Burberry Prorsum does Spimes
I probably won’t be able to afford this.
An ode to iteration
I love this car.
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Twitter Digest for Week Ending 2013-02-17
- "The watch also appears to tell time." http://t.co/NNYwqKPo #
- RT @doingitwrong: The linkrot calibration page. A site consisting only of representative embeds/links/standards. A still life of digital … #
- RT @design: The #MadMen era of Twitter Design? http://t.co/UIOM27K0 #
- RT @paleofuture: I want a Tesla just so Elon Musk can look at where I drive every day and hopefully email me restaurant recommendations #
- RT @doingitwrong: Full circle. Writers are using computers as a metaphor to explain cars. http://t.co/TqtCdqbQ #
- RT @annegalloway: Interesting @thesiswhisperer post on academic assholes, but I think it glosses over gendered aspects of the issue http … #
- RT @jeansnow: Trailer for new Ghost in the Shell series, music by Cornelius. http://t.co/TCEZB8Tq #
- RT @rstevens: Obama just name-checked Apple and 3D printing. I guess my interests actually *are* mainstream. #
John E. Karlin, Human Factors Pioneer, Dies at 94
John E. Karlin was instrumental in shaping the telephone as we know it:
An early experiment involved the telephone cord. In the postwar years, the copper used inside the cords remained scarce. Telephone company executives wondered whether the standard cord, then about three feet long, might be shortened. Mr. Karlin’s staff stole into colleagues’ offices every three days and covertly shortened their phone cords, an inch at time. No one noticed, they found, until the cords had lost an entire foot.
John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way to All-Digit Dialing, Dies at 94 – NYTimes.com.
See also: From rotary to Siri: How the phone numbering system came and went
Facebook is the bathroom door that resists all efforts at locking…
Mat Honan in a piece on Flickr’s revival:
Facebook is a continuing nightmare of privacy disasters. It’s the bathroom door that resists all efforts at locking, swinging open again and again while you’re trying to poop.
So, uhm… This is how Microsoft imagines people using a Surface Pro? That would actually almost kinda explain this whole mess. (via)
Twitter Digest for Week Ending 2013-02-10
- "Somehow, Google […] thinks these porn sites are the most relevant results for any numerical reductio ad absurdum." http://t.co/EnsYpJRR #
- RT @waxpancake: Peter Molyneux’s new iOS game is much more exciting than Curiosity. http://t.co/Jc6yAVK5 #
- RT @alexpalex: Trolling OK Cupid with nothing but horse_ebooks quotes in your quiver: http://t.co/bHsiY4YC #
Explaining Social Media to my Friends
One year ago: “It’s like Twitter, but, you know, for pictures.”
Today: “It’s like Instagram, but, you know, for words.”
Physical Multitouch Gestures
Gabriele Meldaikyte transformed five fundamental gestures of today’s multitouch interfaces – tap, scroll, flick, swipe, pinch – into a series of physical sculptures to preserve them beyond today’s platforms and devices.
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Cryptofloricon
Inspired by traditional Victorian floriography, writer and artist Ed Saperia developed a series of over 200 “flower codes”, allowing you to express anything from a simple romantic gesture (“I adore you”) to a loaded question (“Someone else?”) or even an insult (“Creep!”) using nothing but a few common flowers.
