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Google Talks on YouTube
via Strobist by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
Shared by Mark Whiting The Authors@Google are good but you also MUST check out Google Tech Talks, in both google video and youtube formats. Some of them are utterly awesome. I have shared a bunch in the past too if you are interested.Last fall I had the pleasure of visiting Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to speak. It's an humbling experience -- not only for who you are...
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Londoners lukewarm on free £5 notes
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on June 06, 2008
A price comparison website, www.moneysupermarket.com ran a experiment on the streets of London and Manchester: [Representatives] wandered the streets this morning wearing sandwich boards offering a free £5 note to anyone who asked. Despite encountering over 1800 people, only 28 passers by bothered to take advantage of the offer.The experiment also found a stark difference in the attitudes of...
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Harajuku fashion gallery -- mind-bendingly awesome subculture
via Boing Boing by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
Shared by Mark Whiting I really like that description.JapanForum's group gallery of Harajuku fashion is gigantic, fantastic and mind-blowingly weird. William Gibson once described his "Sprawl" as being "designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button" -- Harajuku is like that, only more so.Link(via IZ Reloaded)
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Born to be Wild Design
via Yanko Design by (author unknown) on June 06, 2008
Shared by Mark Whiting I love nonobject. There are still smart designers in the world.In the competitive world of sleek and wind splitting motorcycle design, aero-dynamic drag efficiency takes a back seat only to face stretching speed and performance. This latest concept by NON-OBJECT called “nUCLEUS” throws out the current rule book and presents this “Square Against Air” electric...
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Kevin Fox of Gmail & FriendFeed on User Experience Design
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on June 01, 2008
From 2003 to January 2008, Kevin Fox worked as a user experience designer at Google, designing such products as Gmail, Google Calendar, and the second version of Google Reader. He’s currently working at FriendFeed. I met Kevin for a three-session instant messenger chat interview(edited for clarity, and both parties had the chance to make minor rewordings later on; see more about the...
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Don’t Say “Native Speaker”
via Korea Beat by Korea Beat on June 06, 2008
... of it, it makes them into objects of veneration — what a pathetic state.Moreover, we are like servants, and foreign English instructors come here, continuously being called native speaker, native speaker, and we just keep giving them money and calling them so, and this vicious cycle just keeps going.Accordingly, at minimum on this site, we should absolutely never say “native speaker”.
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Distribution of the foreign customers at a particular youth hostel
via writing | ben fry by (author unknown) on June 06, 2008
Shared by Mark Whiting I thought there would be more Australians.Two pieces representing youth hostel data from Julien Bayle. Both adaptations of the code found in Visualizing Data. The first a map:The map looks like most maps of data connected to a world map, but the second representation uses a treemap, which is much more effective (meaning that it answers his question much more directly).The...
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Photos of chicken forming in egg
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 28, 2008
Here's one photo of a series of about 20 photos showing a chicken developing in an egg. Before I saw these photos I had always thought that the yolk turned into a chicken, but it looks like the chicken forms outside of the yolk and absorbs the yolk as it develops. Link
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There is a lot of truth in this...
via Woosk by Dirt on June 04, 2008
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The Cell Phone Platform
via KK Lifestream by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
Originally posted in The TechniumI am envious of Jan Chipchase. He gets paid corporate wages to hopscotch from one remote exotic destination to the next, taking pictures of local lifestyle details and interviewing local residents about their technology use. He is usually described as a '"user anthropologist" or a "usability ethnographer" -- either one would be a cool job. I often crib...
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