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April 30th, 2010

@dkr Yeah, Ebert did try to claim that Up In The Air was a “serious drama”.

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BAM! Both Terrences pick UW. GO DAWGS.

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The Terrences pick their college, live in 4 minutes: http://highschoolsports.oregonlive.com/ GO UW!

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@lloydi Agreed. It was a work of visual art, which is fine. I’m just much more impressed by traditional cinematography.

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Ebert: 3D is “unsuitable for grown-up films of any seriousness.” Amen. http://www.newsweek.com/id/237110

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April 29th, 2010

@stop I miss the days when a Gaussian Blur qualified as cutting edge graphic design.

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Wow, the CEO of Yahoo made $47 million in compensation last year. Who says that’s an unsexy job?

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Wow, sous vide cooking with a $20 beer cooler: http://bit.ly/d7hldh (via kottke)

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The Battery Flashlight: Pretty cool. I can’t think of another example of a product where the battery is actually part of the user interface.

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Really good tweets from @joehewitt today. Not sure why I wasn’t following him before. Mark as resolved.

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Solitude and Leadership:

Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think.Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people’s ideas, or memorizing a body of information…

Takes a little while to get going, but overall a great article about the virtues of seeking solitude from distractions in order to develop your own original thoughts.

“I think you’ve got a pretty good imagination, despicability-wise!”

“Look Around You - Computer Games”

Can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this BBC series before. Brilliant. Make sure to watch them all. (via daringfireball)

10 New Year’s resolutions for designers:

Do you think Chelsea Clinton asks herself if her mom would understand something complex? No. Because her mom is a badass.

How Doctors Die:

If there is a state of the art of end-of-life care, it is this: death with dignity.

This is the most concise, easily understood article on the perils of end-of-like care in the United States I’ve ever read. It is a must-read, and frankly, a must-heed, in my opinion. (via kottke)

Lost Type Co-op | Browse Fonts:

A nice collection of pay-what-you-will typefaces from Tyler Galpin and Riley Cran.

How to interview a designer with the perfect design exercise:

These sorts of tests are common for engineering hires, but it’s nice to see an example of a good design-oriented one.

Jessica Hische's Lovely Blog:

Embarrassed I had never seen this until today. Lovely work all around. (via drawar)

This recently unearthed video of Steve Jobs at work during the early days of NeXT is a remarkable look inside how he ran meetings, how he created culture at his startups, and how others — like Joanna Hoffman around the 11 minute mark — called B.S. on his reality distortion field. It’s also remarkable in that it reveals Jobs to be a man who picks carrots in pressed work shirts.

Paper Birds by Diana Beltran Herrera

View.js — A simple, lightweight, jQuery photo viewer for the web

The Republican Clown College by WMxdesign. These are so great. Make sure to check out the whole set.

BuiltWith: Web Technology Usage Statistics:

Sometimes when you are deciding on technologies to use on a new site (e.g. jQuery vs. YUI or MS SQL vs. MySQL) it’s instructive to examine what everyone else is doing. BuiltWith has an incredible amount of trending data to help you out in that regard. Very, very cool.

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design:

Lots of good thinking here. No solutions, but a nice reminder that two-dimensional touch interfaces are transitional, not permanent.