It is a very long time ago in a farming town. Andrew, Ben, and Charlie are farmers who live on the same road, who all know and trust each other. Ben has a problem with his tractor one day, and happens to mention it to Andrew. Andrew offers to check it out — he’s fixed […]
Low quality demand, then, means that we buy cheap, but the price is invisibly steep: it ignites a global race to the bottom, what a complexity economist might call a dynamic equilibrium of negative consumption externalities, consumption that results not just in joblessness but a loss in the quality of jobs. […]
Now that I’m settled in SF, I’ve had some time to practice drumming. For my neighbors’ sake, I have an electronic kit.
I re-realized something about drum fills and wanted to share it with the internet. FYI: Fills are the part where instead of keeping the beat, you hear a whole bunch of notes played all […]
I went out to breakfast yesterday, and ordered eggs benedict. It showed up looking delicious, except the English muffin was slightly burned. I dug in because I was hungry, and when the server came by to see if everything was good, I nodded yes for the same reason. I should have said something, but between […]
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Notes from Jeff Johnson presentation at PARC. He’s from the company UI Wizards Inc
He points out that Shneiderman’s UI Design Guidelines is the classic book, but that the guidelines in it are very “open to interpretation” and it requires a lot of background (like watching users use applications). He thinks there’s also a lot of […]
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Very simple, but very effective. Cosine, sine, tangents, all that crap is meaningless. But, a simple animation is brilliant.
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Seeing fancy, high end brands running ads on The Pirate Bay is kind of like genuine Louis Vutton bags being hocked at a flea market. I wonder if Helmsley’s dog is in charge of buying online advertising.
Or, maybe people who pirate media use their unspent money to stay at high end hotels.
If this doesn’t make sense, you’ve probably never had to browse hundreds of fonts.
Via Typophile
(Hint: the subject of this post contains all 26 letters in the English language)
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On the limitations of listening to customers…
“When we were working on the program we asked our current Explorer owners, ‘Do you guys need the ability to go off road’ and 100% said ‘Absolutely, yes,” said a Jay Ward, a Ford spokesman. “When we asked them, ‘How often do you go off road?’ 70% said ‘Never.”
Ford […]
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Given my fascination with things like data and cars, I was of course interested in this example of phantom traffic jams.
Also, there’s a bunch of other cool things from the website that I found this video from.
The original traffic-related article that linked to the video
Explorations of real-world traffic
Pictures of Math (some of them are a […]
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