June 2009
36 posts
Anything goes — whatever your age — as long as you... →
Feist - L’Amour ne dure pas toujours (Let It Die,...
“Disregard anything I said about a tiger.”
– E-mails from an Asshole (via nevver)
Dieter Rams' 10 Design Commandments
1. Good Design is innovative
2. Good Design makes a product useful
3. Good Design is aesthetic
4. Good Design helps a product be understood
5. Good Design is unobtrusive
6. Good Design is honest
7. Good Design is durable
8. Good Design is thorough to the last detail
9. Good Design is concerned with environment
10. Good Design is as little design as possible
Read more & watch Dieter...
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“What’s more important, true love or fashion?”
– Love and Other Disasters (via biancarocksout)
Numbers are making their way into the smallest crevices of our lives. We have pedometers in the soles of our shoes and phones that can post our location as we move around town. We can tweet what we eat into a database and subscribe to Web services that track our finances. There are sites and programs for monitoring mood, pain, blood sugar, blood pressure, heart rate, cognitive alacrity,...
Peaches, Lose You
M83 - Run into Flowers
[via innonate]
Each of us has a magnificent hive of billions of neurons in our head, joined to each other by trillions of connections. The human brain is arguably the most complex organ in the natural world. And yet studies on mind wandering are showing that we find it difficult to stay focused for more than a few minutes on even the easiest tasks, despite the fact that we make mistakes whenever we drift away.
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The All-American Back From Japan - NYTimes.com →
WatchFrom beck.com, a new project called ‘Record Club.’ Check out the first result of the project - Velvet Underground & Nico ‘Sunday Morning.’
I'd shell out the $1000+.
and succumb to being influenced by my “seating-obsessed” mother for this chair.
Knoll’s new “Generation” chair is designed for movement - for a generation of people who move while they sit instead of simply sitting. Whether we’re reaching for our phones or twisting to talk to others, this chair can move with you. Not to mention, Knoll has stayed true to...
“Convenience is hugely attractive in organizations because it is easy to defend...”
– Seth Godin (via jeremywatt)
“We found 86 shoes in the den and a further 32 in a nearby quarry.”
– Rudolf Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt of Föhren, Germany, enumerating to Spiegel Online evidence against a fox accused of stealing over 100 shoes in the West German town. The vixen’s nickname among locals: Imelda.
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“Of course the game is fundamentally flawed. One never actually knows if players...”
– Arthur Phillips, Prague
I just received the following email
and almost vomited. Just know I have yet to click on the link… and seeing that the only time I’ve ever cried at work was over a mouse running around, I don’t plan on it.
Subject: Laura, don’t click on this link
Seriously. You will NOT like what you see… http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8092921.stm MAN FOUND DEAD MOUSE IN MALT LOAF A man got the...
“Burnout is a psychological response to “long-term exhaustion and diminished...”
– A List Apart: Articles: Burnout
(via aja:mikehudack)
“If one more person in this town comes up to me and tells me the shit that...”
– Dina Manzo, Real Housewives of New Jersey
Have I told you lately
about how much I love The Real Housewives of New Jersey? No? Well, now I will. I love it, love it.
“And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the...”
– Gregory Macguire, Wicked
“There was, in that small space, the extreme austerity of an almost empty mind...”
– Elliot Perlman, Seven Types Of Ambiguity
