Posts

20 October 2008	Relative readability	Why go so big on type? There’s a short answer and a long answer.
15 October 2008	Excuses, excuses	Some people might suggest it’s not worth redesigning a site I only post to twice a year. They’re missing the point.
12 April 2008	The Optimizer	Every designer is wired differently. Some people are idea people, some people are artists. I’m an optimizer.
5 October 2007	Indistinguishable from magic	I love video games. I’m terrible at most of them. But I’m a sucker for a game with a good story.

Photos

• 5 January 2009 Alight
• 9 September 2008 Booth
• 19 April 2008 Look at love

Links

28 May 2010

• The pre-post- era of publishing Liz Danzico, Modulating Craig Mod “We’re witnessing a return to a different way of telling stories. Be it congruent to the oral tradition, a time we told stories without being anchored to text, be it something else, there is a return while we move ahead.”

26 May 2010

• Lightbox_me This looks like a nice, simple jQuery script for modal dialogs and popups.

15 May 2010

• The All-In-One Almost-Alphabetical No-Bullshit Guide to Detecting Everything Mark Pilgrim is doing an incredible job making HTML5 understandable and useful.

11 May 2010

• Life is Beautiful “Kids can keep you up all night but it’s all worth it. Domestic animals give love freely to the least deserving, but their lives are short and their ends are often brutal. And it’s worth it. It is all worth it. Every day, even a sad day blurred by headaches and filled with business meetings, is magical and infinite. This dance, this particular proton dance, will never come again. This tune we’re too busy to hear will not be played again. Never forget to be thankful for your life.”
• Music notation with Canvas and Javascript Fascinating.
• Showroulette Tim Carmody: “When people talk about serendipity, they’re not always talking about dis cove ing some thing that’s totally brand-new. In fact, I’d hazard that they’re USUALLY talking about randomly unearthing something that’s comforting and familiar.”

6 May 2010

• HTML5 and the Web Tim Bray: “HTML5 promises to broaden the class of application problems you can solve with HTML, providing a good user experience while saving time and money. But that’s all; it’s not better because it’s “Web Technology”, it’s better because it’s better. Except when it isn’t. ”

4 May 2010

• A good problem to have Mike Davidson with some very smart writing on the state of Apple in 2010. “Apple will stay closed as long as being closed is a net positive to their business. Until people either start abandoning their products because of this or the do the opposite and adopt their products at a rate which creates a monopoly, they will continue operating at their current clip: high innovation, high profits, and high control.”

24 April 2010

• Bruce Sterling: The Hypersurface of this Decade I love this “blog post from a possible future” as fiction from earlier this year.

19 April 2010

• A Revolution In School Lunches Interesting look into the logistics and economics of making school lunches healthier (with no artificial reality show drama added).

3 April 2010

• Sneak Peak into iPad Newsstand Reveals Some Apps, Some Crapp Nice roundup of some of the prominent magazine and newspaper apps at the iPad launch.

21 March 2010

• “Fear and Loathing in Farmville” Interesting discussion from Soren Johnson on the impact of so-called “social games”, money-driven treadmill games and “release early, release often” on the craft of game design.

13 March 2010

• Sword and Sorcery This upcoming iPhone game shown at GDC looks fantastic. Sort of a King’s Quest vibe with an arty 8-bit style.

11 March 2010

• Philip K. Dick: Letter regarding Blade Runner “I can only say that I did not know that a work of mine or a set of ideas of mine could be escalated into such stunning dimensions. My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.”

16 February 2010

• We're the Stupid Ones “When folks need an elevator, we should give them an elevator, not an airplane. We’ve been giving them airplanes for 30 years, and then laughing at them for being too stupid to fly them right.”

Ephemera

• Watch Reprise

  I had to be drug to see this movie. It’s Norwegian, postmodern, and mostly about writers and depression. But it’s also a really fun coming of age movie and a warm love story. And now I‘m trying to convince everybody else to see it.

• Listen Volume One

  As if Zooey Deschanel could get any more charming, she also happens to sing like a particular brand of female vocalists that nobody pays to record anymore — sort of Carole King by way of Julie London. Add M. Ward and a couple of vintage romantic covers and this is an album I like more every time I put it on.

• Read Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

  I know what it looks like. It looks like an arty art book about an artist. And it is. But there's more clarity and wisdom in here — about what it means to do meaningful work, no matter what you do — than just about any book I've read on any subject.