March 2012
They’re going to win. (via The Meta Picture )
The Setup -- Jonathan Frei
The Setup is a site I have followed for the past few months now. It is a series of interviews of people who make things with computers. Each interview follows the same format asking who they are, about what hardware and software they use to do what they do, and about their dream setup.
I wanted to examine my setup and write my answers to the interview questions. It turns out there is acommunity of people who have done the same.
Tangentially related. - Indexed
The Coffee Facts by Medness Click any image to see it bigger.
I really enjoyed reading the play Exiles last year, and the vintage cover is…
I really enjoyed reading the play Exiles last year, and the vintage cover is oddly fitting.
Dain Fagerholm: Creature in Cube with Gem (stereographic drawing)
Movies as code
Wind Map
Alberto Seveso shared these stunning photos of ink in water, a due Colori,…
Alberto Seveso shared these stunning photos of ink in water, a due Colori, on the Behance Network.
Ballet dancers slowed down
Watch Marina Kanno and Giacomo Bevilaqua from Staatsballett Berlin perform jumps and other impressive ballet moves in super slow motion. The detail at 1000 frames per second is incredible.
Radiohead’s Everything in Its Right Place is a nice touch too…
via Kottke
Mass produced hits
Frustro: The Impossible Font
Facebook Threatens Legal Action Against Employers Asking for Your Password
This Is a Fingerpainting . Needless to say, it was not completed by a…
This Is a Fingerpainting. Needless to say, it was not completed by a kindergartner.
Designer Degrees
Scott Adams thinks there should be a new kind of degree, a “certification that a student has completed a series of classes specified by a particular designer.”
The designer would not be limited to one college for specifying classes. For example, if Warrant Buffett designed the Warren Buffett Business Degree, he would specify the general type of classes that need to be completed, and the student would be free to find those classes across any number of institutions and sources, including online classes or work experience. A graduate who earns the Warren Buffett Business Degree might take a few classes at the local community college, spend a year in China learning Chinese, work for an Internet startup for a year, join Toastmasters International to practice public speaking, read a number of specific business books, and so on.
Everything Don Draper Said
How Do We Identify Good Ideas? >> Wired Science
Screenshots of Despair
Get another brain by learning another language
Here’s another reason for me to start learning Spanish again.
Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.
The article gives neurological reasons why knowing two languages makes you smarted and keeps your brain healthy. However, the sustained mental effort necessary to learn a second language probably provides the biggest brain boost.
Turn on your brain with metaphors
We need writers to seek out fresh metaphors and turn on our brains. Annie Murphy Paul explains why.
[A] team of researchers from Emory University reported in Brain & Language that when subjects in their laboratory read a metaphor involving texture, the sensory cortex, responsible for perceiving texture through touch, became active. Metaphors like “The singer had a velvet voice” and “He had leathery hands” roused the sensory cortex, while phrases matched for meaning, like “The singer had a pleasing voice” and “He had strong hands,” did not.
Post PC
Jeff Atwood’s article, Welcome to the Post PC Era, shows how the age of the onesizefitsalldoeverythingPC era has come to an end because of its own success. Smaller devices are able to do much of what we once needed full desktops to accomplish.
When was the last time you saw a desktop or a home without a computer? 2001? 2005? We’re long since past the point where Microsoft’s original BHAG was met, and even exceeded. PCs are absolutely ubiquitous. When you wake up one day to discover that you’ve completely conquered the world … what comes next?
I’m glad we got the Kindle and iPad instead of this 1933 imagining of a…
I’m glad we got the Kindle and iPad instead of this 1933 imagining of a futuristic book reader.
via Boing Boing
The girl with the camera and mirror
The girl with the camera and mirror
LEGO: The Simpsons via Laughing Squid
lonelysandwich . January, 2008. Just so we always remember where it all…
Don Draper just had brunch where I had brunch. I had the grilled veggie omelette. He had a scotch, a steak, and any woman he wants.
— lonelysandwich. January, 2008. Just so we always remember where it all started. Because, as far as I know? This is where it all started. (via merlin)
Good ideas write themselves
I’ll bet it’s more accurate than the nightly news. nevver : The Weatherstone
Get some sleep
This infographic provides some scientific backing for what you already know: You need more sleep.
The internet delivers only one medical diagnosis. via
The internet delivers only one medical diagnosis. via
Universities will shrink to coffee shops
A violin from the inside (via the Behance Network )
A violin from the inside (via the Behance Network)
The myth of the overnight success
New Star Wars Identities Posters Shows What Characters Are Made Of
John Gruber on the new iPad
John Gruber’s review of the new iPad is enough to make anyone start checking their credit limit to see if they can afford the latest toy from Apple.
Pixels pixels pixels. Battery battery battery. Speed speed speed.
That’s the new iPad, a.k.a. (for comparison’s sake) the iPad 3. The retina display, significantly faster graphics, and the potential for startlingly fast cellular networking — all with the same renowned battery life (and standby time) as the original iPad and iPad 2.
Flow
Stop Calling it Curation
How could we have missed this? The characters from Captain Planet are just…
How could we have missed this? The characters from Captain Planet are just the kids from The Magic School Bus as teenagers.
Posterous acquired by Twitter
Here’s hoping that they accepted his refusal of his denial
10 Tips on Writing from the original Mad Man
Maria Popova shared 10 tips on writing from advertizing legend David Ogilvy.
1. Read the Roman-Raphaelson book on writing. Read it three times.
2. Write the way you talk. Naturally.
Cool Geometric Illustrations of Pop Culture Icons by Liam Brazier
Justice is blind. (via Matt Frederick - Portraits )
Justice is blind. (via Matt Frederick - Portraits)
LIFE Magazine's Best Pictures
That's Not Your Mommy Anymore: A Zombie Tale
Trading clothes with your loved ones
What is the Future of Books?
Toy Shining
Romance authors get a free pass
What happened to newspapers?
The Ciphers of Social Media
Famous explosions, rendered with cauliflowers
How parents harm their kid's education
The modern Japan
Epic Action Photos of Porcelain Figurines Shattering Against the Ground
10 Commandments for Con Men
Why read books above your 'level'
One Way To Distract An Athlete On The Court
The psychology of priorities
Dogs as Fonts You may also like Cats as Fonts .
We are information scavengers. - Indexed
When “UP” Meets Star Wars
cycnus : Minimalist Pixar Posters
Shower Design WIN
There's something different about smart people
Something Definitely Gets Lost in Transit
Free markets tend towards the complex
via JasonTheodor.com
via JasonTheodor.com
Gather up the good brains
This might be slightly less funny if it were slightly less true. (via DOGHOUSE )
