January 2009
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“In fact, the mind appears to be adapted for reaching out from our heads and...”
– psychobabble: How Google Is Making Us Smarter (Discover Magazine)  
Jan 29th
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Jan 27th
Adobe UI Gripes →
…moaning about shoddy UI inconsistencies and mistakes in Adobe products and how they get shitter with every release and especially since they took on Macromedia’s idiotic philosophies. True.
Jan 27th
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Jan 25th
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“I measure a man’s seriousness by the degree of moral ambivalence he is able to...”
– exquisite writing read it. —2nded. .
Jan 25th
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“Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they’ll...”
– Derek Powazek - Programmers are Tiny Gods (via slantback)
Jan 24th
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“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging...”
– William James (via stephanieho) OK, so maybe I need to be a bit more careful, do a bit of research before I reblog any more quotes on Tumblr. Today I got this: It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to...
Jan 23rd
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Interesting Interface: Intentionallies  →
Yes, very stylish, but in flash, so no good, no saving puctures, no bookmarking etc. (via simko)
Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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“Everything you deal with as a User Experience designer is a wicked problem, at...”
– No rest for the wicked: a UX designer’s job is never done- 90 Percent of Everything (via slantback)
Jan 19th
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“Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the...”
–  Lao Tze
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
“Large-scale enterprise vendors like IBM, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft sell...”
– Daily question: Foot. Bullet. Trigger. « counternotions (via slantback)
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Jan 14th
“Newspapers took two cents of journalism and wrapped in ninety-eight cents of...”
– Seth Godin (via azspot) (via marco)
Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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“Economists actually have the audacity to claim that they are the only “hard”...”
– The God who failed? (via anthropophagous)
Jan 12th
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Brian Eno's answer to Edge's question, "What will... →
dailymeh: THE FEELING THAT THINGS ARE INEVITABLY GOING TO GET WORSE What would change everything is not even a thought. It’s more of a feeling. Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better. The world was rich compared to its human population; there were new lands to conquer, new thoughts to nurture, and new...
Jan 12th
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“The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours...”
– Omar Bradley (via vaughnshirley)
Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
Morality
mills: When I say pure morality is unconcerned with ends, I mean it is concerned only with means, with the conduct of the individual. The state of the world is never within your control; only your behavior is. A pure moral system -which arbitrates your relationship with the world- cannot depend at all on variables beyond your control or it is worthless, contingent, ungoverning. Thus pure...
Jan 10th
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“In the 20th century, marketing was the pusher of a consumption addiction:...”
– From the department of ‘duh’. A User’s Guide to 21st Century Economics - Umair Haque (via philleif)
Jan 10th
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ecommr: a collection of e-commerce interface and... →
philleif: ecommr is a website showcasing the best (and sometimes worst) in e-commerce design, with a clear focus on the individual elements that make up online stores. We break down retailers and focus on individual user interface elements in order to provide a gallery of inspiration for designers, developers, information architects, and anyone working with online retail.
Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction →
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Jan 9th
Spoonflower: Print custom fabric on-demand →
innvire get on it!
Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
“But the density of city life doesn’t just make it harder to focus: It also...”
– Read this with this. Eek. (via kettering)
Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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BLDGBLOG: Nuclear Urbanism →
“This mapplet,” we read, “shows the thermal damage caused by a nuclear explosion. Search for a place, pick a suitable weapon and press ‘Nuke It!’” Then see the range of damage on Google maps.
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Jan 5th
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