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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><description>Adding more irregular updates of inspiration to the For Inspiration Only website.</description><title>Serendipitous encounters</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @ianus)</generator><link>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/</link><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/SerendipitousEncounters" type="application/rss+xml" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><item><title>Colbert on the Netherlands, including Skating, DSB decline and...</title><description>&lt;embed style="display:block" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:254015" width="360" height="301" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="window" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="autoPlay=false" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" bgcolor="#000000"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/254015/november-02-2009/sport-report---nyc-marathon---olympic-speedskating"&gt;Colbert on the Netherlands, including Skating, DSB decline and sponsoring the US Olympic speedskating team | November 2, 2009 | ColbertNation.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/1hwrALEAmKA/233238566</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/233238566</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:15:01 +0100</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/233238566</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>"Everything—including touch—is best for something and worst for something else. True innovators needs..."</title><description>“Everything—including touch—is best for something and worst for something else. True innovators needs to know as much about when, why, and how not to use an otherwise trendy technology, as they do about when to use it.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/oct2009/id20091021_629186.htm"&gt;Bill Buxton on the touch hype&lt;/a&gt;via &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/kickerstudio/statuses/5076537523"&gt;Kicker Studio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/dCu2asY1VL0/223699856</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/223699856</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:19:33 +0100</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/223699856</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title> Poul Henningsen on the Philosophy of light (1/3) via Walter...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CFB4qgGTtMo&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CFB4qgGTtMo&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abitare.it/design-museum/second-selection-michele-de-lucchi-ph-artichoke/"&gt; Poul Henningsen on the Philosophy of light (1/3)&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/baffo/status/5023523282"&gt;Walter Aprile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/5Om1mFCPCXI/218264918</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/218264918</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:57:15 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/218264918</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Quest Continues for a Tablet PC - NYTimes.com</title><description>&lt;img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr28htXipf1qz4tjzo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/technology/05tablet.html?_r=2"&gt;The Quest Continues for a Tablet PC - NYTimes.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/Z5g_pAO4EKQ/205317708</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/205317708</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:17:52 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/205317708</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqvr8n9yep1qz4tjzo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/wQCJ7UcsOKc/202465823</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/202465823</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:19:35 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/202465823</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>blyberg.net   » Catalog Card Generator</title><description>&lt;img src="http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqvotfeUE51qz4tjzo1_400.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blyberg.net/card-generator/"&gt;blyberg.net   » Catalog Card Generator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/KPyu0lUSeBc/202445315</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/202445315</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:27:15 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/202445315</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>"Keller manages remarkably well to connect theory, empirical work and explorative design into..."</title><description>“Keller manages remarkably well to connect theory, empirical work and explorative design into knowledge contributions – which is the reason why I find it a good example of scholarly interaction design research.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;My book made it to Jonas Löwgrens &lt;a href="http://webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo/idBookshelf/"&gt;interaction design bookshelf&lt;/a&gt; (with some very nice remarks).&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/XQsg39XfqOI/199413682</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/199413682</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:49:14 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/199413682</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>"…technology advances have made it possible for students to not only conceive of amazing new things,..."</title><description>“…technology advances have made it possible for students to not only conceive of amazing new things, but also to prototype them…”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Joy Mountford at the &lt;a href="http://blogs.intel.com/idf/2009/09/idf_day_one_whirlwind.php#more"&gt;Intel Developers Forum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/YsC7G0z8z0k/199001418</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/199001418</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:31:45 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/199001418</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="435" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6747788&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6747788&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6747788&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="435"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://kottke.org/09/09/barack-obamas-amazingly-consistent-smile"&gt;Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/nF4ztYn7R2k/196912787</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/196912787</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:17:32 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/196912787</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Trooping in the rain (via Kottke.org)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqh6enDgfT1qz4tjzo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/st3f4n"&gt;Trooping in the rain&lt;/a&gt; (via &lt;a href="http://kottke.org/09/09/what-do-stormtroopers-do-on-their-day-off"&gt;Kottke.org&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/8nwWMUWYZ6w/195739590</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/195739590</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:23:11 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/195739590</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Nice cache, Google.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://23.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqawmxW9Vn1qz4tjzo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&amp;q=oxo&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8"&gt;Nice cache, Google.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/1ldlg9zDufE/193037192</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/193037192</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:06:33 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/193037192</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>"There is an odd and silly dance that plays itself out around the developing world, where certain..."</title><description>“There is an odd and silly dance that plays itself out around the developing world, where certain goodgraced individuals and communities have learned to respond correctly to “development projects.””&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://bidoun.com/10_glory.php"&gt;Bidoun Magazine - Art &amp; Culture from the Middle East&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/wzEp0Xxzrtc/192961469</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/192961469</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:59:05 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/192961469</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>AD Digitaal - Tate and KeyPing</title><description>&lt;img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq7ja0sLnj1qz4tjzo1_250.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ad.nl/ad/nl/1005/Digitaal/article/detail/431215/2009/09/19/Oma-thuis-lampje-brandt.dhtml"&gt;AD Digitaal - Tate and KeyPing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/FjL3Zr_FB2E/191597433</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/191597433</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:25:08 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/191597433</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>GREAT DESIGNERS STEAL by Jeff Veen. The best iPhone design...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8CtC_qbQ51U&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8CtC_qbQ51U&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;GREAT DESIGNERS STEAL by Jeff Veen. The best iPhone design comparison I’ve seen until now and the first time I get a good perspective on Cargo Cult.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/KrLSIKWqgNk/188515800</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/188515800</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:14:40 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/188515800</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Ecological apple (via Vimeo)</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4543690&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4543690&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4543690&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ecological apple (via &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/4543690"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/McC7lnONLLM/177894980</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/177894980</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:53:07 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/177894980</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>bmdesign:

Razzle Dazzle « Things We’ve Seen
an addition to...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpb84jr2ow1qzokqbo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bmdesign.tumblr.com/post/177351147/razzle-dazzle-things-weve-seen-an-addition-to"&gt;bmdesign&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thingsweveseen.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/razzle-dazzle/"&gt;Razzle Dazzle « Things We’ve Seen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;an addition to Kar Yan’s awesome post.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/viSH6EtceJ0/177791492</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/177791492</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:30:27 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/177791492</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Total eclipse of the Heart in flowchart (via koufukuron)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp8ydbw66A1qz4tjzo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=840B27zYfOk"&gt;Total eclipse of the Heart&lt;/a&gt; in flowchart (via&lt;a href="http://jeannr.tumblr.com/post/165291081/i-made-a-flow-chart-that-we-might-better"&gt; koufukuron&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/0POICR4agls/176298574</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/176298574</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/176298574</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Steve Jobs is… the Snow Leopard (via Roughly Drafted)
Just as...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp8ed1xLJK1qz4tjzo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Steve Jobs is… the Snow Leopard (via &lt;a href="http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/08/29/steve-jobs-is-the-snow-leopard/"&gt;Roughly Drafted&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just as hard to &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vQDZXlXaAI"&gt;capture&lt;/a&gt; and much prettierthan his &lt;a href="http://forum.roughlydrafted.com/images/longhorn2.jpg"&gt;arch nemesis&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/EHB__2e_Cc4/176144035</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/176144035</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:03:00 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/176144035</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Nice visualization in the Engadget Kindle design contest (via...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp1e0wae911qz4tjzo1_250.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nice visualization in the Engadget &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/engadgets-kindle-design-contest-we-have-winners/"&gt;Kindle design contest&lt;/a&gt; (via &lt;a href="http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2009/08/25/metaphors-for-storytelling/"&gt;Adaptive Path&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/8-x07Q8QpW4/172959199</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/172959199</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:12:32 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/172959199</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>My Persona has a little too much management &amp; religion...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koxp901v0x1qz4tjzo1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;My Persona has a little too much management &amp; religion compared to art &amp; design. Created with &lt;a href="http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html"&gt;Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SerendipitousEncounters/~3/o18mn-ERxmU/171283315</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/171283315</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:24:36 +0200</pubDate><feedburner:origLink>http://tumblr.forinspirationonly.com/post/171283315</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>
