April 2009
51 posts
“This is impenetrable. It’s UI salad. I realize this is not (yet) shipping...”
– Steven Frank about a Microsoft Office 2010 screenshot. http://tinyurl.com/cncd7o
“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.”
– Gabriel García Márquez (via whitecloth: quote-book) (via thresca)
“Nothing is more worth studying than human discourse. We are the language-using...”
– Tim Bray, http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/04/25/Long-and-Short-Forms
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”
– Katharine Hepburn (via littlemiss)
I'm only me when I'm with you.
(via littlemiss)
“To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything be more fun?”
– Katherine Graham (via littlemiss)
Nothing. This is so right…
Pretty Sketchy by Jason Santa Maria →
Geocities to fade away...
One of the oldest services is about to die. Geocities, by all means the first social network like hosting service, will be switched off. http://tinyurl.com/c2vomo
“If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don’t, you will...”
– Unknown (via littlemiss)
Erfahrungs- und Kenntnissgefälle
Keen: “[…] Nicht ganz. Während wir als Teil der Medienelite verstehen, wie das Internet tickt, sind die meisten Menschen dem Web 2.0 schutzlos ausgeliefert. Ihnen fehlt die gesunde Portion an Misstrauen. […]”
SpON: Interview mit Andrew Keen, http://tinyurl.com/dkztob
Stimmt. Erlebe ich täglich in meinem Umfeld - sobald ich privat bin und nicht nur mit...
“rumänen? hier in unna?”
– #bang #boom #bang
“oh mann. mit der kralle kann ich mir ja noch nicht mal nen ordentlichen jolly...”
– #bang #boom #bang
Bestandsgarantie for obsolete business model...
bruhaha! roflol: http://tinyurl.com/c6ykvd Medienunternehmen fordern Bestandsgarantie. (ich will papyrus zurück) #tageszeitung #fail
Die Musikindustrie möchte vor dem bösen neuen Medium geschützt werden. Die Medienunternehmen, die noch Papier bedrucken, auch.
Am besten ist folgendes Zitat:
“Krautscheid schlug vor, das Projekt “Zeitungszeit”, bei dem neunte Klassen in...
“(Zeit Online zum Netzsperren-Gesetzentwurf von #Zensursula) Kein Richter...”
– http://tinyurl.com/d3k39j
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the...”
– James Baldwin (via thresca)
Not only by reading but by living ones life one can understand and believe in this. I begin to realize that.
In Defense of Eye Candy →
Good article about usability.
“Researchers in Japan setup two ATMs, “identical in function, the number of buttons, and how they worked.” The only difference was that one machine’s buttons and screens were arranged more attractively than the other. In both Japan and Israel (where this study was repeated) researchers observed that subjects encountered fewer difficulties with the more...
Arbeitsentwurf "Zensursulas Sperrgesetz" →
“Wichtigste Neuerung gegenüber dem Entwurf des Bundeswirtschaftsministeriums vom...”
– http://tinyurl.com/cdh379
unglaublich aber wahr. und das das technisch nicht funktionieren wird ist völlig egal - oder billigend in kauf genommen. dann wird halt im 2.ten schritt über “richtige” filterung/zensur nachgedacht… #zensursula #1984
Best Tower Defense Game: Geo Defense →
Bestes Tower Defense Spiel bisher. Feine Vektor-Grafik, tolle Soundeffekte. Macht süchtig.
Kleine und staatliche Provider brauchen nicht... →
Internetsperren werden so langsam zur Farce - nicht nur technisch unsinnig. Auch bürokratisch total daneben. #zensursula
Depeche Mode
Listening to their newest album. Think Depeche has lost it. Like the classics. Not the new ones. #byebye
“Spring has sprung”
– Jamie Oliver
“Really, it’s a bit LOL,” said Peter Kolmisoppi, one of the team behind The...”
– http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5170684/What-does-The-Pirate-Bay-ruling-mean-for-the-web.html
“… let’s put brands aside for a second and focus on the web. The number of...”
– Small is the new big
(Noah Brier via fascinated)
(via betaworks)
I think this is true. We need to find ways to leverage the long tail of small communities…
Loft Life - i would love to live in a loft. →
“Shipping a 1.0 product isn’t going to kill you, but it will try.”
– Rands In Repose: 1.0 (via davidkaneda)
(via buzzandersen)
Mega-Dropdown-Menus →
Jacob Nielsen’s take on BIG navigational dropdown menus. He thinks they work. I tend to agree - which was not always the case in the last years… *grin*
“BTW, a Black Swan is an event that is rare, has a large impact, and is deemed...”
– http://www.kottke.org/09/04/a-world-without-black-swans
World without black swans →
via kottke - i just read n.n. talebs book and still am fascinated.
http://www.kottke.org/09/04/john-madden-retires →
john madden is about to leave the building. legendary football coach. like kottke said - he wasn’t for everyone, but i liked him.
“If something has happened twice, it will happen a third time”
– Japanese Proverb (via nadinastiti)
“Life’s pretty good, and why wouldnt it be? I’m a pirate, after all.”
– Johnny Depp (via thresca)
How I Explained REST to My Wife →
cubicle17:
Cute. I’m filing this away for the cold day in Hell when my wife starts a conversation with a question like “Who is Roy Fielding?”
Ten Graphic Design Paradoxes →
cubicle17:
This isn’t the typical list of paradoxes, which I appreciate. And like all good lists, this one goes to eleven:
11. When a client says the words — “you have complete creative freedom,” they never mean complete creative freedom. Whatever you show them, they will find a problem with. Happens every time.
Yes. So true…
“It isn’t the strengthening of copyright law that allows me to make money, it’s...”
– Jonathan Lethem
(via Signal vs Noise)
(via betaworks)
Many more have been heared saying similar things. Authors like Cory Doctorow or singers like NiN. Maybe the content industry is plain wrong with their attitude “fix the world so my ancient business model can work again”…
“Companies with excessive resources rarely deliver the return on new product...”
– Jeff Nolan (via betaworks)
This is so correct…
