March 2010
17 posts
Dumb laws of Washington State →
Dumb laws of Washington State
compiled by Dixie A. Walter Here are some of the dim-witted laws of our otherwise bright state:
Forget about buying a TV on Sunday in Spokane. It’s illegal. Buying any kind of meat on Sunday in Washington is also against the law as is purchasing a mattress.
This is a tricky one. A man may be looking at five...
The Kickstarter Blog: Kickstarter Podcast #4:... →
The latest Kickstarter podcast (subscribe on iTunes or listen online) features a conversation with Famulus, a hacker-turned-inventor who is attempting to create an open source fusion reactor using Kickstarter. The project is currently $700 short of its $3,000 goal with five days to go.
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Make Less More
52weeksofux:
“What if instead of adding new features, a company concentrated on making the service or product much easier to use? Or making it much easier to access the advanced features it already has, but that few can master? Maybe what they lose in market share in one area will be more than compensated for in another area. In a lot of markets, it’s gotten so bad out there that simply being...
52 Weeks of UX: Changing Existing Situations →
“Everyone designs who devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artifacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales…
Fela Kuti →
It’s almost impossible to overstate the impact and importance of Fela Anikulapo (Ransome) Kuti (or just Fela as he’s more commonly known) to the global musical village: producer, arranger, musician, political radical, outlaw. He was all that, as well as showman par excellence, inventor of Afro-beat, an unredeemable sexist, and a moody megalomaniac. His death on August 3, 1997 of...
A Macbook Pro refresh coming? =) →
Apple Inc. may soon update its MacBook Pro laptops since checks show supplies of the computer are more limited than usual, an analyst said Wednesday.
Top 10 mispronounced foodie words →
easilyportable:
pho (fuh)
Google Android's self-destruction derby begins →
Google Android’s self-destruction derby begins
The dark side of the flood of new Android smartphones: versions run amok
When schools spy on their students, bad things... →
When schools spy on their students, bad things happen
Pennsylvania’s Lower Merion School District thought it was clever to use webcams to track its students’ MacBooks — boy, were they mistaken
February 2010
3 posts
“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously”