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My sister, Deverie, and I in 1983.
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Commonplacing facilitates reflexive thought. Regarding a “commonplace book”, mentioned in chapter 4 of Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson. In the early 19th century, “gentlemen of letters” often kept a commonplace book, which meant they recorded the interesting ideas and passages of text they encountered in their studies, in order that they could…
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Patrick Moberg: I’ve been experimenting with polyphasic sleep schedules the past week, which is, more or less, taking a bunch of short naps throughout the day rather than all at once. I think there is a Seinfeld episode where Kramer attempts it, but I couldn’t track it down. It’s been a cool/bizarre/fun experiment, allowing for a lot of…
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If you cut me open and saw what was inside, it’s Windows. Windows. Windows. Windows. My favorite Steve Ballmer quote.
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The True Size of The Moon, by Tag Savage.
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The school of Jay-Z studies
The school of Jay-Z studies Jay-Z doesn’t need to be Homer. Or Shakespeare. Or Mark Twain, Beethoven or Wagner. He’s Jay-Z: arguably, the most important figure to come out of the biggest cultural movement of the past 30 years. The merits of the case – for serious intellectual course work focused on the man and…
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QR UX: Some clever ideas for integrating QR readers into Apple iOS.
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Via Joseph Schmitt: This is the best thing I’ve seen all week. Keep up the good work, Internet: SiriProxy is used to intercept the communication with Apple’s servers. Based on your song request, Notorious Siri then sends your choice of Notorious B.I.G.’s Hypnotize and an a-cappella rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody to the device (the…
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Been hanging out with this guy all week. He’s so friendly!
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My aunt Sue’s cabin in Homer, Alaska, is beautiful. Especially when covered with snow.
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Sencha tumblr: We liked the posters for our HTML5 Roadshow so much we decided to put them up in our lobby! Custom illustrations by our designer Katherine Chu!
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All I want to be is a person who makes things and thinks about them. John Maeda
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Had some fun altering this photo of the Amazon Kindle Fire for our HTML5 Scorecard. I took the photo with my iPhone 4. I originally used the natural reflection of the ceiling and florescent lights, but I didn’t like it so I made my own.
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Sencha tumblr: HTML5 Scorecard: Amazon Kindle Fire When the Kindle Fire was announced, we were excited about getting our hands on it. As the first mass market tablet at the $200 price point, we knew it had a good shot at selling millions of units. But at the same time, we were apprehensive that Amazon…