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David Foster Wallace on Life and Work
Fantastic commencement speech about perspective in life. When reading it I couldn’t help but hear my mother’s voice saying, “You don’t have to look very far to see someone worse off then yourself.”
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Visitor: Conan O'Brien (Archive)
Taken by Twitter
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Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
“Its founder, Bill Gates, is not only the most generous philanthropist in history, but has also inspired thousands of his employees to give generously themselves. No one in his right mind should wish Microsoft failure.” I’ve poked fun at Microsoft many times in the past, but it is sad how they can’t innovate at all. Instead of a long slow Microsoft failure it would be nice to see them turn the ship around. I’m not holding my breath though, and look to them as an example of what not to do with your corporate culture.
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A Peek Into Netflix Queues
“Examine Netflix rental patterns, neighborhood by neighborhood, in a dozen cities.” Truly fascinating interactive graphic. The Mad Men pattern is particularly interesting.
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Victorian Infographics
I love the attention to detail given to these infographics. The craft and time that went into creating them is so apparent. My assumption is it’s because people really thought they would be around for a long time. Unfortunately, it’s all to common for me to feel the stuff I’m working on is just going to be deleted pixels in a few years.
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Height and Happiness: Why Tall People Are Happier
Grin
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The changing face of everyday design
My favorite part of this chart is that they call the 00’s the “Noughties”.
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You Are What You Eat
Mesmerizing.
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Last Rites
Finally got around to reading Mike Davidson’s excellent article about the end of the P.I. I appreciate that he tries to keep it positive and offer ideas and solutions instead of focusing on the past and the demise. It’s sad to see the P.I. go, but it’s important to focus on what’s next.
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Fifty People One Question - Brooklyn
Love the way this is put together and the responses, but would have loved a bit less trying get them in focus.
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A Signature Cadence
Love this post from Rands In Repose and it couldn’t come at a better time. I’m working on finishing up a lot of little details on a web application and it’s great to remember how important these little things are.
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"Prop 8 - The Musical"
Not sure how I missed this but it’s hilarious, informative and a bit sad now that Prop 8 has passed.
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Does the broken windows theory hold online?
In my opinion it does, and I think Kottke’s points about the care and use of the visual design at the end of his post are spot on. He seems to sit on the fence with how much the visual design impacts the broken windows theory. I agree somewhat, a well moderated and active site owner probably does play a greater roll than the visual design in how much trolling and spam comments you get, but the visual design is still a vital component.
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The World’s Most Perfect Script
Happy Hangul Day! “Hangul’s characters are featural: their shapes are related to the sounds they symbolize, each representing a different position of the mouth and tongue.” I had no idea Korean was like this, but damn, that’s really cool.
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A Collection of Olympic Torches
Enthralling interactive graphic from the New York Times showing torch designs throughout the history of the modern games.
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Yay! Fireworks!
“When I was a kid, the mythical fireworks destination was spoken only in hushed tones behind the shadowiest of schoolyard simulated tugboat play-structures: Blackjack Fireworks.” Cabel, I’m right there with you.
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Rumors Barack Obama's campaign shouldn't try to correct.
“Barack Obama has the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE tattooed on his stomach. It’s upside-down, so he can read it while doing sit-ups.”
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The Wide Divide
“In 2004 half of executives earned more than 104 times the average worker’s pay.”
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Pork and Beans
The fantastic new “memetastic” Weezer video.
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Save Polaroid - Save Instant Film
“This site will document the aftermath of this announcement and will serve as a home-base for the effort to convince another company to begin producing the cherished technology that Polaroid has so carelessly abandoned.”
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al-azhar park
Taken by Daniel Hernandez
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Subway Crush
Great idea. Damn, I wish they had this when I was in New York. Too bad there’s no Subway here in Seattle.
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Dept. of Currency: Penny Dreadful
There was a side bit in a West Wing episode about this. The eventual resolution was they couldn’t get rid of the penny because it was still allowed in Illinois toll booths because of Lincoln and Illinois was too important of a primary state.
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Apple Products « Stuff White People Like
I was waiting for when they’d get around to Apple.
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Meet the world
Powerful and incredibly well done infographic “maps”. Somalia was the most surprising to me.
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Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock
“‘Cultural guerrillas’ cleared of lawbreaking over secret workshop in Pantheon.”
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Santas warned 'ho ho ho' offensive to women
“One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use “ho ho ho” because it could frighten children and was too close to “ho”, a US slang term for prostitute.”
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Online couple cheated with each other
Yet still they can’t make it work!
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Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual
Awesome. If anybody is looking to get me an early birthday present I wouldn’t mind one of these manuals.
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In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich
See money doesn’t make you happy.
