October 2011
22 posts
“Write, and find the voice, and then when you’ve found it, print it out and stick it up over your computer and look at it any time you’re in doubt. Let one good paragraph tell you how your writing should sound.”
—Thinking about NaNoWriMo | Nick Harkaway (via harkaway)
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Creating Community Environments: Seismological Storytelling →
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I must admit, I’m not really into architecture or landscape design. Sure, I can get into these things if there’s a good story behind it or a personal history I can relate to, but they aren’t things that I normally gravitate towards — which is why I was very surprised to find and be interested in…
Blog | The Noun Project: Iconathon Symbol Suite is Here! →
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A little over two months ago we set off on a cross-country design tour with Code for America and hundreds of passionate volunteers with the goal to create new civic minded symbols for the public domain. After countless hours of designing and refining from volunteers all over the country, we…
UTM: Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinate System
A practical cartographer’s reference to help calculate location. Learn more about the Universal Transverse Mercator System.
"You can’t freeze-frame your face *and* move forward." →
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“This business will drop-kick you the moment you have a crinkle near your eye. But you can’t freeze-frame your face and move forward.
You also can’t Botox away that look in your eyes that says, ‘Honey, I’ve seen it all.’ And why would you want to? All the fun women have been around the block. They’re the ones with stories to tell. They’ve made mistakes that will make your jaw drop and make you feel like you’re not the only klutz in town. In fact, I don’t want to sit next to you at a dinner party unless (a) your heart’s been broken or (b) you’ve been in jail. And if your heart was broken while you were in jail, I won’t leave your side.”
— Sherri Sheppard, Photoshop Til You Drop, More, May 2010 (via harpyphoto)
“And this is the essential broader point—as a programmer you must have a series of wins, every single day. It is the Deus Ex Machina of hacker success. It is what makes you eager for the next feature, and the next after that. And a large team is poison to small wins. The nature of large teams is such that even when you do have wins, they come after long, tiresome and disproportionately many hurdles. And this takes all the wind out of them. Often when I shipped a feature it felt more like relief than euphoria.”
—Rethrick Construction: The Mythical Man Month (via buzz)
“Creative people are basically this 50-50 blend of ego and insecurity. From an ego standpoint, you think you’re hot shit, but really, deep down … you go, ‘I don’t know if I’m good enough. I’ll try to make it better tomorrow.’”
—Lee Clow
