Charlie Park

I love how Cooper divides their interaction design teams into two classes: Generation and Synthesis,...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:39:14 -0500

I love how Cooper divides their interaction design teams into two classes: Generation and Synthesis, and how each team is made up of one of each.

Kind of like ad agencies having a copywriter and an art director working side-by-side.

I’d love to talk with someone who’s worked there, to see how it played out in situ.

"Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:45:51 -0500

“Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.”

- Pablo Picasso, via Culture Making

jordanbrock.com » Getting Rails, Git and Capistrano to work on a Joyent Accelerator

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:54:17 -0400

jordanbrock.com » Getting Rails, Git and Capistrano to work on a Joyent Accelerator:

A good overview on getting Rails and whatnot deployed. Not *exactly* right for my usecase, but good enough to come back to later on as a reference.

merlin: There is an elephant in the way by codepo8 [via]

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:56:21 -0400

merlin:

There is an elephant in the way by codepo8

[via]

I’m all about more fun / less stuff, but it’d be...

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:45:31 -0400

I’m all about more fun / less stuff, but it’d be nice to have a *friend* with this conceptual yacht pool. (via Baekdal.com)

Steve Souders on @font-face: “Avoid using @font-face unless it’s critical to the...

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:34:37 -0400

Steve Souders on @font-face: “Avoid using @font-face unless it’s critical to the page.”

Wish this had been out there before I started designing Monotask. Merp.

Via Andy Crouch / Culture Making: “Sari Bari grew out of years of workers from the Word Made...

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:27:10 -0400

Via Andy Crouch / Culture Making:

“Sari Bari grew out of years of workers from the Word Made Flesh mission organization listening to women in the commercial sex industry in the south of India. As WMF befriended the women they would ask, “What would freedom look like for you? How would you like to attain that?” Based on their responses, a WMF field director in Kolkata, Sarah Lance, and a former WMF staffer, Kristin Keen, came up with an idea to recycle used saris, the traditional clothing Indian women wear. The saris could be sewn into quilts or purses and sold. The required speed-sewing skills were hard-won, requiring six months or more to learn. During that time, WMF also offers therapy, math and literacy instruction. But once the women finish the training, they can leave the sex trade and experience something more like freedom.

And the bags and quilts they produced were beautiful — so beautiful that the women realized they were making art, not just textiles. So they began to sign their work. In the sex trade these women often go by a false name that helps them disassociate from what they have to go through. But when they signed their artwork they used their real, given names.”

from “Sari Bari,” by Jason Byassee, in Faith & Leadership

"We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without."

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:16:06 -0400

“We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.”

- Henry David Thoreau, via The Art of Manliness

"I consider myself both a relatively lazy person as well as someone who is easily distracted by..."

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:34:10 -0400

“I consider myself both a relatively lazy person as well as someone who is easily distracted by bright shiny activities that attract my attention. Of course I discovered years ago that if I let either or both of those tendencies hold too much sway, my life would veer in an unproductive direction. And, worst of all, because things would start to go, well, not so well, I would begin to lose my freedom to goof off and my ability to run down cool, creative rabbit trails! So some of the best things I have done for myself are to create blinders and focusing tricks that keep my attention engaged with the best things at the right times, so I don’t have to work so hard at not working hard.”

- David Allen (via rosasay)

Continuing my interest in tube-y homes / offices: superamit: ...

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:45:40 -0400

Continuing my interest in tube-y homes / offices:

superamit:

thecoolhunter.co.uk

"When readers, not advertisers, ante up, content must be essential, unique, and vastly more..."

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:47:43 -0400

“When readers, not advertisers, ante up, content must be essential, unique, and vastly more compelling than the free stuff.”

- Christopher Kimball, editor of Cooks Illustrated

via dancroak

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:49:57 -0400

via dancroak

Yeah. Girls with sythpop backing, covering The Pixies, The Cure,...

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:41:52 -0400

Yeah. Girls with sythpop backing, covering The Pixies, The Cure, Squeeze, or any other songs-that-would-have-been-on-WHFS-in-the-mid-90’s gets reblogged, post haste.

(via fred-wilson, who seems to have excellent musical taste, among other things.)

evangotlib: I bet the people of the moon are second guessing Obama’s Nobel right now.

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:35:57 -0400

evangotlib:

I bet the people of the moon are second guessing Obama’s Nobel right now.

Gonna be honest with you: I rather like “steamchimps” as a band name. Especially if...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:18:21 -0400

Gonna be honest with you: I rather like “steamchimps” as a band name. Especially if their first album cover is a mustachioed, top-hatted dirigible.

For more, see Merlin’s personal ad.

Again with the meaningless numbers. The number on the right...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:49:18 -0400

Again with the meaningless numbers.

The number on the right this time is 20,000, not 5,000.

This is where I begin to wonder how sustainable this is. Also: is DreamHost going to stay true to their “unlimited bandwidth” claims? Meep!

"Note to self: More levity. Less worry. Stop being so meta and just make stuff, not making stuff..."

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:20:26 -0400

“Note to self: More levity. Less worry. Stop being so meta and just make stuff, not making stuff about making stuff. That sucks.”

- Frank Chimero (via jackcheng)

Well this is kind of fun. Here’s yesterday’s Google...

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:41:17 -0400

Well this is kind of fun.

Here’s yesterday’s Google Analytics report for Twinkylinks. That number on the right side of the graph (I know it’s hard to read) is 5,000. That’s thanks to Twinkylinks getting picked up by Simple Mom and Zen Habits.

Now: It’s time to stop getting distracted by numbers that don’t mean anything.

“This morning, with her, having coffee.” – Johnny Cash, when...

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:11:16 -0400

“This morning, with her, having coffee.”

– Johnny Cash, when asked for his definition of paradise.

(via mikehudack » artistspaid » newspeedwayboogie)

Tweaking the Brizz

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:11:00 -0400

Maybe, like Merlin and JasPer and me, you really like Brizzly, but you really don’t like the “Recent Trends” box they’ve got going on on the right sidebar.

If so, I have a present for you. If you go to Userstyles.org, you can get a custom CSS declaration that you can pop into Userstyles, and that’ll make that Recent Trends box disappear. Yay! Use it in good health.

And if you like it, maybe you’ll sign up for something else that I made for you? It’s over at Twinkylinks, and it’s free and will be useful soon.

In case you missed that mention before the image, you should go check out Twinkylinks.