June 2012
1 post
April 2012
3 posts
“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms,...”
– Quote by Tom Stoppard: We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must… (via slantback)
“It’s just being open-sourced, which, when it happens to commercial software,...”
– Lukas Matias | ignore the code blog
March 2012
1 post
January 2012
1 post
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
“But at a certain point the view of the world from Steve Jobs’ brain ceased to...”
– Steven Levy | Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
September 2011
3 posts
2 tags
“That’s what the whole single-shot cinema is about: trying to think of the world...”
– – Leonard Retel Helmrich, A Master of Impossible Camera (NYT)
June 2011
12 posts
1 tag
“Whether the industry likes it or not, music is now like water: it streams into...”
– –Wyndham Wallace | How The Music Industry Is Killing Music And Blaming The Fans
“We want the design to be intentionally confusing to show how complicated the...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
May 2011
2 posts
clientsfromhell:
Client: “Why is this line bigger and bolder than the rest?” Me: “Because it’s a headline.” Client: “Well then make the whole site a headline.”
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
14 posts
“A guy walks up to me and asks ‘What’s Punk?’. So I kick over a garbage can and...”
– Billie Joe Armstrong (via alanajoy)
Why Borders Failed
“Explaining the global fall of Borders – their UK arm collapsed last year – isn’t quite as simple as blaming Amazon and the rise of ebooks. But it mostly is. The company took a big gamble a decade or so ago in focusing on the notion of bricks-and-mortar book shopping as an “experience”. Stores were built with coffee shops and comfy chairs and warm little nooks in which people could hang out...
The moronic's of clientdom
Client: “Hi Jess. We no longer need our website up as we are merging. Can we please get a refund on the hosting and the website? I have attached the receipts from the past two years. Kind regards,” (via clientsfromhell)
“Everything is the way it is because it got that way.”
– D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1860—1948 (via slantback)
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
1 post
September 2010
5 posts
