February 2010
28 posts
“You can be the greatest designer on the planet, have the most intriguing...”
– Learn To Fucking Spell | I Am Paddy
“It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no...”
– In the Pipeline: Sand Won’t Save You This Time
“China’s hackers subverted the access system Google put in place to comply...”
– U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google - CNN.com
“As I said, he was always the navigator, and once, when he was 95 and she was 88...”
– USATODAY.com - A life without left turns
“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have...”
– Roger Ebert: The Essential Man
“When competing with iPad, you have to realise that, to your new core market,...”
– How to compete with iPad » Matt Legend Gemmell
“When folks need an elevator, we should give them an elevator, not an airplane....”
– funkatron.com : We’re the Stupid Ones: Facebook, Google, and Our Failure as Developers
“What we want from our technology, in its most elemental form, is to make our...”
– lonelysandwich - Adaptation
“No one knows what the fuck they’re doing. Not me, not those guys making bank,...”
– No One Knows What the F*** They’re Doing (or “The 3 Types of Knowledge”)
“growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”
– Has Portland’s tight growth boundary staved off “Slumburbia” syndrome? | OregonLive.com (quote attributed to Edward Abbey) (via mattly)
“[…] you can never have a good relationship with anyone when your focus is...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: Don’t Settle For The Man You Want
“The point of Twitter isn’t knowledge or understanding, it’s merely connective...”
– Rands In Repose: A Story Culture
Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots... →
Excerpts from a few of the best articles I’ve read about the iPad and why it’s so important as a computing appliance for simply getting useful work done, as opposed to the complex general-purpose systems we’re used to.
“As an industry, we need to understand that not wanting root access doesn’t make...”
– Mule Design Studio’s Blog: The Failure of Empathy
“So stop thinking your users are stupid. Teach them, train them, and let them...”
– Stop Being an Idiot - Ordered List
“I have lived my entire life blissfully unaware that a conversation has been...”
– Looking for Style | onfocus
“We often wonder what a conservative paradise would really look like on the...”
– pandagon.net - we are the public option
“My fellow parishioners believed that they would, with the wave of god’s magic...”
– Pentecostal Boys Aren’t Like Holden Caulfield, Part 24 - the parish