Tom Creighton
We’re now officially in the future. Happy New Year!
Relevant 2010 fact: TV’s Murphy Brown voiced SAL 9000, HAL 9000′s earth-bound twin. Coincidence?
Whether we are based on carbon or silicon makes no fundamental difference. We should each be treated with appropriate respect. #2010
@adriandz Drag’n'drop voicemail services. Build phone tree logic lego-style.
Om Depot: the big box store for meditation supplies.
@adriandz I got and am currently reading this: http://tr.im/INgn Good reading in a self-congratulatory meandering philosophical way.
1/3 stuffed with christmas brunch, off to get 3/3 stuffed with extended family. If you don’t hear from me, I exploded.
Avatar is the chateaubriand of effects and the quarter pounder of story.
Aviation mnemonics are great: OWLS, CIGAR, GUMPS, and my favourite: BUMMMFITCHH.
I’m excited for what the new year will bring for Hamilton’s creative industry. Feels like good things are brewing.
Internet Explorer, I wish I knew how to quit you.
It’s almost 2010. Stop resizing my browser. Stop stealing focus. Stop making assumptions about my preferences.
I’m pretty sure James Cameron discovered a new planet and filmed Avatar there.
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Using the lessons learned from touch devices in the future of magazines: http://vimeo.com/8217311
New post: Designer/Programmer Harmony: Not Just a Myth – http://bit.ly/8zuDo8 (via @factor_e)
@RyanMcGreal Don’t know why it isn’t the accepted model, really. Give a couple of guys $100K, sink or swim. Less risk, more successes?
I honestly don’t understand why startups get millions of dollars. Why not give them 1/10th the amount and see how they do? Micro-VCs!
@kitestring Great to meet at #HYPE with other local creatives. Looking forward to the next one!
I want to go to LA, purely to sample the burgeoning crazy/gourmet food truck scene.
Dear fast food, you might as well go ahead and name it the ‘sterile anti-litigation burger’.
Winning a game is great. Sharing a game is better.
Best corporate slogan ever: “They’ll fight over it when you’re dead”.
Go-to dessert for Christmas parties: trifle. Delicious, insultingly easy to make, added bonus of looking like an explosion in Care-a-lot.
If names were meat, Dolph Lundgren would be a porterhouse.
Creative work is never finished; it is only ever pinioned, anesthetized, and ejected from the nest.
Every PS3 racing game takes place in some frictionless alternate dimension.
I usually have nothing but praise for Honda’s design, but the Accord Crosstour is the automotive equivalent of ‘My Humps’.
Apple’s drive to dominate gesture-based computing at all costs isn’t good for gesture-based computing or Apple.
BRB, just going down to the 24-hour axiomat to tumble-dry my theorems.
Modern phones are tiny slivers of magic inside a plastic rind. It’s magic we can put in our pocket, so we forgot how amazing it is.
Goodbye Movember, hello Decembeard.
Weird-bad UI in sci-fi movies grinds my gears. I’m looking at you, every rendition of ‘virtual reality’ ever.
I’m retraining myself not to design around the limitations of dead browsers. Modern CSS + JS is a velociraptor.
Check out the just-launched http://squareup.com/. Payment processing anywhere with no contracts, through an audio jack(!). This is HUGE.