Justin Williams on how you shouldn’t be a dick just because you’re on the Internet, or how not to provide feedback to just about anyone who has poured in heart and soul into their work: Here is a tip for all the non-developers out there. When you email your favorite developer with a feature request [...]
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Rules for computing happiness
Alex Payne’s Rules for Computing Happiness: Use as little software as possible. Use software that does one thing well. Do not use software that does many things poorly…
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Pulitzer-Winning Photojournalist Slams World Press Photo Awards
Pulitzer-winning photojournalist, and winner of several World Press Photo Awards (19751, 19862) slams the selection of the 2009 World Press Photo winners: The World Press Photo of the Year is stunning for its lack of content or any other journalistic values. The jury’s selection is yet another setback for a profession that is already in [...]
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Missing the point
Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov muses about chess and computers: The moment I became the youngest world chess champion in history at the age of twenty-two in 1985, I began receiving endless questions about the secret of my success and the nature of my talent. Instead of asking about Sicilian Defenses, journalists wanted to know [...]
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A Classroom Divided
Watch A Classroom Divided Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. Every student should go through this lesson.
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Things Development Status
Interesting UI and metaphor design for the development status page of Things. Bad news is that there’s no end in sight for Over-The-Air Sync.
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Beggars flying private jets
Memo to U.S. companies seeking a bailout: When visiting Congress to ask for money, leave the private jets at home.
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Why many photo-sharing sites and communities stink
Petteri Sulonen is right on the money: I used to participate on Photosig, but I learned to hate it. It exerts a huge pressure of blandification — shooting for the lowest common denominator. Flowers, bug macros, anal-retentive “figure studies,” golden-hour landscapes, pouty soft-focus “glamour” ladies, you name it — every photographic cliché ever invented is [...]
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Double standards
Jason Panthera on the government’s rationale not to repeal the 377A because a majority of Singaporeans did not want to. Governments are elected to do what is right, not just what is most popular – otherwise, we wouldn’t have taxes, we wouldn’t have Electronic Road Pricing and there would be no National Service. I wasn’t [...]
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Relieve your Windows Experience
Right here. Well existing Windows users shouldn’t torture themselves further, I guess.
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