January 2012
4 posts
“From a user-experience standpoint, these games display dark patterns, which I...”
– The Zynga Abyss - Technology - The Atlantic
“Solitude has long been associated with creativity and transcendence. “Without...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
“But in others it leaps and soars, and makes me want to revisit the finely hewn...”
– Warren Ellis » REAMDE
December 2011
2 posts
“I wonder sometimes if Facebook is the America Online of today, with roughly the...”
– inessential.com
November 2011
4 posts
Google is driving me nuts →
Google search is royally sucking for me lately. The main culprit seems to be their switching from an AND to an OR for each search term in the query. I hope these tips can restore some utility.
“You might almost think that the whole scheme had been cooked up by a bunch of...”
– http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/
October 2011
6 posts
“1:37 exists for you. As a citizen of a technologically advanced culture, replete...”
– http://m.npr.org/story/140718434?url=/blogs/13.7/2011/09/23/140718434/time-crisis-why-you-don-t-care-about-today-s-equinox
1 tag
“What the “energy” mechanic does is limit the player’s time. This is how you know...”
– who killed videogames? (a ghost story)
“By making computers personal and putting the internet in our pockets, he made...”
– President Obama on the Passing of Steve Jobs
September 2011
3 posts
August 2011
5 posts
“Increasingly freshmen are showing up on campus without such basic life skills as...”
– http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/spoiled-brats.html
“If you live and work in the professional communities of Boston or Seattle or...”
– http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/can-the-middle-class-be-saved/8600/3/?single_page=true
“I’d rather be a one-man party and just vote for what I want on every issue. I’m...”
– http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/08/the-10-commandments-of-the-american-religion/
July 2011
6 posts
“The crapware. The stickers. The anti-virus software problem where the cure is...”
– http://m.cultofmac.com/how-the-editor-of-windows-magazine-became-an-apple-fanboy/105882
“Do movie watchers of the future get to study a film over and over like we used...”
– lonelysandwich: No touching
“I’ve gone back and forth on whether managers should code and my opinion...”
– http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/07/12/bored_people_quit.html
“During the 20th century, the greatest danger to European stability was Germany’s...”
– http://www.lrb.co.uk/2011/06/30/john-lanchester/once-greece-goes
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
4 posts
“The more I treasure a tool, the less likely I am to use it. I always scribble...”
– An interview with Frank Chimero
“If something is slightly out of line, our brains assume there’s a reason...”
– Clean Up Your Mess - A Guide to Visual Design for Everybody
April 2011
5 posts
“(Did you know that when she had her first meetings with the AOL staff, she...”
– Leaving in a Huff
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
4 posts
January 2011
11 posts
“Sounds to me like they elevated him right out of the building.”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: The WSJ on Google’s Management Change