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I’ve always been a big fan of Simple Desktops, and I just changed my wallpaper again, to Where the Wild Things Are.

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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Leonardo da Vinci (via scrivs)

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Sherry Turkle has a really good TED talk on the impacts of technology on our lives. Key quote for me:

The feeling that no one is listening to me is very important in our relationships with technology.

Her book, Alone Together, is also very good.

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Context is the enemy of judgment; where context resides, empathy ensues, and empathy is perhaps the most human of all emotions.

Rob Boone, On Context.

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We went for a quick hike in the mountains of Stellenbosch (near Cape Town, South Africa) on Saturday morning to clear our heads. We also had coffee the way it was intended to be enjoyed. So in case you were wondering, this is why we choose to live here.

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The theory of machinery is that it saves time, but Stanford himself noted of such machinery that “if you could limit man’s wants it might be called ‘labor saving,’ but as there are no limits to his wants, the machinery really increases the power of production.” That is, the industrialized world wants more goods, not more time, and so the machinery doesn’t increase freedom and leisure, it increases production and consumption.

From Rebecca Solnit’s River of Shadows (via viafrank)

Posted 6 days ago

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I really like this: data visualization packaging for milk cartons.

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Nice illustration of the user-centered design process from Louis Rosenfeld’s great article on Smashing magazine, Stop Redesigning And Start Tuning Your Site Instead.

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The question persists and indeed grows whether the computer will make it easier or harder for human beings to know who they really are, to identify their real problems, to respond more fully to beauty, to place adequate value on life, and to make their world safer than it now is.

Norman Cousins, The Poet and the Computer - 1966

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