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alexluko: Some art I did inspired by Trollhunter. It was...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:31:54 -0500

alexluko:

Some art I did inspired by Trollhunter. It was surprisingly awesome!

This week’s Comic Book Playlist: The Flash

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:56:13 -0500

This week’s Comic Book Playlist: The Flash

"They also engaged in an early 20th-century version of “hooking up.” With women earning little,..."

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:34:06 -0500

““They also engaged in an early 20th-century version of “hooking up.” With women earning little, “treating” was a key to relationships: Men paid for dinner and theater tickets with the expectation that women would reciprocate with sexual favors, as women extracted as much they could from their dates—hats, shoes, jewelry—while trying to maintain their respectability by flirting, even petting, but not going all the way. This was a high-stakes game, in an era when birth control was not legally available. But this new social life also created sexual norms that continue to inform what women and men expect of each other.””

- Why I prefer to go dutch.

(Singles in the City, WSJ)

virtualtonks: Iconic images in 3D [x]

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:07:35 -0500

virtualtonks:

Iconic images in 3D [x]

"Sometimes we create amazing things. Sometime we create garbage. The point is to keep creating."

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:16:33 -0500

““Sometimes we create amazing things. Sometime we create garbage. The point is to keep creating.””

- Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind

This week’s comic book playlist: Black Bolt. Special...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:00:48 -0500

This week’s comic book playlist: Black Bolt.

Special dedication to V.

"User experience (UX) is now becoming a critical point in customer engagement in order to compete for..."

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:42:00 -0500

“User experience (UX) is now becoming a critical point in customer engagement in order to compete for attention now and in the future. For without thoughtful UX, consumers meander without direction, reward, or utility. And their attention, and ultimately loyalty, follows.”

- Brian Solis, Why User Experience is Critical to Customer Relationships

Prosepina

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:35:33 -0500

Prosepina

emmawelles: XOXO! Why I love Emma Welles.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:05:11 -0500

emmawelles:

XOXO!

Why I love Emma Welles.

Be Mine

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:54:25 -0500

Be Mine

City As Egg

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:50:49 -0500

City As Egg

helloinstrument: We get to craft a lot of nice UX here at...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:41:57 -0500

helloinstrument:

We get to craft a lot of nice UX here at Instrument, but it’s difficult to show, since a lot of it is touchscreen, iPad, or interactive kiosk work out in the real world. So we made this reel to feature some of our favorite UX projects from the past few years.

Featured clients: Google, Umpqua Bank, Nike, XBOX and more.

-ZB

Oh hi there Instrument. That is some damn fine UX.

Un-Bearable

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:04:07 -0500

Un-Bearable

UrbanEars

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:58:00 -0500

UrbanEars

Therapy

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:49:22 -0500

Therapy

I guess I should work out more.

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:25 -0500

I guess I should work out more.

"Eric Schmidt once quipped that ‘the Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that..."

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:11:14 -0500

“Eric Schmidt once quipped that ‘the Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand.’ To a large extent, this is also true of Google. Even its founders—and Page and Brin must have the best understanding of the company’s inner workings—must be profoundly confused about Google’s impact on privacy, scholarship, communication, and power. It is for this reason that writing about Google presents an almost insurmountable challenge. To understand the company and its impact, one needs to have a handle on computer science, many branches of philosophy (from epistemology to ethics), information science, cyberlaw, media studies, sociology of knowledge, public policy, economics, and even complexity theory. The ultimate analysis of Google and its impact on the world still remains to be written.”

- Evgeny Morozov in “Don’t Be Evil,” The New Republic review of Steven Levy and Siva Vaidhyanathan’s Google books. (via mediology)

"Most days, I feel like most internet writers and editors are engaging in the kind of vapid..."

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:07:38 -0500

““Most days, I feel like most internet writers and editors are engaging in the kind of vapid conversation you find at parties that is neither enlightening or entertaining, and where everyone is shouting and no one is saying anything. I don’t have time for this.””

- Brian Lam, Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic

"Informationally, we are becoming lard-asses. In the pageview and ratings driven media economy, too..."

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:04:22 -0500

“Informationally, we are becoming lard-asses. In the pageview and ratings driven media economy, too much of the content these days is designed to be just like junk food to quickly boost quantifiable viewership. If you make content that is the intellectual equivalent of gummy bears, your site will appear to grow quickly.”

- Brian Lam, Happiness takes a little Magic (Wirecutter)

"The French, I found, seem to have a whole different framework for raising kids. When I asked French..."

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:49:47 -0500

““The French, I found, seem to have a whole different framework for raising kids. When I asked French parents how they disciplined their children, it took them a few beats just to understand what I meant. “Ah, you mean how do we educate them?” they asked. “Discipline,” I soon realized, is a narrow, seldom-used notion that deals with punishment. Whereas “educating” (which has nothing to do with school) is something they imagined themselves to be doing all the time.””

- Why French Parents are Superior, WSJ