April 2009
“The sex takes place entirely for his pleasure and any beneficence on his part is...”
– Elliot Perlman, Seven Types Of Ambiguity (via nightmarebrunette)
is that so hard ?
Wash your hands
Cover your mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze
Stay home when you’re sick
Avoid touching your mouth, nose, or eyes with your hands
Avoid close contact with sick people
Exercise, get lots of rest, eat nutritious food, and drink plenty of water
Brain Gain : The New Yorker →
Margaret Talbot on The underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs
In 2004, he coined the term “cosmetic neurology” to describe the practice of using drugs developed for recognized medical conditions to strengthen ordinary cognition. Chatterjee worries about cosmetic neurology, but he thinks that it will eventually become as acceptable as cosmetic surgery has; in fact, with neuroenhancement it’s...
Apple did not fire anyone | Smoking Apples →
this quote from Steve jobs :
We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place — the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep...
A List Apart: In Defense of Eye Candy →
Researchers in Japan setup two ATMs, “identical in function, the number of buttons, and how they worked.” The only difference was that one machine’s buttons and screens were arranged more attractively than the other. In both Japan and Israel (where this study was repeated) researchers observed that subjects encountered fewer difficulties with the more attractive machine. The attractive machine...
“There is no better time to be a great designer, and no worst time to be a...”
– Michael DiTullo’s Advice For Students. Core77.com
The legal copy in Apple's ‘Legal Copy’ ad |... →
Macworld went through the trouble and made a transcript of the legal copy in the latest mac ads. The sad thing ? it’s good advice for xp users.
“The only thing I love more than DRM is DRM that actively cripples my computer.”
– stevenf.com - Have Adobe Creative Suite installed? Open up your console and…
Twitter
finally got my lazy self around twitter (Tweetie having a lot to do with it. The interface is just candy.) username is henriyim, hope to see you there ^_^
johnaugust.com » Inner struggle is not plot →
Write a book. Or a song. Or a poem.
Sure, many great movies feature characters struggling against their demons, or attempting to find themselves. But it’s invariably played as subtext against a more external conflict — the one that actually drives the plot. You need to be able to point the camera at something.
There’s nothing wrong with internal struggle. Just pick a medium that can handle it.
Web Series Creators: It's Time To Step It Up →
Think startups not pilots.
Web series are startups. Creators are entrepreneurs and need to think that way. Seriously, ditch the old Hollywood mindset right now. Stop waiting for someone to pick you, find you, groom you or pitch you. You have everything you need right now to grow your audience.
via the ever beautiful Alice
“Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free.”
– Linus Torvalds (via poirpom)
Mamihlapinatapai →
via krist-:
Mamihlapinatapai. It’s a “look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.”
“It’s the voice. Yelling adult voices go right to the heart of a...”
– Pia Guerra, on the design of the Daleks. @Whitechapel
