futuraprime:whimsies

Be Wrong As Often As Possible

2009-10-08T04:13:13+00:00

It's an entertaining rant, but it's the bit at the end—“Programming is an exercise in overcoming how wrong you’ve been in the past”—that's particularly noteworthy.

Ira Glass On Good Taste

2009-06-27T09:31:56+00:00

This is a great little piece from Ira Glass on taste and creative work. (HT to Dustin Curtis). He's talking about video, but it's just as important for design. It takes a long time to live up to your ambition.

We Love Typography

2009-06-03T05:23:12+00:00

Somehow I've omitted linking this before. From the wonderful I Love Typography comes its communal counterpart, a collection of delightful typography that brightens my day.

Dollar ReDe$ign Project

2009-05-25T14:43:08+00:00

A collection of redesigned versions of American currency, from the silly to the fantastic.

Future of Microsoft

2009-04-30T05:58:07+00:00

Via Daring Fireball. It's interesting, I've been using Windows Vista for the first time and I actually like it. They made a version of Windows that a Mac user can appreciate. I still run in to a lot of things I find missing from OS X, but this is actually a pretty decent step up in terms of UI.

New York: City of Spam?

2009-04-17T12:37:42+00:00

I'd like to note that my post on New York has 1400 spam comments. The next highest post has 11. I think that says something about the Big Apple, don't you?

CSS Layouts, Solved

2009-04-10T06:26:36+00:00

Matthew James Taylor has created some really amazing CSS liquid layouts here -- far and away the best solution I've seen. The result is fantastic; the solution is ridiculously complicated. Alas.

Tropicana Failure

2009-04-06T19:47:10+00:00

Tropicana's catastrophic (and now revoked) redesign led to a 20% drop in sales, they say. Probably because no one could figure out which carton contained which variety of OJ any longer.

Diotima Classic

2009-03-26T04:33:41+00:00

Whoa. Now that is some serious handwriting. I would never be able to do that. (Yes, I've tried.)

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

2009-03-21T06:15:44+00:00

This was a really insightful piece Clay Shirky wrote on the newspaper industry's disastrous encounter with the internet. I like his more general discussion of revolutions as times where things are breaking faster than they can be replaced.