Jay Robinson

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  • Google’s big pitch video for Glass is all about utility, with just a dollop of delight at the end, but don’t let that fool you. … This isn’t about sharing pictures. This is about sharing your vision. Robin Sloan hypothesizes how Google is going after Facebook in the battle for eyeballs. Go read Pictures and…

  • Scientists Discover the Oldest, Largest Body of Water In Existence—In Space This blows my mind.

  • Here you go: “Sleeping Bag” by Heavy Hawaii

  • Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking… Ray…

  • Put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around. Stephen King, On Writing This is my new favorite quote.

  • The Las Vegas Star Trek Attraction That Almost Came to Life in 1992: In 1992, downtown Las Vegas had become a distant second to the Las Vegas Strip. … The loss of business was turning the downtown area into a “ghost town” and something needed to be done quickly. The city needed an attraction –…

  • Dribbble’d a space shot this afternoon.

  • There is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of genuine inspiration. Steve Martin, Born Standing Up

  • Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

  • Coffee and Camera animated gif. (Maxed out).

  • Challenged myself to recreate these shiny, Jolly Rancher-like buttons by The Skins Factory in a half-hour over the weekend. Not 100% similar, but a healthy Photoshop exercise nonetheless. Check it out on Dribbble.

  • My dad is killing it on Etsy: My daughter wanted two of these for her June 30 wedding, and I keep selling them! Bet your mom likes it.

  • The Sleep Science: Noosphere Series by Tatiana Plakhova.

  • Stereo Speaker on Dribbble.

  • Download my Safari Extension: MaxVid Full-Window Flash Videos for YouTube & Vimeo I made my first Safari browser extension to maximize YouTube and Vimeo Flash videos to the size of the window. Now you have a window you can position anywhere on the screen to watch videos while you do other things. After using it…