“If you don’t judge my gold chains/ I’ll forget the iron chains,” he says, in what may be the song’s single most jaw-dropping rhyme.
via Slate
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When the coldness of digital photography and the ease and ubiquity of camera phones means we now have 50 pictures of a moment when we used to have one. Filters are a way of saying to ourselves: stop, this moment is important. I’m selecting it specifically. I’m differentiating it from the stream.
Flickr’s iOS App Is Still Playing Catch-Up – Here’s What It Needs | TechCrunch.
These were the goggles he wore on D-Day, and I would ski in his goggles. I remember on one of these ski trips, I lost the goggles. I had to tell my mom. I was devastated. And she said to me, “These things are to be used.”
It is proven that when beginner met an exception to the rule, they don’t trust the rule anymore, seeing once again the computer as a scary stuff without any kind of logic.
via The aristocratic desktop (part 3) : There’s no tray icon in GNOME! – Where is Ploum?.
There was nothing difficult about the concept of multiplication — the problem was that numbers, at the time, had a bad user interface.
via Ex-Apple Designer Creates Teaching UI That “Kills Math” Using Data Viz | Co. Design.
When we (mis)attribute a joke or quote, we’re … giving our unconscious an author, and leaning on the author’s authority. …it’s an acceptable way to let our nervous feelings out, without having to completely own them ourselves. We just co-sign.
Rand … was also a staunch advocate of abortion rights and sexual hedonism, and an atheist to boot, which her conservative admirers have largely ignored.
via The Tea Party and Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged | Megan Gibson | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.
…it kind of feels like the iMac grew up with us.
via Flavorwire » Redesigning Classic Products: Always a Bad Idea?.
I cannot think of anything that works as well or as consistently as the humble land line telephone.
via What The Telephone’s Unbeatable Functionality Teaches Us About Innovation | Co.Design.
GeoCities was the largest self-created folk-art collection in the history of the world
via Yahoo! Pulls Plug on GeoCities, Erases Internet History – TIME.
the best apps are the ones that have the fewest features and execute on them insanely well.
Was painfully reminded of this while looking for a Notational Velocity alternative for Linux.
I was tickled that I got emacs into a block buster movie.
via jtnimoy – Tron Legacy (2010) via Kottke
One of the most disappointing things about the slew of online Rebecca Black abuse is the sheer poverty of language involved.
Characters have to walk into a house talking about stuff they probably should have been talking about in the car on the way there.
Apple is under fire from gay rights activists after it approved an iPhone and iPad app targeting “homosexual strugglers”.
Well at least they’re still “free from porn.”
via ‘Gay cure’ app: more than 80,000 complain – Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk.
Calling “Friday” disastrous is akin to The New York Review of Books tearing apart The Berenstein Bears. Sure, it doesn’t meet your standards. It’s not for you.
via Thirteen-Year-Old Rebecca Black’s Lyrics vs. Katy Perry’s Lyrics – Culture – GOOD.
The problem with the GOP’s elite-bashing is not their definition but their contradictions. In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives.
Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it’s there, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
I would often go to upstream projects with a list of paper cuts to discuss and have a very difficult time finding someone to discuss them with. Either the maintainer was too busy, or nobody was interested in small user experience issues, or “the mailing list made that [design decision],” or there was no record justifying the existing user experience so project stakeholders assumed they were deliberate decisions made by the original authors, etc.
via Announcing the User Experience Advocates Project < The Plenitude of Arboreal Beauty.
Oh dear lord somebody please help us.
So please, don’t just call compiz bloated because people enable every single plugin then make a 10 minute screencase of wobbly spinning firey watery cubes at a framerate of 2FPS