Tom Creighton
Little known fact: Will Smith and Carlton created the ‘Jump on It’ dance. WHAT’S UP HOUSTON, WHAT’S UP?
Design is the reification of creativity.
HP tells me to TRUST Original HP Toner. Shall I also stick my fingers in my ears and go ‘la la la la’?
The e-mail client gene pool is pretty shallow. 2009 Thunderbird is just 1994 Outlook Express with a slapdash coat of paint.
Twitter encourages brevity.
When life gives you lemons, squeeze them right into life’s eyes. Nobody wants your stupid lemons, LIFE.
I’ve had it with these monkey-patching snakes on this monkey-patching plane!
The increasing use of hand-drawn type and illustration on the web is refreshing. The web needs more eraser marks and scribbly parts.
When did the hipster crowd and the mall art crowd begin to like the same things?
I’d be happier about paying for car insurance if my policy simply said:
(A) Things You Can Do: Drive Around
(B) Things You Can’t Do: Crash
Some time in the mid-60s, Sugar Bear turned from bright-eyed right-stuff cereal mascot to subversive bohemian.
Sudoku is boring because it’s solvable by mechanical heuristics. There is no creativity involved.
Submitted for your consideration as best thing ever: http://tr.im/CGt6
Stepping out of the usual blanket of always-on connectivity makes one realize how much we take easy instantaneous communication for granted.
You’re salting stored passwords, right? Add some garlic and rosemary. I want my encryption to be delicious!
I could listen to Jon Ive talk about designing Apple products all day. Maybe it’s the accent.
@RyanMcGreal Without doubt. Self-performance review after the project, then giving yourself a lecture on best practices: over the line.
Giving yourself deadlines on self-imposed projects is a great motivator.
Midnight trains going anywhere are largely to blame for the decline of consumer rail.
RT @factor_e Thinking functionally about web design: the value of designing interactions instead of pages. http://tr.im/CjzM – TC
What better way to start the week than with a cover of Eminem in tlhIngan Hol: http://tr.im/CinX
The @mypantone iPhone app looks great – especially useful for capturing local colours and trying out colour combos without your swatchbooks.
Online banking: Please call customer service so we can coddle you like a barely numerate child.
New Web 2.0 idea: VCblaze.com – tracks how much VC cash has disappeared into the maws of various zero-income Web 2.0 properties.
There is no perfect information architecture – like all design, there is always a trade-off between usability and appeal.
Super-helpful tips from @smashingmag on colour management from PS mockup to the web: http://tr.im/BEgD
Zombieland kind of made me wish for a real zombie uprising… but most zombie uprisings probably aren’t heartwarming road trip adventures.
Digital Darwinism – the ecosystem of collaboration: http://tr.im/BxIo (via @maggiefox)
Pumpkins were once recommended for curing snake bites. Luckily, no serpents were involved in Thanksgiving this year.
James Bond introduced the world to the use of ‘octopus’ as an adjective.
Food rules from Michael Pollan: http://tr.im/BdtQ My fav: Never eat something that is pretending to be something else.
Upgrading from a dumbphone to a smartphone is like upgrading from a Flintstones car to a Veyron.
As the number of comments in a thread approaches Gimli’s constant, the chances of finding ‘And my axe!’ increases asymptotically.
Naturally, on the day I sign a contract with Fido, every other carrier in Canada gets the iPhone. #badtiming
When did we shift from 25ยข to $0.25? It’s like the difference between ‘steak’ and ‘animal cross-section’.
Photosketch just blew my mind: http://tr.im/AS9T Machine vision plus mathemagical compositing = photoshop meets skynet.
RT @factor_e New web apps are like new words: hard to achieve widespread adoption for many factors including luck. http://bit.ly/TDXWo – AD
In New Zealand’s 2001 census, if ‘Jedi’ had been officially counted it would have been the second largest religious group in New Zealand.
There needs to be a business that abstracts away the business of running a business: turn-key office admin. This almost certainly exists.
Thanks to mr. @seanlazer for introducing me to Javelin’s Jamz n Jemz. Serious working music.