May 2013
35 posts
1 tag
“But all of that boredom, all of that watching, finally paid off. One day, out of...”
– The birth of Swiffer at P&G as explained here.
““When you’re reading or skimming argumentative essays, especially by...”
– “The ‘surely’ klaxon” by Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking →
The evolution of the web →
Interactive infographic about the evolution of browsers and the web. This infographic features major web browsers since 1993 such as Mosaic, Netscape, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome, as well as key developments in web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
“Jules-de-chez-Smith-en-face (Jules-from-Smith’s-across-the-street) is one of...”
– Source: Wikipedia.
“The term video game design is actually the wrong term. In the industry, we are...”
– Jenova Chen in this interview
3 tags
On the Prehistory of QWERTY by Koichi Yasuoka and... →
QWERTY keyboard is widely used for information processing nowadays in Japan, United States, and other countries. And the most frequently asked question about the keyboard is: “Why are the letters of the keyboard arranged the way they are?” Several papers in the field of information processing answer the question like this: “To slow down the operator.” It’s nonsense....
“OSR is also representative of a current obsession with how open things used to...”
– Peter Bebergal on D&D and the Old School Renaissance on BoingBoing
““But that transformation hasn’t happened. And it won’t. Why? Because...”
– Marcus Wohlsen in Wired
“London based designers Dunne & Raby have been working with what they refer...”
– Found in the description of the UMK exhibit
April 2013
47 posts
““even when advances in brain-reading technologies speed up, there will be...”
– As described in the NYT
“Today, indeed, the principal task of ideological criticism is to do
away with...”
– Manfredo Tafuri, Architecture and Utopia.
“Il peut m’arriver d’éclater de rire en regardant un meuble ou un paquet de...”
– Interview de Pierre la Police, avril 2012.
WatchFacebook demetricator by Benjamin Grosser:
The Facebook interface is filled with numbers. These numbers, or metrics, measure and present our social value and activity, enumerating friends, likes, comments, and more. Facebook Demetricator is a web browser addon that hides these metrics. No longer is the focus on how many friends you have or on how much they like your status, but on who they are...
