October 2008
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“The more specific a design idea is, the greater its appeal is likely to be....”
– 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (via danw) (via slantback)
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boot
ratcliffe-lee:
say your computer decides not to boot in any way except for in safe mode.
say you own a 2 Gb flash drive and have never backed up the 100Gb of data on your hard drive.
what do you save? your college essays or your photographic life history?
photos all the way. all my college essays do for me these days is remind me about the stuff i don’t need to write about ever...
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Barack Obama | Change We Need | Take Election... →
i’m going to preface this comment with the facts that this campaign has been probably one of the greatest executions i’ve seen in my lifetime and i’ll certainly be voting for Senator Obama either before or after my work day on nov. 4th.
however, the devil is in the details.
wouldn’t it have made sense to send this note out at least two weeks in advance (what most...
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Acclaimed author Tony Hillerman dies at 83 →
“Skinwalkers” was one of the very few required reading books i enjoyed from my college years.
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“He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.”
– Hemingway’s Twitter (via riazm)
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“If you’re cold, put on a sweater.”
– Garrison Keillor
explaining the way out of our country’s current economic situation, as told during A Prairie Home Companion’s News from Lake Wobegon. October 4th, 2008.
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Obama’s Grandmother and the Risk of Regret →
regret is paralyzing. i’ve seen situations like this play out right in front of my eyes, first-hand. dedication has to be a sliding scale. yes, you’re “in it to win it” but what, exactly, will you win?
“right decisions” are one of life’s biggest challenges.
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Jack Cheng On Permanence →
My personal take is that for any given task, our minds constantly shift between two modes: review and do. Review-mode give us perspective on the big picture and keeps us on track toward reaching our destination. Do-mode is focused on implementation—building, typing, moving pixels and making changes.
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Derek Powazek - Pixish Closing October 31 →
In community-generated media, trust is everything. When you ask for submissions, contributors go through an instant internal calculation: “Do I trust these people with my work?” When your site is brand new, you’ve got no record to rely on. And with more shady “user-generated content” schemes popping up every day, people have their defenses up (as well they should). Our proposition was made even...
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Paraphrase.
I’m a bit restless. I still have a much longer post on why a major local media organization is hamstringing themselves by not making their content direct and accessible. Why it’d behoove them to, why they had a chance to do it right from the beginning, corner the hyperlocal market and probably make a pretty penny all while innovating.
It started to unravel and become disjointed so...
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Dining Out.
I enjoyed dining at the Modern more than I did at Del Posto.
Not just the food. The entire experience as a whole.
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“Obama is deeply grounded in the best aspirations of this country, and we need to...”
– The Chicago Tribune (via urg)
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“Data is almost as good as money, but I don’t don’t know of a single consumer Web...”
– Subtraction 7.1 Beta: A Cloud and a Prayer
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peterbaker:
I’m going to be in NYC for a week...
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So which country has the soundest banking system?... →
Canada has the world’s soundest banking system, closely followed by Sweden, Luxembourg and Australia, a survey by the World Economic Forum has found as financial crisis and bank failures shake world markets…(via financial week)
after living in toronto for a year, i always had a hunch that they knew they were doing something right. maybe i should go back?
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NPR: Planet Money →
from the guys who brought you those TAL episodes everyone is freaking out about. also, equally important, laura conaway (BPP alumnus) is an editor.
lets hope they don’t can this one too.
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Why Really Smart People Disagree On Who Won The... →
great perspective and reasoning why most of your favorite major media outlets are balking on this.
seperately, that wasn’t a debate. it was someone trying to have a conversation with someone else who could only vocalize canned, memorized responses. no original thought process and, quite frankly, an insult to the intelligence, forum and needs of this country and it’s political...