Tom Creighton
Connecting with musicians = great, but if I can’t figure out what your site does after 5 minutes I’m writing you off.
Are there any benefits to an online publication having an ISSN?
Justifying design decisions post-hoc is a useful exercise in learning why you did what you did.
A great post on harmonizing the BBC’s online properties: http://tr.im/PMmS
A brand new blog post: Improve Usability by Tapping Into Your Own Experiences http://tr.im/PLxU (via @factor_e)
Super useful website-screen-grab utility: http://derailer.org/paparazzi/
Our latest blog post: Designer/Programmer Harmony: We’re Not Always Right (Just Usually) http://tr.im/PCWn (via @factor_e)
I’d like for there to be a klezmer version of ‘Mama Said Knock You Out’.
“Every additional moving part is a future source of failure.”
New blog post!! Top 5 FREE Apps I Can’t Live Without http://bit.ly/99gYod (via @factor_e)
It’s easy to conflate success with excellence. The two are, at best, tangentially related.
The targeted specificity of online scams is amazing. You would think there would be a law of diminishing returns in play.
‘Upgrading’ to iTunes 9 has proven to be a terrible decision.
@theelusivefish … and inputs games for pleasure. No one knows for sure, but I intend to find out!
How to compete with iPad: tr.im/OGPY
Wreckx-n-Effect, although amply able to shake rumps, is terrible working music.
Building a WordPress template is akin to demolishing a house for building materials.
Next project: build a script that detects any site-initiated browser resize and launches a DDOS. DO NOT resize my browser.
More people are linking directly to their Twitter feed. This is good: evaluate by what they say, not how they say it.
Enjoying Valentine’s Day, watching the most romantic movies ever: Predator and Predator II. ♥
Compelling design means jack + squat if the functionality frustrates user expectations.
Why isn’t there an Open Gesture Consortium? Apple/Palm/et al could settle this once and for all.
@westerndave Actually, I think that’s one of the handsomest minivans I’ve seen. Different strokes, I guess.
Is Die Antwoord a real thing? I mean, I’m enjoying it, but it seems like the South African version of Goldie Lookin Chain.
I can’t read anything about the candiru without hearing it in the voice of the Monarch.
Thanks for drastically reducing the bandwidth of this information, audiobooks!
Dragon Dictation puts an asterisk in swear words. Apparently it’s the vowel that makes it dirty.
Protip: William Orbit is good music for drifting serenely through interstellar space.
Just started using Wesabe to track my finances. Utterly depressing. Starbucks, you will be the ruin of me.
Competition Bureau takes on MLS: http://tr.im/NmTe Good news for Canadian homeowners.
Dutch and English letter frequency is similar enough that I didn’t realize I was reading Dutch until my brain went “Wait, what?”
Good to know: It would take the Large Hadron Collider 30 nanoseconds to defrost a frozen pizza.
Why is the default no-image avatar always that dumpy round-headed guy? Is Alfred Hitchcock the ur-avatar?
So I finally played Portal. Aperture Science must have an abominable workplace safety record.
Is it lame to be the mayor of your house on Foursquare? If so, why?
Seeing Futura used in that particular Wes Andersonesque way gives me a tiny design thrill.
Biggie + Miley Cyrus = Great success http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENYsanXR0pQ (via @SeanLazer)
@ Starbucks – just heard someone order a drink at a specific temperature. Can I order a latte in watts per square meter?
I saw ‘The Secret of Kells’ earlier this year: http://www.thesecretofkells.com/ Lush, beautiful film. Worth getting in HD.
Meeting people who fill you with entrepreneurial zest is invigorating. I’m going out and starting a million companies!
Good ideas for 2010 (or any time): http://tr.im/MGbW from the amazing @fchimero
The iPad keynote showed us what we can do, not what we could do. Everybody wanted the big vision.
Untruth in advertising: ‘honey’ sounds a lot better than ‘bee puke’.
Curation of product design is more important than features or power of product design. See: Apple, Nintendo.
Spring is being suppressed by Big Groundhog.
Nobody in viral zombie outbreak situations is ever immune to the zombie virus. That doesn’t seem statistically likely.
My laptop is 5 years old. It still runs everything I need it to. Why upgrade?