January 2011
19 posts
“What is humans.txt?
It’s an initiative for knowing the people behind a website....”
– Humans TXT: We Are People, Not Machines.
We need this.
(via derekg)
Idea: A Word-Shortening Thesaurus That Makes You... →
Designspiration →
yum
“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Why Apple won't yet ditch the home button on the... →
Waiting for Godot for Wii breaks first week sales... →
The game, designed for two players, offers a series of increasingly futile activities such as arguing, exchanging hats, discussing whether this is the right tree for the arranged meeting, and contemplating suicide – all to ‘hold the terrible silence at bay’ as the advertising strap-line promises.
“Six months ago, she decided to spend her lunch breaks chronicling the unique...”
– Because We’re Home to a Woman Who Spends Her Days Smelling Books - Reasons to Love New York 2010 — New York Magazine
WatchDocumentary about my good friend Shireen Press’s all-women’s circus in Portland, Circus Artemis.
Flying High, Standing Tall: The Story of Circus Artemis (by NW Documentary)
Bad Usability Calendar 2011 →
Boredom Enthusiasts Discover the Pleasures of... →
For seven hours on that Saturday, 20 speakers held forth on a range of seemingly dreary diversions, from “The Intangible Beauty of Car Park Roofs” and “Personal Reflections on the English Breakfast,” to “The Draw in Test Match Cricket” and “My Relationship With Bus Routes.”
Journalist and author Naomi Alderman spoke about the difficulty of...
Pronunciation patterns of place →
bobulate:
A professional linguist presents an addictive map of American English Dialects with over 600 sound-samples:
Some people collect stamps. Others collect coins. I collect dialects. …. For many of the cities or towns on this map, you can listen to an audio or video sample of speech of a native (more specifically, someone who was raised there, though not necessarily born there, and whose...
