January 2011
33 posts
“Sunday morning is the perfect time for “post and like”!”
“Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where...”
– Jose Samarago (via recycled-words)
The Age of Coworking: Collaborative Consumption... →
Two Suns? Twin Stars Could Be Visible From Earth... →
WatchIBM Computer beating humans at Jeopardy
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/13/ibms-watson-supercomputer-destroys-all-humans-in-jeopardy-pract/
The quietest people have the loudest minds.
evollbre asked: thanks for the follow, lovely!
Mockup-Driven Development — Timeless →
Very interesting approach, to an effective development process, that many of us probably do anyway.
Creating Mockups in the earliest possible development stage allows all participants to work more effectively on the application. Stakeholders know exactly what the finished application will look like, backend developer can focus on the logic powering the mockups and everybody can revisit the...
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a...”
– Victor Hugo (via solvingthemysteries)
What Facebook looks like
Relationship Statuses in 2010:
43,869,800 changed their status to single
3,025,791 changed their status to “it’s complicated”
28,460,516 changed their status to in a relationship
5,974,574 changed their status to engaged
36,774,801 changes their status to married
What 20 minutes on Facebook looks like
Shared links: 1,000,000 every 20 minutes
Tagged photos:...
clientsfromhell:
During the first meeting with the client, a Jewish community website for teens.
Client: ”We want something that has sort of an anarchist edge. Something crazy like Mickey Mouse with a swastika or something.”
Me: ”Are you sure your demographic is comfortable with swastikas?”
Client: ”Why wouldn’t they be?”
Rails 3 Cheat Sheets « Envy Labs →
Great Cheat Sheets!
WatchA Mystery: Why Can’t We Walk Straight? : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR