January 2011
“The biggest design decision I’ve made is more of a continuous philosophy: do as...”
– Rands In Repose: Interview: Marco Arment (via msg)
@johnv at our office showed us the value of producing features/services within our impact horizon. If we determine a project will take longer to launch then we can guarentee it will have an affect on our business then we do not do it. Turns out you...
clientsfromhell:
Client: “My site is down. What did you do?”
Me: “Well, I haven’t done anything in a while. Can you get to Google.com?
Client: “No. Why did you take Google down too?”
“You’ve got a bad case of being over there. The only cure is being over here.”
– I Wrote This For You: The Distance To Me (via kari-shma)
When Gifted and Middle Ground Students Aren't...
novicephoenix:
“I like to feel needed by my students. I feel proud when my students understand a difficult concept.”
“I like to feel as if I positively affected my students’ learning and growth.”
Are sentiments that most teachers would agree with. Unfortunately, a lot of teachers (including myself) focus on the students that are most outwardly struggling, and as a result we forget to pay...
“When someone demands to know how we’re going to replace newspapers, they are...”
– Clay Shirky (via dominickbrady)
“The alveolar stops English /d/, /t/ are often retroflex [ɖ], [ʈ], especially in...”
– Indian English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“One of my abiding memories is being halfway up a mountain and watching two men...”
– John Rhys-Davies - Biography
“However, the allophone phenomenon becomes obvious when speakers switch...”
– Hindi–Urdu phonology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“So we spent the summer in India and settled on a number of 15 kids, maximum. We...”
– The Feministing Five: Julia Neubauer
“Until the salve can be applied, I implore you: tame your ego, chill out with the...”
– Sorry, Scoble, Quora is not your playground « The Quora Review
“This is not really your fault: Quora’s auto-follow logic was not built for edge...”
– Sorry, Scoble, Quora is not your playground « The Quora Review
“This will not be an easy column to write. I am about to put down 1,200 words in...”
– I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat (but farm it right) | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
“The US government has previously been a supporter of Mr Mubarak’s regime. But...”
– Egypt protests: America’s secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising - Telegraph
“Mozilla’s mistake here is to associate low usage with user dis-interest. If...”
– blog · RSS Is Dying Being Ignored, and You Should Be Very Worried
Stephanie Booth's answer to Why are bios written...
Writing in the third person makes the bio look more objective and official — more “true”. When you write in the first person, it sounds more like a personal point of view on something. Why are bios written in third person?
“For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide...”
– CQ (via kateoplis)
See also, How to save a friend from the brink.
(via jayparkinsonmd)
tedr says: Devastating!
(via tedr)
clientsfromhell:
[I was contracted to do the design of a brochure of which, I was told, there would be 5000 copies.]
Client: “The art on the brochure is being cut off around all sides, and a big white border is surrounding the whole piece. I am surprised you let this happen, fix immediately.”
Me: “I was told that your print vendor can handle full bleed. Can you give me their phone number so...
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung...”
– C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)
Like or RSS
johntropea:
When you think of it; Facebook is a mini-web.
You browse people and pages and click a “follow” button or a “like” button.
Much more dumbed down than clicking on an RSS icon.
And much more dumbed down again as you don’t have to know about having an RSS Reader eg. choosing one like Google Reader from the hundreds on the market.
Instead with Facebook, the place you find and...
“Quora need not display the number of votes for each answer, and can replace it...”
– How Quora Can Avoid Becoming A Popularity Contest by @ScepticGeek
“Silicon Valley is again drinking its own Kool-Aid; it is looking at the world...”
– Why I Don’t Buy the Quora Hype
“The answer is simple: I think that Quora will continue to be an excellent...”
– Why I Don’t Buy the Quora Hype
Stephanie Booth's answer to Managing friends and...
Don’t manage them (seriously). Treat Twitter as an open forum which anybody can read/follow — and never look at your follower list again. Start following new people when you feel a strong desire to do so, once you are already actively using Twitter (when starting, I recommend to follow generously/on a whim). Don’t take the trouble to establish explicit criteria: go with your gut....
“Then there’s the question of salt intake and blood pressure. Well, turns out,...”
– Don’t Turn Around, The Killer is in Town | mirepoix.org
“Millions in deaths? Salt kills millions, Smoking kills millions, Alcohol kills...”
– Don’t Turn Around, The Killer is in Town | mirepoix.org
On a Phone, Interfering With Flight Safety -... →
stoweboyd:
Before deciding whether to allow passengers to use phones before takeoff, several airlines conducted ground tests to see if cellphones would interfere with systems. At American Airlines, people dialed cellphones from out-of-service planes parked at various airports. “They found no interaction with the aircraft instruments on any aircraft type,” said Tim Smith, a spokesman for...
G2 Manual focus distance indicator?!?!: Micro Four... →
“So go ahead, set your iPhone free with our iPhone 4 Liberation Kit! Rid your...”
– Apple’s Diabolical Plan to Screw Your iPhone « iFixit Blog
Will Quora fix the usability issue with the "add...
When clicking on “add comment” on an answer that has no comments, another link “view all 0 comments” appears, and the “add answer” box is shifted down. This misleads the user into thinking the answer box is the comment box, and probably leads to many “answers” which were in fact intended as “comments on answers”. (To get the real comment...
“Comment faire le deuil de son animal?”
– Animal deuil - Page d’accueil
The complexity of influence, copying, and biases
johntropea:
EXCERPT from Forget the A-List after all - Guy Kawaski
….based on the work of Duncan Watts of Yahoo Research, is that the theory that a select few “key influencers” matter more than “the rest of us” when it comes to viral and word-of-mouth marketing campaigns is flawed. Said Watts:
“It [achieving marketing success through influentials] just doesn’t work. A rare bunch of cool people...