been keeping up with Google Reader I wouldn’t have had to write my previous piece.. oh dear.
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Marco: Grown-up Computing (July 9, 2005) Regardless, the last thing I want to do is figure out why some program isn’t working or reinstall my operating system. I see these as zero-gain activities: generally, I learn nothing new, I don’t enjoy myself, I’m not being entertained or enriched, and my effort only results in maintaining the status quo. I can’t avoid some...
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The Singapore Solution — National Geographic... →
“How did a sleepy little island transform into a high-tech powerhouse in one generation? It was all in the plan.” —Mark Jacobson
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“When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said:...”
– Alan Kay (via azspot) (via marco)
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“More streamlined procedures should also come with affordable construction permit...”
– Building a stronger Haiti - The World Bank Group (via Marginal Revolution) (detailed statistic source) There are 11 procedures to get the necessary licenses/permits to build a warehouse, under the OECD average of 15, but it takes nearly 1200 days (3+ years) and about 570% of income per capita from...
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“Well, your article is the freshest on this laudable topic. I agree with your...”
– A comment on this blog post, generated by a spam bot, trying not to sound suspicious. I love it. (via marco) I have to admit they’re getting better.
Jan 26th
“I’ve been thinking about how to make money from online content since I launched...”
– Derek Powazek - What I Hope Apple Unleashes Tomorrow
Jan 26th
“I love flipping through a magazine, reading the pieces that catch my eye, then...”
– Metagames and Containers – Sleepover
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Scott Berkun: How to stop overcommunication: Spolsky’s points [about Brook’s law] are generally sound, but I believe there’s a deeper cause for overcommunication. The reason committees suck is authority is distributed across a large number of people. This makes everyone feel like everyone needs to know about everything. And worse, people fight in the backroom to obtain control over the...
Jan 25th
“While there are lots of ways to injure a back, the sit-up is an easily...”
– The man who wants to kill crunches - Macleans.ca (via A Fool’s Wisdom)
Jan 25th
“The more lemons you share, the less you eat :)”
– Seen on facebook.
Jan 25th
Subpixel considerations for AMOLED screens
marco: The alternating red/blue PenTile subpixel pattern, as described here, interested me when considering AMOLED-specific design tweaks for Instapaper’s text view. The Nexus One’s AMOLED screen displaying black text on a white background. Most significantly with OLEDs, power consumption is greatly reduced when displaying black or very dim colors, so a dark layout option is even more...
Jan 24th
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“The Redesigners often rely on emotional responses to aesthetics in justifying a...”
– A List Apart: Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign Aesthetics aren’t everything, but after the number of pointless redesigns I’ve seen.. it’s so inefficient and wasteful of time and effort to spin wheels in the mud while sliding backwards.
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I lost track of how many nightmares I had last night.
Jan 24th
“What is clear is that we are all gifted. And the tragedy on display is that this...”
– Findings: A Roman Devotional
Jan 24th
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James Patterson Inc. - NYTimes.com →
What a business empire. Patterson, Little, Brown & Co., and the Hachette Book Group.
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“Don’t you think you’re just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?”
– William Vickrey (via simko)
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bursting my bubble.
Hrrrthrrr: Ideally I'd like to not have to go through the dating phase, but not really have to do the relationship phase either. Somewhere in the middle would be great. Nothing crazy. Good conversation, fun, etc...with no weirdness, pressure, and no titles. But I'd still like the nice comforting stuff.
Good Guy Friend: Oh...so basically you want us, but with cuddling and kissing?
Hrrrthrrr: Yes! Exactly!
Good Guy Friend: Yeahhhhh that doesn't exist.
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Jan 21st
A tale of two qubits: how quantum computers work →
Excellent article by Ars Technica, not quite their usual spread but still quite well done. Warning: you’ll probably go ‘tl;dr’ when you hit page 2 of 6.
Jan 19th
Go To Hellman: Offline Book "Lending" Costs U.S.... →
Of Libraries and (Not-So-Secret) Conspiracies.
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TA-Q-BIN Trial Campaign →
Quintessentially Japanese web design.
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