February 2012
10 posts
“Pure intellectual heft is like someone who can bench-press a thousand pounds....”
– Paul Zeitz, Broad Institute Director Finds Power in Numbers - NYTimes.com
“Conventional wisdom pegs [New York Knicks point guard Jeremy] Lin’s recent...”
– As a casual basketball watcher, I don’t know if Kevin Clark’s analysis is accurate or not. But I’ve gotta say: the man can write.
Read the full story about Jeremy Lin’s Success Provides Spark For New York Knicks - WSJ.com
“If I turn into the street, I am followed by a multitude. If I stay at home, the...”
– Charles Dickens, one of the first celebrity authors, 1842
“Time and time again, creative people are given two pieces of advice: (1) Listen...”
– On Criticism, Cynicism & Sharpening Your Gut Instinct
January 2012
16 posts
“Advertisers deploying QR codes are like people in 1900 wanting transportation to...”
– “QR Codes Are the Roller-Skating Horses of Advertising” — Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic
“You can say it’s in two all you want, but why is the harmonic rhythm so not in...”
– Jeremy Denk is best known in certain circles as a concert pianist and music instructor. But man, the guy can write.
From “How to Prepare for a Concert”
Give me something to read, MacDiva
I’ve been fooling around with Pinterest, and while I get its greatness, I also feel like I’m spreading myself too thin by being there.
Nevertheless, my book recommendations seemed to be popular. And I’ve been looking for an easy way to replicate what I’ve started on Pinterest on a site I already use.
Thank goodness for Otlet’s Shelf, a Tumblr theme that makes quick...
We Are The 0.6% →
parislemon:
Hard to pick the most ridiculous element of these updated numbers.
Is it that just 0.6% of Android users have Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) two months after it launched?
Is it that of the remaining 99.4%, only 55% are upgraded to Gingerbread (2.3), which came out over a year ago?
Is it that over 30% are stuck on Froyo (2.2) which is 20 months old?
Is it that 8.5% (something like 10...
The Best Time to Buy Anything in 2012 →
Useful!
December 2011
8 posts
TIMEMAPS →
tulpinspiration:
TIMEMAPS visualizes how the map of the Netherlands would look if it would be scaled proportionally to the travel times (by train) between cities. Arjan Scherpenisse was asked by the designer of the concept, Vincent Meertens of graphsic, to transform his manually crafted PDF files into a real-time, interactive visualization. TIMEMAPS has been exhibited at the Graduation...
Joe Spurr: jQuery Paragraph Permalinks →
joespurr:
Want to make your site more citable? Offer paragraph permalinks so users can easily reference specific sections of your content.
Interesting idea. Looks simple to implement. Get the CSS & JQuery from Joe.
This is one of the coolest appropriations I’ve seen in a while — deaf artist Christine Sun Kim reclaims sound, turning it into a physical, visual experience.
Todd Selby x Christine Sun Kim via Nowness.com
November 2011
12 posts
Per Se's $685 Menu Explained Graphically
Lo-fi approach FTW!
pricehike:
Here is a graphical representation of what dinner for one at Per Se will cost if you order the various supplements; see our previous post explaining how the menu can rise to $685 per person. We here at The Price Hike aren’t too familiar with all the fancy functions on Excel, so we did a little proverbial back-of-the-envelope math. So enjoy our signature GUMBY...
http://google.co.uk →
Today’s Google Doodle for Europe is just awesome.
“I don’t want to hang out with other programmers. I want to hang out with Jay Z....”
– Tyler on hackathons (via david)
Adventures (in code) - Alastair Coote: Where the... →
alastaircoote:
I had some time to kill at the NYC BigApps Hackathon, so I started browsing through the datasets available and toyed around with a few ideas. Before I knew it I had half of an app.
That half an app became NYC Taxi Tracker. It tracks your taxi ride and compares it with a route planner to see whether your taxi is charging you more than it should.
Nicely done! And useful. :)
Timeless →
matthewb:
Jeremy Keith takes Ian Hickson to task over the removal of the time element from the HTML5 spec:
In this case the editor’s unilateral decision is fundamentally at odds with the most important HTML design principle, the priority of constituencies.
Between the Bars
thenewinquiry:
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s On Booze, from the New Directions Pearl Series
by Jessica Ferri
Unless one has the time and money to turn writing into a glamorous and leisurely profession, being a writer can be a thankless pursuit. The profession can drive one to drink copious amounts of alcohol, regardless of his or her talents. “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink,...
October 2011
22 posts
“Write, and find the voice, and then when you’ve found it, print it out and stick...”
– Thinking about NaNoWriMo | Nick Harkaway (via harkaway)