January 2010
111 posts
Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider’s guide to the... →
Interesting. (via Daring Fireball)
ProximRadio - Blobble - Blobbler - Music Hack Day... →
I never though you could fit this much awesome in a single webpage.
Black and WTF on Tumblr →
“[When] somebody was appreciative of his efforts, Tschichold spoke fluent...”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Letters from the Hellbox. I plan to use this trick in the future.
“In 1914 when Jan Tschichold was twelve, a poorly laid-out book with terrible...”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Letters from the Hellbox.
“Eventually, the Nazis had a break with their beloved Fraktur. In 1941 Martin...”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Letters from the Hellbox.
Cooper’s Virgil « John’s Blog →
On the book as a physical artifact.
Review: Safari Books Online — Michael James... →
Some good points on the merits of a digital library.
Daddy, What’s a Mouse? →
This is why it’s worth learning about advertising →
edouardbriere:
Our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.
Bam! That’s their selling point! Somebody gets paid lots of money to write that sentence, and they earn it all, because that sentence will sell several billion of these things.
I had the exact same thought when I watched the keynote today. Jobs even repeated this sentence...
“We should expect the difficulty of reverse engineering any human skill to be...”
– Moravec’s paradox – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via Bobulate)
The Millions: Nobody Wants to Go Home: A Unified... →
“Ich habe mit allen natürlichen und künstlichen Organen meines Individuums das...”
– Goethe an Schiller, Weimar, 4. September 1794
Metagames and Containers →
Another great format.
The Truth About the East Wind →
The format is pretty good.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Elvis Presley (8)
Cacao (5)
Dover (4)
The Beatles (3)
Tristen (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Hotel chain offers human bed warmers →
There’s a picture, too. If you’re staying in London or Manchester, I implore you to try this out and report your findings back to me.
What would happen if the printed book had just... →
Library Data in a Modern Context →
This chapter of “Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata” explores the history of library data and where it stands in a modern context. The rise of a new information environment—the World Wide Web—has revealed the downside of the long history that libraries have with metadata. The question that we must face, and that we must face sooner rather than later, is how we can best...
Ulysses “Seen” →
Ulysses as a comic! You know you’re procrastinating when you’re reading this.
“In fact, Germany’s post-war low was 10 points higher than the highest...”
– German Joys: The Mass.-acre and the American Political Duopoly
Think different, CIA - The Boston Globe →
The first and most important tendency is that our minds are prone to see patterns and meaning in our world quite quickly, and then tend to ignore information that might disprove them.
Second, people pay more attention to visible information than to information generated by an absence.
Third, conclusions often rest on assumptions that are not readily testable, and may even be immune to...
YouTube Blog: Introducing YouTube HTML5 Supported... →
HTML5 on YouTube doesn’t support videos with ads, captions, or annotations.’ – So basically, it is a better experience.
Star Wars opening crawl, using only HTML →
HD SCHELLNACK » COPY & PASTE →
Finde ich auch.
“One ISBN with a chinese publisher prefix was found on records for over 24,000...”
– Go To Hellman: Google Exposes Book Metadata Privates at ALA Forum
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
God Help The Girl (42)
Glenn Gould (32)
Vampire Weekend (29)
Bob Dylan (24)
Indochine (18)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Some process of humanisation was necessary before the new architecture could be...”
– Elizabeth Mock, Built in USA, p. 13 (1944)
Is RSS making me unable to read a layout? →
‘I’m a graphic designer. I’m starting to wish the web looked like a page from Text Edit, with added pictures. I love RSS feeds. It’s not just the convenience, I actually just love what they look like.’