January 2011
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WatchFrank Chimero - The Shape of Design
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Kickstarter - The Shape of Design →
Frank Chimero wants to write a book on design. And I want to read it.
If you watch the video, I hope you will want to, as well.
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“It’s an offensively brilliant idea. Barcode Kanojo’s free iPhone app will scan...”
– Sexy Beans | Five Players (via iamdanw)
This is not a joke. You can scan a package of index cards, and if no-one has scanned that UPC first, you get to name a submissive anime girl, who will love you forever. Until some other obsessive nerd gives her more money.
This is the first time a spime...
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Would-Be Suicide Bomber Killed by Unexpected SMS... →
If true, the SMS might be the only time that a wireless carrier’s SMS message has ever been useful.
Three ways to ruin your business →
Recruit just one mediocre person to your senior team and keep them there.
Change your mind on a weekly basis.
Abdicate running the business to metrics.
Print Stuff →
You are looking at my printer sending out stuff picked by some people on the internet. You can do that too, just fill in the form and click «Print». This stuff I’m collecting will eventually become a book.
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Ben Bashford - Notebook of Things: Emoticomp →
bashford:
I really think we should be working on developing new tools for doing this. One idea I’ve had is system/object personas. Interaction designers are used to using personas (research based user archetypes) to describe the types of people that will use the thing they’re designing - their background, their needs and the like but I’m not sure if we’ve ever really explored the use of...
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“Well, they have amongst many, thousands, perhaps millions of artefacts,...”
– Bletchley Park and History Hackday Request | Amplified
(via iamdanw)
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“Think of it from Apple’s point of view: people probably attempt “repairs” on...”
– Marco.org - iFixit: Apple’s Diabolical Plan to Screw Your iPhone
I suspect that it’s hard for people to realize the sheer scale of retail, one to one technical support that Apple maintains. I don’t like the anti-tamper screws and moisture sensors built into their hardware, but...
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WatchTom Waits - Potter’s Field
Tom Waits serenades New York Harbor.
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“Remember, you are sitting in a room full of nerds who — just for intellectual...”
– Rands In Repose: Managing Nerds
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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple,...”
– Charles Mingus (via rcallewaert)
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FluidDB » Blog Archive » Exploring FluidDB with... →
This post leads you from signing up to FluidDB to executing commands and queries using fluiddb.py. It assumes you’re already familiar with the concepts behind FluidDB and that you’re a developer looking to experiment with the API.
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“HiJack is a hardware/software platform for creating cubic-inch sensor...”
– projects :: hijack (via iamdanw)
Shades of Tellart’s 1/8-in jack hack from 2008. Fantastic.
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Inviting Toronto to think like the web « Jon Udell →
I want to suggest that in cities that think like the web, citizens understand and apply “fourth R” principles. They know something about how data can be structured for humans to read versus for computers to process. They recognize that pub/sub syndication is a good way to merge their own data into the public ecosystem. They take responsibility for publishing their own data in useful ways, and...
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FluidDB » Blog Archive » Introducing the FluidDB... →
So, what if you’re a non-programmer and not using an application and you just want to have a look around inside FluidDB? Pier-Andre Parent has written the FluidDB Explorer – a web-based “explorer” GUI. If you’re not a developer, this is probably your best way of starting to interact with FluidDB without having to get into all the nitty-gritty details of the API. It’s like the file-system...
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"It doesn't have a major theme or anything" -... →
The methodology is simple: (a) Think of a famous book. (b) Look it up on Amazon.com. (c) Cherry-pick the one-star reader reviews. (d) Mockery ensues.
I have a new favorite pastime.
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“What if you could see through the walls of every museum and something could tell...”
– Speakers announced for Lightning Talks « Culture Hack Day (via iamdanw)
“Anyway, my question is this: as humans, we’ll treat animals and...”
– animals and not animals (12 Jan., 2011, at Interconnected, by Matt Webb)
A good question. I’m totally unqualified to answer, but maybe animism is a good place to start, as well as some of the anthropological studies into what types of religious concepts are sticky, and which aren’t…
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List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free... →
Unpatched vulnerabilities in the human brain.
You’d think we’d have a maintenance release by now.
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