June 2009
32 posts
Codes of the City
sexpigeon:
Baby stroller in apartment building lobby: Cocaine wholesaler.
Pile of Q-tips: Hmong turf.
Broken suitcase: Dead dad.
Discarded bike lock: Unlicensed dentist.
Overturned recycling bin: Popular brunch spot nearby.
Wig in gutter: Seafood restaurant.
Chair next to lamppost: Housepainters live here.
Pair of shoes, side-by-side: This way to haircuts.
Pair of shoes, toes pointed...
“It’s amazingly easy, when you’re starting a new business, to forget...”
– Starting a Design Studio In a Downturn, Part 2: The First 15 Weeks | Design for the New Economy | Fast Company
“We designed the day not by lining up bullet points on a printed page, but by...”
– Learning from How Designers Think and Work - John Maeda & Becky Bermont - HarvardBusiness.org
“So what if your presentation software could send tweets on your behalf that were...”
– IDEO Labs » Keynote Tweet: Participate in the backchannel of your own presentation
“Anything cyber — cyberspace, cyberpunk, etc — reeks of Future Anterior and has a...”
– Where: Where is The Digital?
“Salic law was also an important issue in the Schleswig-Holstein question, and...”
– Salic law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“In addition to his ministry job, Loci is one of the leading coordinators for the...”
– Peacemaker breaks the ancient grip of Albania’s blood feuds | csmonitor.com
“Delope (French for “throwing away”) is the practice of throwing away...”
– Delope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
what's coming next
Recently, Brian Oberkirch came to town. We met up at Zeitgeist on a chilly evening to catch up over a beer. At some point in the conversation he asked, “When are you going to do another interview with Matt Jones? That’d be awesome.”
The last one went well. And Matt’s been up to some utterly fantastic stuff lately. So I asked if he’d like to go again, and he’s...
May Wrap-Up →
Sorry for this being the latest wrap-up ever.
May was a fun month for us. We rolled out a ton of new features: the ability to add YouTube videos and polls to comments, stats in your time…
“Abu l-Hasan ‘Ali Ibn Nafi‘ (Persian and Arabic: أبو الحسن علي ابن...”
– Ziryab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p463/11081l06.html →
If you’re keeping your business expense receipts in a shoe box, the IRS would like you to know you’re doing it wrong.
“The concept of “Thingfrastructure” in the talk is something I’ve found myself...”
– My talk from Frontiers of Interaction, Rome 2009 « Magical Nihilism
