November 2011
1 post
October 2011
4 posts
September 2011
2 posts
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July 2011
2 posts
“Writers must read. And to become a really good writer, one must also open up the...”
– Randy Murray
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
6 posts
“The homepage on my web browser is Yahoo, which I’m told it shouldn’t be, but...”
– Aaron Sorkin on his reading habits, and why elitism is good for journalism (and everything else.) Read the rest of his Media Diet at The Atlantic Wire (via theatlantic)
Compare and Contrast
Lots of buzz in gaming about this post about gamers and bias and privilege and all that jazz. It’s not a terrible post, and if the fact that sexism (and other isms) are a problem in the world at large is news to you, it’s probably a useful read.
It was a let down for me, and it took a minute to put my finger on why. While it’s framed in the context of gaming, it’s really...
April 2011
5 posts
The Atlantic: First Drafts, Ctd: Limits →
theatlantic:
hornreviews writes
My creative process relies on constraints: of medium, of deadline, and of my own limited skill. Without these constraints I don’t know how I would be able to start or finish anything.
I make book reviews in comic strip form, so my word count is limited by principles of…
Password Gorilla →
onethingwell:
A cross-platform password manager/generator.
“When people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the...”
– Austin Kleon (via marco)
March 2011
5 posts
“Yeah, I pay more for Warcraft, then I’m going to end up paying for the...”
– Paying for Information - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic
I think the New York Times is a pretty good paper, and when it really drills into things, its often quite useful and insightful. It can also be as dumb and useless as any other news organization out there, and it gets no free...
February 2011
2 posts
Someone is passive aggressive on the Internet.
Wait….
Minimal Mac: Airplane Mode →
minimalmac:
I recently had lunch with a dear friend whom I had not seen in a while. This friend has a job that places him in a position that is far more important to the organization than even he readily lets on. He is the linchpin for multiple large projects with dozens of internal and external stakeholders…
January 2011
5 posts
“The competition for a Kindle book isn’t the hardcover. The competition is a game...”
– Compared to what? – the domino project
Ann Dupuis, Mother of Indie Games →
Ann Dupuis deserves the gratitude of everyone who creates, publishes, plays, and buys independently published, storytelling-oriented roleplaying games today. As a publisher, author, and designer she took risks early on, way before the advent of the modern online PDF market and Print On Demand made being a game publisher comparatively easy and cheap.
December 2010
2 posts
“As a general rule, assume clumsiness. Picture someone who is moving fast, trying...”
– Don’t Let the Package Distract You from the Message - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review
November 2010
2 posts
The Russians Used a Pencil: The Right Feel for an... →
russianpencil:
In general, iPad styluses follow an incorrect cognitive mapping. The vast majority of them are designed to look and feel like a pen. Why? Writing or drawing on the iPad feels nothing like using a pen or pencil. For one, the fidelity is way too low. Also, it is pretty awkward to rest your palm…
October 2010
3 posts
September 2010
6 posts
The 14 Best Title Cards From 'Batman: The Animated... →
So much style it almost hurts.
Why we need to show female heroes too
dcwomenkickingass:
Here’s a picture by AlissaKiss that says, in my opinion, a lot about why we need to have female heroes represented in logos and ads.
Alissa writes:
This little girl came up to me while I was relaxing off my wonder boots for a moment, and asked me if I knew where Superman was. I told her he was off saving the world but would be back around again. She loooved the shiny...
Why I'm a Democrat
(And what I wish it really meant)
We think it was important that we went to the moon. We think there are things more important than a balance sheet. We believe that opportunity can only be built on a platform of justice. We believe justice is a virtue, a good and honorable thing, not a matter of checking off boxes and filling jail cells. We think America doesn’t simply deserve to lead the...
I realized yesterday’s assessment was actually too generous. The other real reason geeks end up using “disingenuous” a lot is that geeks are very careful not to _lie_ - they will mislead, misdirect, and use VERY SPECIFIC and highly anti-social definitions of words so as to get the effect of lying, but so that if called on their lie, they can plead that they are being attacked,...
August 2010
12 posts
Someone I was talking to observed that geeks are far more likely to use the term disingenuous in their arguments than call someone a liar or the like, and wondered why that is.
I think the answer is pretty simple. We’ assume that if you’re smart enough to know what disingenuous means, you’re smart enough to know that you just tried to pull some bullshit logic to justify your...
Marco.org: A smartphone retrospective →
This is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007:
Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with devices that people thought were pretty cool, but often frustrating and with serious shortcomings and design flaws.
Then this happened:
Other manufacturers had…