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Clippings and drafts on or about the topic of being creative, making things, or being otherwise awesome. Twitter.
Clippings and drafts on or about the topic of being creative, making things, or being otherwise awesome. Twitter.
I’ve been playing with the Exit Strategy NYC app and it’s really quite great. The above screenshot is what train I take to work and it’s true, I do try and make sure I’m in car #2 although I hadn’t taken notice of which door is best, until now.When I finally get an iPhone, Exit Strategy is the first app I’m purchasing.
Heh, I’ve totally memorized this for a couple of trains on my own trial and error method. It will be nice to have it for all of them because I’m a nerd like that.
via scienceblogs.com
My RSS reader goes through a cycle: It starts out small and grows. It grows until it becomes a hassle to weed through a bunch of crap posts to find something interesting to read. That’s when I cut it back down to about ten feeds and start fresh.
A lot of blogs look good when I first visit, but it isn’t long until I figure out that the post that got me hooked was an outlier and that more of the content just makes my eyes want to bleed.
That being said, there are a few blogs that I truly look forward to reading. I thought it’d be nice to pay homage to those authors for a moment. I’m also interested in hearing about other people’s favorites so I can expand my own horizon.
I think—in the future—it would also be fun to take a few minutes to talk about why we like the blogs we like, but—at this point—I’m just interested in hearing about your favorites. Send a toot to @stevekinney with your picks.
syn·es·the·sia syn·aes·the·sia (sĭn’ĭs-thē’zhə)
n.
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.
The description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.
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Genius Miller ad.
(via andrewgraham : thedailywhat)
My loving homage to every breathless unboxing video ever made.
How much is the $100 million dollars in budget cuts compared to the federal budget as a whole? This video imagines the budget as $100 in pennies to provide the answer.
I’m pretty sure that cutting a penny into four pieces is a federal crime. Granted, it wouldn’t be prudent to borrow money from China to prosecute the guy.
Friends and family:
Please observe a moment of silence for my new Bejeweled high score. I understand that you may be stricken with envy, but please do not let this affect our personal and professional relationship.
Stay warm,
Steve
All of the shops are closed up permanently and the boardwalk is being torn up. If you look closely, the cars have been removed from the Wonder Wheel.
“KIDS” (via Rocco Kasby)
(via riotrepublic:here)
"Why am I here right now instead of making something cool on my own? What’s the barrier to me starting that right now?"
I agree with Mr. Lisagor on this one—I loved this toot from the moment I saw it. It reminds me of Ze Frank’s bit on perfection and brain crack, which in turn wreaks of the Cult of Done, which I posted directly below this.
Dan Wineman is something of a hero of mine.
I don’t really know who he is, but I know he does something smart with computers in a city called Slug Crossing, which is not real according to wikipedia and I’ve just been played.
He was invaluable with technical assistance on Birdhouse, the iPhone app for Twitter that Cameron and I launched Monday, he’s been beta testing for months, proving the concept with the best creative use of the form, and though we’ve never drunk together, I can already tell he’s just about the nicest guy I’ll ever eventually drink with.
And here, in this toot? In that tiny little box? He makes art while making sense of art.
