Dead End Thrills
One of my favorite image blogs. They hack and tweak the settings of their favorite computer games to get the best possible picture quality and then take amazing screenshots of the game, capturing amazing events and scenery. You should definitely check it out.
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
Are we really going to accept an Interface Of The Future that is less expressive than a sandwich?
This post made me stop and realize that even though things are pretty cool right now, we’ve still got a long way to go to reach the future. It’s still being invented.
Visualizing How A Population Grows To 7 Billion : NPR
Really interesting and clear video visualization of the world’s population growth.
As much flak as I give Joe Buck, him mimicking his father’s call from the 1991 World Series is super, super cool.
How About That of the Day: 20 years and a day to the day that his father, Jack Buck, made the now-iconic “we’ll see you tomorrow night” call after Kirby Puckett’s walk-off homerun in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series, Joe Buck uses the exact same line following David Freese’s insta-classic Game 6 homer.
As you may recall, the Twins went on to win Game 7. We’ll see if the same fate is in the cards for the Cards tonight.
[devour.]
Source: thedailywhat
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Labeling the Back button
Most “deep” apps require some amount of navigation, moving the user deeper into child views and then back out to the parent view. That navigational backtracking is typically done with a “Back” button, positioned in the top-left corner, and denoted by a pointed left side. You’ve all seen it:
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Source: mrgan
Apple's aesthetic dichotomy
I hate how the Calendar app, Find My Friends, Game Center, etc, has leather stitching, torn pages, felt fabric backgrounds, and whatnot. It aggravates me to no end. It’s so condescending, as if we’re so stupid that we could never wrap our heads around such applications on a digital device.
When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone - perhaps his greatest product presentation - he joked that the iPhone was an iPod with a rotary dialing system on the front. It was deliberately absurd, and the audience duely delivered the anticipated laugh. (I’m reliably informed that an early prototype of the phone actually did feature such an interface.)
But no one laughs when Apple delivers a calendar application for the iPad that tries its hardest to look like a real-word desktop calendar pad, complete with fake leather and “torn” pages.
Still fewer have a chuckle when they see the new Address Book app on Mac OS X Lion, or the even more recent Find My Friends iPhone app.
Wouldn’t It Be Cool if Shakespeare Wasn’t Shakespeare?
Zing.
Healthy skepticism about elites has devolved into an absence of basic literacy.
This is why I love Community and have a man crush on Dan Harmon
Dude knows how to write.
We Can All Become Job Creators
This idea sounds really awesome. Can’t wait to see it in action. Definitely going down to my local Starbucks on Nov. 1 and donating. Read more here: http://www.starbucks.com/responsibility/community/create-jobs-for-usa-program
Schultz is back with Big Idea No. 2. It is every bit as idealistic as his first big idea, but far more practical. Starbucks is going to create a mechanism that will allow us citizens to do what the government and the banks won’t: lend money to small businesses. This mechanism is scheduled to be rolled out on Nov. 1.
Theo Epstein On His Way Out?
If Epstein figures out the Cubs woes and brings them a championship, it would solidify his status as the greatest GM of all time.
From Steve Buckley of the Boston Herald:
“Two baseball sources have confirmed that Theo Epstein is on the cusp of leaving his job as general manager of the Red Sox to accept a position with the Chicago Cubs that is believed to include powers greater than he has in Boston, with an…
Source: oldtimefamilybaseball
Green Bay Packers expected to offer more stock to public - ESPN
I am totally going to buy one share just to say I am a part owner of the Green Bay Packers.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Source: cesart
Brilliant. I unheart skeumorphism, too.
(via Dribbble - I Heart Skeumorphism by Robert Padbury)
I dislike skeumorphism but even I got a kick out of this.
Source: dribbble.com
If everything is shared automatically, nothing has significance.
Source: memex.naughtons.org
