The Fidget Toy

Via Daringfireball: Cooper's One Free Interaction

In school, we used to talk about designing the perfect fidgeter's gadget. It was basically a product with no specific function except to be fun to play with, like a paper weight, except with even less utility. Various …

"2012: Michael Phelps wins 13 gold medals, celebrates with bong hit of salvia. The apology reads..."

""2012: Michael Phelps wins 13 gold medals, celebrates with bong hit of salvia. The apology reads 'Rrrrrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhh (falls down)'"" - drewtoothpaste, with the funniest comment I have ever read on Twitter.

"Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they'll apply every bit of..."

"Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they'll apply every bit of genius they have to solve it in the best possible way. If you tell them how to do it, you'll suffer the wrath of an angry God." - Derek Powazek

"There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the..."

"There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you." - Norman Mailer

One-week update: iPhone FTW/FAIL

After one week, here's how things are shaking out:

The obvious omissions have been commented on so many times I'll only give them a brief nod: No copy/paste, no MMS, no tethering--major WTFs. App store dictatorship, mildly annoying, but frankly I'm glad not to have to …

The thing about iPhones is that you never knew how much you needed to chat before

After months of pretending not to care, I finally took the plunge and joined the ranks of dumb looking men staring at their hands while standing in lines, sitting in bars, on trains, in taxis, bathrooms, and next to their significant others (unless those SOs have …

Customer Service

Three years ago, after fielding months of frustrated phone calls from my mother to help troubleshoot her ailing PC, my persistent lobbying for her to purchase a Macintosh finally paid off. Within a week, our phone conversations resumed their normal peaceful tone and we …

The Genuine Expression of any Intention is Beauty

A few photography links I've been enjoying lately:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/acksonjay/

http://flickr.com/photos/sjrohde/

http://flickr.com/photos/tannerv/

"Through the Mirror" out now!

adcBicycle's "Through the Mirror" remix album, on which I contributed the opening track, is now available as a free download!

"Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part..."

"Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing …

Anger, real steaming fucking anger can make a man verbose.

This is the best bit of vitriol I have read in recent memory.

At a Starbuck's in Bangkok, I learned that a caramel...

At a Starbuck's in Bangkok, I learned that a caramel macchiato is 16oz of milk, two shots of espresso and caramel syrup.

"Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it, as in the feel of it."

""Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it, as in the feel of it."" - Stanley Kubrick

Of course we were freaks

"SZ: Why did you never take photos of people or of faces? HB: Because people weren't our subject matter. People are a different topic.

SZ: But people are an interesting topic. HB: Maybe for others, not for us. If someone takes photos of cathedrals nobody asks: Where is …

"Never assume conspiracy when you can assume incompetence."

"Never assume conspiracy when you can assume incompetence." - Edward Tufte

Merica

Pretty much sums it up for the whole West Coast, frankly, but as soon as you leave California, you drop the (awesome).

more graph humor and song chart memes

I stood fifty feet from this man when he was shot, who then...

I stood fifty feet from this man when he was shot, who then hopped by us an arm's length away, holding his bleeding calf and crying out as he tried to get across the street.

With the proliferation of Photoshopped (it is too a word!)...

With the proliferation of Photoshopped (it is too a word!) images, I can only hope this is real.

The Blogs, Redacted.

I deleted a couple of posts that were eating at me. It's not that I don't stand by my opinions on the matter (Synopsis of the deleted content:

Coming soon. Very soon: 5-track ambient EP from yours truly.

Coming soon. Very soon:

5-track ambient EP from yours truly.