January 2010
“Write drunk; edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via amyyy)
“The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver,...”
– Fraser Speirs - Future Shock
via everybody
“A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.”
– Ben Shneiderman
Nottingham →
if like me simplenote’s minimalist note taking and sync-ed workflow took over your reminders, to-dos and post-its, then give Nottingham a try. It syncs with simplenote and adds the notational velocity type-and-forget bliss that is so addictive.
Michael Geist - ACTA Guide : The Documents... →
Secret intellectual property international treaty currently being negotiated.
via global guerillas
“6: I have means by secret and tortuous mines and ways, made without noise, to...”
– Leornado da Vinci’s resume.
“Compositing is no longer an A over B task.”
– Richard Shackleton
on acquiring SPI’s Katana and what it means for Nuke.
The worlds are colliding
mrgan:
Here’s one metric I’ve been using: think of the person for whom the iPad will be the first computer they use. They will come to it with no expectation of cameras, multitasking, Flash, or storage size. Now wait a few years (months?) and give them a desktop computer. They have to interact with it using these weird things on the desk which aren’t even where the content is. Like, you look...
J. D. Salinger - Obituary - The New York Times →
Mr. Salinger also perfected the great trick of literary irony — of validating what you mean by saying less than, or even the opposite of, what you intend. Orville Prescott wrote in The Times in 1963, “Rarely if ever in literary history has a handful of stories aroused so much discussion, controversy, praise, denunciation, mystification and interpretation.”
Clay Shirky on Secretary Clinton’s Internet... →
[Topic Sentence]
We stand for a single internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas.
[Internet freedom as an aspect of human rights]
“The iPad makes the Kindle look like it’s from the 1980s.”
– Jason Kottke
John Robb on Desktop Manufacturing -Global... →
model in ‘puter, print in 3d printer.
What this means in the mid to long term is that manufacturing will quickly become more about manipulation of information (designs, controls, etc.) than materials. The actual physical production takes little space, money, and basic materials (perfect for decentralized resilient communities that need to make their own stuff).
This also means that...
thesixtyone - a music adventure →
Clean, no nonsense website.
On thesixtyone, new artists make music and listeners decide what’s good. We’re nurturing a growing ecosystem where talented folks can sell songs and merchandise directly to their fans.
A Brief History of the Blues →
There are a number of different ideas as to what the blues really are: a scale structure, a note out of tune or out of key, a chord structure; a philosophy? The blues is a form of Afro-American origin in which a modal melody has been harmonized with Western tonal chords. In other words, we had to fit it into our musical system somehow. But, the problem was that the blues weren’t sung...
WatchAntony Athala on growing new organs
I’m planning my future healthcare, and my present bingeing behaviours, on these hypothetical futures.
The Hidden Brain // Neuroscience - Salon.com →
One more in the amazon queue.
Shankar Vedantam, a science writer with the Washington Post, uses the Michael Richards incident in his new book, “The Hidden Brain,” to illustrate the way he believes our unconscious can betray us — and reveal biases we wouldn’t even acknowledge to ourselves. Vedantam uses a wide array of vivid true stories to make his point: The tragic...
“A drawing can never be pornography. A drawing is a visual description of an idea...”
– Paul Pope, on Moebius
