December 2009
26 posts
Ever-increasing choice was supposed to mean the... →
tumbledore:
“Perhaps the best explanation of why this might be so was offered in 1963. In “Formal Theories of Mass Behaviour”, William McPhee noted that a disproportionate share of the audience for a hit was made up of people who consumed few products of that type. (Many other studies have since reached the same conclusion.) A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not...
“Anthony’s quote of the week: “…a little less Helen Keller...”
– Twitter / Craig Stoll: Anthony’s quote of the wee …
Cowgirl Creamery's Library of Cheese →
“I think the anger stems from the fact that we’re living in the United States,...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : AT&T: Chokehold is “irresponsible and pointless”
Amen.
“The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) has joined together with the Creative...”
– Design Challenge :: Interaction10
Registration closes tomorrow, December 15th. Be sure to sign up if you’re interested!
“Point of the talk was, when you’re lucky enough to create a smash hit product —...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T
In a perfect world, AT&T would be embarrassed by the comments that Ralph de la Vega made this week. But they’re not. And the network’s not going to improve anytime soon, either: as Fake...
The choice is not the choice you think
rickwebb:
Firstly, it seemed so obvious to me that looking for someone ” to be on site because the work is intense” is a really dumb idea. But I was struck by how often I hear it. So I decided to take a moment and walk through, in my own head, why I viscerally loathe that line of thinking, even though it probably makes perfect sense in the head of the person thinking it. And it struck me: they...
fluorescenthill demo reel →
Damn fine reel. These are the folks that did the New Pornographer’s “Myriad Harbour” video that I love so much.
tedr:
“No news, no press, no Davos, no suit-and-tie fraudsters, no fools. I need to withdraw as immediately as possible into the Platonic tranquility of my library, work on my next book, find solace in science and philosophy, and mull the next step. I will also structure trades with my Universa friends to bet on the next mistake by Bernanke, Summers, and Geithner. I will only (briefly) emerge...
“Tim Nice-but-Dim (who, like so many of these Aspy Rails kids, has no clue of...”
– Aaaaaand Dean’s a dick again. (via nickdouglas)
He may be a dick, but he has correctly identified the subset of the Rails community that wades into enormous problems assuming the solution can be coded in 24 hours. I liked the turn of phrase so much I registered AspyRailsKids.com
“Rand has this extremist, intolerant, dogmatic antigovernment stance,” says...”
– Does Ayn Rand Hurt the Libertarian Cause? - WSJ.com
