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June 30th, 2010

@simonbarber Yep. Both Tumblr and Posterous are free, but I think @virb is aiming to provide more of a site platform than a blog platform.

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@gb Why thank you! What a kind compliment.

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@brad @simmy Yep. I hope that a large army of people will pay $10 a month for a beautifully designed website. If not, I hate the human race.

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I hope the new @virb succeeds. So tough to tell though. I thought v1 and v2 would catch on.

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@billbrandon Interesting. I wonder if that includes returns. I can’t imagine buying one and not returning within a few days.

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@sourjayne Yep. As in least number of days from “can now buy it” to “can no longer buy it”.

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Wow, the Microsoft Kin is dead is less than two months after it went on sale. Is that a record for a Microsoft product?

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June 29th, 2010

How to make a Lost Cat poster if you’re a graphic designer and you don’t like doing free work for people: http://j.mp/9W9l27

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How to make a Lost Cat poster if you’re a graphic designer and you don’t like doing free work for people. (via jimray)

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@gruber Just don’t hit him with any line drives in the 9th and he’s yours within the week.

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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.