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RSSAs the graffiti I saw the other day said: “Sorry, the lifestyle you ordered is currently out of stock.” I tell you who really needs “work experience”. Much of this government.
- Suzanne Moore, I have stacked shelves and hosed down urinals. Unlike the elite who are now telling lazy scroungers to buck up
Next time some asshole in management tells you that you need to add social media features, ask them to come up with the most shocking content that you might ever potentially have on the site and ask them whether they still want goofy smileys and “Like this” buttons after it.
- Tom Morris, Why you need less interactivity
Back in the earliest days of personal computing, we may not have understood how our calculators worked, but we understood exactly what they were doing for us: adding one number to another, finding a square root, and so on. With computers and networks, unlike our calculators, we don’t even know what we are asking our machines to do, much less how they are going to go about doing it. Every Google search is—at least for most of us—a Hail Mary pass into the datasphere, requesting something from an opaque black box. How does it know what is relevant? How is it making its decisions? Why can’t the corporation in charge tell us? And we have too little time to consider the consequences of not knowing everything we might like to about our machines. As our own obsolescence looms, we continue to accept new technologies into our lives with little or no understanding of how these devices work and work on us.
- Douglas Rushkoff in Program or Be Programmed
Americans have long regarded the semi-colon with suspicion, as a genteel, self-conscious, neither-one-thing-nor-the other sort of punctuation mark, with neither the butchness of a full colon nor the flighty promiscuity of the comma. Hemingway and Chandler and Stephen King wouldn’t be seen dead in a ditch with a semi-colon (though Truman Capote might). Real men, goes the unwritten rule of American punctuation, don’t use semi-colons.
- Ben MacIntyre via Wikipedia
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.
- Misattrubuted to Thatcher, but hey
My Lords, I very strongly support this amendment. I have a six year-old American grandson, and I have read his kindergarten report. He was making good progress with the computer and the iPad when he was not yet six. We have to keep in touch, and we have to be there. It is very important that this amendment should be supported.
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http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?gid=2011-10-24a.608.0
Baroness Butler-Sloss
How difficult it is to be simple
http://clientsfromhell.net/post/520758269/client-can-you-have-these-wireframes-done-by
Client: “Can you have these wireframes done by tomorrow?”
Me: “Possibly. Can you please send me a list of the functionality required for this site?”
Client: “Sure:
Dashboard
Comments/What are you doing?
Inbox / Outbox / Sent Items
Post News
Files Repository
Pictures
Tasks Manager/Reminders (e-mail reminders)
Calendar (Birthdays, Trips)
Work
Play/Hobbies
Dating
Health
Tickets (for friends/families)
News Feed
Contact Info: Mobile/Home/Work, etc.
Employer
Facebook Connect
LinkedIn Connect
See who’s viewing you in real time….
Chat
Settings
Time Zone
Report a Bug/Suggestion
Twitter Connect
Auto-Reply/Auto-Away Message
Family/Friends List (notes/send-email)
Education Profile
Mint.com Aggregator (Financials)
Health/Beauty
Evite.com
Insurance (Auto/Medical/Home/Renter’s, etc)
Weather (Current/Remote)
LogMeIn (Control your other computers)
Repositories (throw anything in here… and create additional folders)
Music (Upload Your Music Files)
Organize Your Documents (scans/passports/etc)
send resumes, etc.
User Names/Password Keys Organizer
Videos: Link, Upload, Share - via YouTube functionality
Bills Due (activate with link/pw’s)
Google/Yahoo/Bing Search
Movies (what did you watch, where did you watch it, how do you rate it 1-10, and tell us why you think it was awesome - in a few sentences…)
PDF Converter
Accounting
Blast Text out to Friends/Families
Antivirus/Malware Scan
Articulize Yourself (write updates on yourself in article format…)
TXT Reminders
Pet Vaccines Schedule/Certificate
Document Sharing
Schedule/Calendar Sharing/Group
Professor Schedule/Office Hours
bus schedule
university changes updates
birthdays / parties of colleagues
Reviews of Books/Txtbooks
Book Auctions/Repository
Online Coupons
local restaurants/bars
RA/Dorm Schedule
Univ. Clubs nearby
sports team
schedules games
exam schedule / midterms
job firms / hiring / research on companies
job hunting / co-op / summer internships
Class Schedule
Student ID#
POP3 Integration
Rent Due
Taxes, etc.
Scoreboards for fav teams
Groups
Work Documents
Travel Schedule
Flight Status/on Time
Carrier Points Programs
Book Clubs/Restaurant Clubs/Groups
Cell Phone List/Contacts
Built-In Dictionary
School Medical Clinic
Games
gym schedule
‘Homework Reminders’, essay reminders
Menstruation tracker so you can see if you’re late for your period”
- http://clientsfromhell.net/post/520758269/client-can-you-have-these-wireframes-done-by
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Ghandi
Personal Datavis
http://feltron.com/index.php?/content/2009_annual_report/
Each day in 2009, I asked every person with whom I had a meaningful encounter to submit a record of this meeting through an online survey. These reports form the heart of the 2009 Annual Report. From parents to old friends, to people I met for the first time, to my dentist… any time I felt that someone had discerned enough of my personality and activities, they were given a card with a URL and unique number to record their experience.
I kept track only of who I gave survey invitations to, the number of the card and where it was given. The surveys answers were submitted via text forms, allowing the respondee to write whatever they desired, and leaving the task of making comparisons between the data up to me. I have used only this information to create the report, however accurate it may be. I have strived to sort and collate the data in a clinical and repeatable manner that could be reproduced by someone looking for the same stories I have selected.
The data set itself was messy and overwhelming, and filled with enough information for several more reports. There are inherent shortcomings (like the unrepresentative amount of water recorded), and endearing strong suits (like the exploration of mood). I used several tools to make this task a more manageable, including Processing, which allowed me to map and explore alternate layouts much more quickly than previously, and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
The printed edition of the report is being letterpressed by Swayspace in Brooklyn, New York. It is 16 pages and printed using 4 colors on 80 lb. French Durotone cover stock, and will be individually numbered, signed and mailed in March.
I am not as dangerous. I’m not as effective in the penalty area any more. That is
something I have lost. I have to get that back. I used to score better goals, great goals. But something strange has happened.
- Carlos Tevez, October 2008.
raw data may be the new crude oil, but only oil companies can build petrol stations
- Me via this. I kindof sortof agree with myself, but not 100%!
Don’t have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.
- Seth Godin - Is it too late to catch up?
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