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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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immerseyoursoulincode: God’s Comic by John Powers (via generator.x) oh my…
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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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1m x 1m x 1m 3D printer! (via MAKE | LeBigRep, a Giant 3D Printer)
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fastcompany: “People know more about their iPhone than they do their own health,” points out Travis Bogard, Jawbone’s VP of product development. “So how do we make them consumers of their own wellness?” Today Jawbone is finally unwrapping their attempt to solve the problem: The UP, a $100 wristband, smartphone app, and web app trio…
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sum1: Take note that the image is taken in the Google cafeteria in San Francisco. So it stands for ruthless capitalism now as Google indeed doesn’t ask you for permission before grabbing your data. The artist, Eddie Colla, might have had something else in mind. street-art: sum1: If You Want to Achieve Greatness Stop Asking…
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A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design A great conversation about the things we make, or aspire to make… In 1968 — three years before the invention of the microprocessor — Alan Kay stumbled across Don Bitzer’s early flat-panel display. Its resolution was 16 pixels by 16 pixels — an impressive improvement over…