Jay Robinson

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  • I talked about power. We’ve got work we have to do with hardware partners, with Intel. There’s certainly some work to be done there. And over time where we go is where we go. But at least in the timeframe that which anybody does these models, for example, let’s go. Let’s go and we’ll be…

  • Original wardrobe and makeup test for Levar Burton as Geordi LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Via Scott Jackson.

  • ikenbot: M94 Distance: 5,000,000 Light Years by Robert Gendler On visual inspection M94 appears to be a series of ring like structures. As one of the closest starburst-ringed galaxies it possesses one of the highest optical surface brightness nuclei known. At its center is a 1400 light year stellar bar which has been an important…

  • Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. Frank Lloyd Wright

  • Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching. Fight it. Blake Masters

  • Random Photoshop Shortcuts

    I’m not typing these shortcuts here to remember them later, I’m typing them here to remember them now. Command D – Deselect Command J – Duplicate Layer Hold down H and click for bird’s eye view of document. Release to return to current zoom level. Shift click on a mask to disable. Shift plus number…

  • The images above show Safari 5.2 with page zoom on at 300%, Firefox 11 at 200%, and Google Chrome Canary at 200% both default and with image-rendering altered, browsing Dribbble. There are times you want to view something at actual pixels, regardless of your browser’s pixel ratio or your display’s pixel density. I went looking…

  • Check out my Flight Tracker demo on Dribbble. One, two, three shots!

  • The Microsoft Surface will have a retail price comparable with competitive ultrabook-class PCs. Steven Sinofsky addressing pricing expectations at the Microsoft Surface event. I was very curious to see what a “competitive ultrabook-class PC” cost. So I googled some stuff. From the Wikipedia entry on Ultrabooks, I gather that ultrabooks typically cost between $800 and…

  • Some sick iPhone speakers you’ve probably never heard of: The Nixon TPS Portable Stereo Speaker System. Buy one as a portable iPhone speaker. Or buy two and connect for stereo sound. Rechargeable 6-hour battery, or USB-powered. Wires tuck neatly away into solid aluminum chassis. $80. and see if you’re not convinced.

  • Honda CB750, cafe racer style

  • …to pursue surfing not just as an athletic endeavor or as a sunny day diversion, but to try to glean whatever lessons you can from the practice. It means being aware of your surroundings, and respectful of the people and places that you interact with. It means being patient, mindful, kind, compassionate, understanding, active, thoughtful,…

  • New portfolio homepage for jayrobinson.org. 100% hand-coded, plain old semantic HTML, and responsive CSS. Please, do check it.

  • Kama Sutra, illustrations by Malika Favre.

  • Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design

    Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface DesignIt’s not often you can get very much out of a solitary deck of slides. Much of the magic is meant to be delivered by the (hopefully engaging) speaker. However, Aaron Walter’s slide deck, Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design, was so good it inspired me to buy…