May 2011
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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
April 2011
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The Caring Contiuum
Over the last few years or so I’ve developed a personal slogan of sorts: Who cares, wins. As is always the case with me it’s a lame twist on something awesome: the motto of the United Kingdom’s Secret Air Service. With project based work this always made sense. You can be on your game mentally and physically, but if you don’t love your work then it won’t be any good....
March 2011
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Felt Tip blog: Slow Company →
felttip:
The idea behind the Slow Company movement is that instead of trying to be the first or to get the most mindshare or market share of any company in your vertical, you try to make something that people genuinely find useful and are willing to pay for it. And instead of trying to woo celebrities and plastering your name all over SXSW, you make something that people like so much that they...
On Parks & Rec
Cory Barker writes:
Someone might ask me what I’m watching, what’s good, etc. and if they’ve already made up their minds about Parks and Rec, it’s difficult for me to sell them on all the specific reasons I love this program in such a short time…
I’ve realized that I just have to simplify the message…As an overall product, Parks and Recreation is already better than The Office has...
February 2011
2 posts
I linked to The Nerd Handbook on twitter last week and wanted to say more about the overall subject here. What I’m adding is only tangentially related, but I thought to link to Rand’s piece again because it captures that new definition of nerd*—people who are passionate in what they do/like— and how they operate.
* In comparison to the old world definition ie. how 50 year old people...
December 2010
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November 2010
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October 2010
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August 2010
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The Top Idea in Your Mind →
Paul Graham
I think most people have one top idea in their mind at any given time. That’s the idea their thoughts will drift toward when they’re allowed to drift freely. And this idea will thus tend to get all the benefit of that type of thinking, while others are starved of it. Which means it’s a disaster to let the wrong idea become the top one in your mind
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LR3
explorology replied to your photo how do you like it?
Shame on me for taking so long to get around to replying to this. In the elapsed time dpreview.com has published their review of Lightroom 3, so let’s pretend I was waiting for that and never speak of my failure ever again.
Basically (i.e. the twitter version), Lightroom = Adobe Camera Raw + More Stuff. I took a second to try to...
July 2010
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June 2010
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May 2010
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Wrote this up last night as I was pushing 40 hours without sleep. Looks like tumblr saved it so what the hell:
Just finished this week’s Glee, which has made me wanted to point out a common thread I’ve enjoyed in TV shows this season: family. Or rather, family done well.
V is something I have on in the background, but it started to catch my interest when the conflict became personal, down...
April 2010
4 posts
A friend of mine goes to Brown and she has a...
(via charliebartlett)
March 2010
6 posts
Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most... →
“Cunning, clever, conniving, and creative,” as one prosecutor would call him, Blanchard eluded the police for years. But eventually he made a mistake. And that mistake would take two officers from the modest police force of Winnipeg, Canada, on a wild ride of high tech capers across Africa, Canada, and Europe.
I read the whole thing.
Princess and the Frog (2009)
Got in on the epic “Princess and the Frog + Toy Story 1 & 2 Blu-Ray for $11” deal. Wanted to write more than 140 characters after watching the former last night.
It’s set in the 1920s, but Princess and the Frog could easily take place in the modern day resulting in something that feels both contemporary and classic at the same time. Great characterization with both the leads...
Lily Allen - Everybody’s Changing
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Bonobo ‘Black Sands’ Album Mini Mix
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February 2010
8 posts
U.S. Helps Frequent Fliers Make a Mint - WSJ.com →
At least several hundred mile-junkies discovered that a free shipping offer on presidential and Native American $1 coins, sold at face value by the U.S. Mint, amounted to printing free frequent-flier miles. Mileage lovers ordered more than $1 million in coins until the Mint started identifying them and cutting them off.
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Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages →
Designer Steven Heller traces the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936.
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Free iPhone Apps for Designers
Ottr recently posted a link to “20 iPhone Apps every designer should know” which got me looking at the ones I’ve found useful to keep around.
These are all free; I haven’t bothered with paid apps yet because (1) theres too much junk out there and (2) it’s silly to pay for a color palette app when you’re already working on a computer.
What The Font Lets you...
January 2010
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December 2009
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