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austinkleon: Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. I had no idea this was coming out. The original 2007 essay—a “plagiarism” woven together from passages from other writers—was a huge influence on me and Steal and probably a bunch of other people. (Heck, David Shields took the idea and turned it into a whole…
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Storyboards and Segues makes it really easy to design and prototype iOS apps at the same time
Storyboards and Segues makes it really easy to design and prototype iOS apps at the same time immerseyoursoulincode: When I worked on the XBox 360, all the Interaction Design was documented in Visio diagrams which were manually translated into Flash prototypes for usability studies. I had wanted a solution like what XCode now offers with…
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thenearsightedmonkey: Meet me by the weeping willow tree. The Near-Sighted Monkey’s favorite cartoonist, Bil Keane, has died. “He was just our dad. The great thing about him is he worked at home, we got to see him all the time, and we would all sit down and have dinner together. What you see in the…
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nevver: Dead at 89, “Family Circus” creator Bil Keane
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thenearsightedmonkey: I was a kid growing up in a troubled household. We didn’t have books in the house but we did have the daily paper and I remember picking out Family Circus before I could really read. There was something about the life on the other side of that circle that looked pretty good. For…
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PhD preface
augerloizeau: “… the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonise the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease called the great loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. Those few who survived found no welcome on Mars. But more rockets arrived from earth,…
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nevver: Evil flourishes when good men do nothing.
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jillsies: 17th Century Modernism? The abstract paintings shown here are not by Kazimir Malevich or Paul Klee but by Hindu tantra devotees from Indian cities like Jodhpur and Chomu, the anonymous heirs to a pictorial tradition that dates to the 1600s. Painted on salvaged paper and rarely measuring more than a foot high, the images…
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Apple has built a closed ecosystem where it exerts control over nearly every piece of the supply chain, from design to retail store. Because of its volume—and its occasional ruthlessness—Apple gets big discounts on parts, manufacturing capacity, and air freight. “Operations expertise is as big an asset for Apple as product innovation or marketing,” says…
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kateoplis: Chacaltaya mountain in Bolivia with an elevation of 17,785 ft once had one of the highest glaciers in South America. The 18,000-year-old glacier had the world’s highest ski run – the first built in Latin America. After losing 80% of its area in the last 2 decades, it finally disappeared in 2009, much faster than scientists had predicted. All that remains is a bedrock. Photo…