video: Will Smith Medley

It’s Friday and this little diddy is super-fun, so why the hell not? Pear and the Beard have a medley of Will Smith-themed songs, and they made a nice little music video to go with it.

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quote: Three things about Marco Arment

It’s just that it’s mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems. And, then they rend garments, gnash teeth, and impotently curse the clouds for God’s …

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quote: Bug tracking isn’t a network-effect business

Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary. ~David Heinemeier Hansson, Bug tracking isn’t a network-effect business
True in business and in life.

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a/b Testing on Twitter

I’m currently working on a book cover design for none other than my dad, Chuck Blakeman. We’ve got a few different designs we’ve narrowed it down to, and I thought I’d have some fun by throwing a couple of them out on Twitter to get some responses.

The …

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video: Solitude

“A long journey in solitude searching for hope.

A film that communicates in a esthetic pictures poetry and emotion, to explore a new experience in Cinemato Graphy.”

I’m enamored with this short film by Robin RIsser. Shot in the Charente region of France, the …

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link: pick.im - a startup in the open

My friend Andrew Hyde is pursuing a new venture in addition to all the other awesome things he does. It’s called: pick.im. He’s putting together some tools for the freelance market. If you’re a freelancer or small services business, you’ll want to keep an …

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quote: Creating Controversy for its own Sake

But the web will still be full of arrogant, uninformed, polarizing, self-promoting, controversy-creating content that has ramifications no one wants to own up to. And consequently, the web will still be lacking in common courtesy, humility, and the admittance that most …

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quote: Unfounded Anger

I’m not looking to be a hall monitor, or suggesting that people shouldn’t be angry from time to time, but right now, at this stage in web design’s evolution, we’ve swung too far away from a positive discussion. ~Tom Watson, Unfounded Anger
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link: Chatrbox

I’m loving the new app Chatrbox from Elliott Kember. It’s well executed, simple, and, especially if you’re using a WebKit browser, really, really sexy. Hector Simpson helped Elliott with the design. You can read more about it in Elliott’s announcement blog …

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quote: The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals

We rarely have meetings. I hate them. They’re a huge waste of time, and they’re costly. It’s not one hour; it’s 10, because you pulled 10 people away from their real work. Plus, they chop your day into small bits, so you have only 20 minutes of free time here or …

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video: Hecq Vs Exillion: Spheres Of Fury

I’m not even sure how to describe this epic music video. You just have to watch, full screen, with the sound on. Really well done.

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quote: Working hard is overrated

We agreed that a lot of what we then considered “working hard” was actually “freaking out”. Freaking out included panicking, working on things just to be working on something, not knowing what we were doing, fearing failure, worrying about things we needn’t …

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quote: Wall Street Smarts

“The financial system nearly collapsed,” he said, “because smart guys had started working on Wall Street.” He took a sip of his martini, and stared straight at the row of bottles behind the bar, as if the conversation was now over. ~Calvin Trillin, Wall Street …

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quote: Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists

And so, like the goat sacrificers and snake oil salesmen before them, a new breed of con man was born, the Search Engine Optimizer. These scammers claim that they can dance the magic dance that will please the Google Gods and make eyeballs rain down upon you.

Do. …

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quote: NASA is Fucking Up

So when you take a speeding satellite and you smash it into the moon you bet your ass that this is an opportunity to get people amped about space. ~Michael Tseng, NASA is Fucking Up
As Michael says, NASA needs to make space sexy again.

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link: Stefan Kanchev

A site honoring the work of Bulgarian designer, Stefan Kanchev, one of the most prolific mark designers of modern graphic design. He did all of these marks by hand. Many of them are simply genius. Visit link…

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quote: Some spec work thoughts

I feel that what makes spec work OK for me sometimes isn’t so much about the specific terms and pay and design requirements involved. It’s about why you are doing it. Is it for a friend? Is it for charity? Is it an exciting, fun project? Do you get enjoyment out …

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quote: Conation – Maybe the Most Important Business Word You’ve Never Heard

Our educational system has promoted thinking and feeling almost to the exclusion of doing. We are all taught that if we just get enough information into our heads and feel good about it, that we’ll eventually do something about it. I believe the reason this valuable …

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link: Michael Pollan’s Writing House

Writer Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma) built a small cabin on his property to use a dedicated writing spot. Even though he technically works from home, I think there’s something to be said for the physical separation the cabin …

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photo: Kalle Gustafsson

I don’t remember how I came across Gustafsson’s site, but the work is fantastic. I love the somewhat vintage, yet over-processed style on a lot of the fashion/beauty shoots. Also, check out the the Travel section. Visit original…

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