This weekend I rented a car that had a push button starter. The first time I heard about push button starters, I thought they were some kind of gimmick, but after driving a car with one for a few days I figured out which problem they were designed to solve.
Back in the day, you had [...]
Scott Rosenberg: Give us each day our daily campaign call. The Presidential campaigns hold daily conference calls with reporters to try to manage the news cycle. Dave Winer is working to post the audio of those calls so we can all listen in. Great project. Bzip2 mini-HOWTO: Using bzip with grep. Extremely useful shell script if [...]
Tags: · design, games, links, politics, transparency, unix, World of Warcraft
Roger L Kay: Apple’s Icarus Effect. Linked as a reminder to avoid anything written by Roger L Kay. Adam Sternbergh: Why White People Like ‘Stuff White People Like’. Surprisingly thoughtful analysis. WSJ.com: The Week That Shook Wall Street: Inside the Demise of Bear Stearns Elizabeth Spires in Slate: Why the Fed had to bail out Bear Stearns [...]
Tags: · Apple, blogs, business, design, iPhone, links, politics
FP Passport links to an project by Brazilian artist Icaro Doria in which he uses flags as infographics simply by applying a legend to the colors. The United States flag made me chuckle, but some of the African flags hit me right in the gut, the way few other infographics have. If you’re a designer [...]
Not long ago I watched the movie Once, which I recommend highly. The main character, a busker in Dublin, plays a guitar that has large holes worn in it. As it turns out, that guitar is the personal instrument of the actor playing the role, musician Glen Hansard. Then I saw Willie Nelson playing on [...]
Tags: · aesthetics, design