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A note on the format: I've noticed that I post short points, based on links, which suggests a tumbleog as opposed to an online diary or news site, so, inspired by Anarchaia, Christian Neukirchen's tumbleog, I'm shifting modes.



Bob Dylan in Denmark: "But what interests me more is the idea of a collection based on historically romantic figures. Napoleon and Josephine, Dante and Beatrice, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas, Brad and Angelina..."

CSS Typography Examples



A day late: A sketch of The Analytical Engine, with the notes of Ada Lovelace.

Coding the Mars Lander robot

Issue 12 of The Quarterly Conversation. Includes essays on Borges and Barthelme.

Computer Programming for Everybody

Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo.

David Pogue posted a follow-up review of the MacBook Air, and while I find his points interesting, what stood out most was this statement:

"It's the same lesson I learned when I reviewed the Flip "camcorder" a couple weeks ago: if you change the shape and concept of something enough, it ceases to be that thing. It becomes a new thing, or a descendant of that earlier thing. But it's no longer the original thing, and you can't judge it on the same yardstick."

I've been thinking a lot about the power of design, how we can make a website something other than another "thing" if we design well (the definition of well has yet to be determined). It's about elevating a user's experience through design - making the experience of the user something else, something more.

via Signal vs. Noise