Delayed Echoes

The industrial skyline really works in this photo.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:42:23 -0800

The industrial skyline really works in this photo.

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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:33:40 -0800

Stop Your Search Engines

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:31:15 -0800

I’m not wishing the Internet away. It has become so integral to my work — to my life — that I honestly can’t recall what I did without it. But it has allowed us to reflexively indulge every passing interest, to expect answers to every fleeting question, to believe that if we search long enough, surf a little further, we can hit the dry land of knowing “everything that happens” and that such knowledge is both possible and desirable. In the end, though, there is just more sea, and as alluring as we can find the perpetual pursuit of little thoughts, the net result may only be to prevent us from forming the big ones.

(via Popwuping)

"There was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:41:50 -0800

“There was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.”

- The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

From BoingBoing’s review of Critter Crunch. The...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:46:16 -0700

From BoingBoing’s review of Critter Crunch. The screenshots look amazing.

Zhangyuzhuan village by the Hong River in Xiping county, Henan...

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:50:02 -0700

Zhangyuzhuan village by the Hong River in Xiping county, Henan province, (河南省西平县洪河边的张于庄村) 22-year-old Zhu Xiaoyan (朱小燕) had a tumor in her stomach in 2007. She died after a number of hospital treatments on July 2008. 4-year-old girl with her grandfather came to mother’s tomb. April 2009 2

This photo, from a series on pollution in China, is the saddest of them all. Nothing is as real until you see the people that it directly impacts.

Winter’s Leaves

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:57:46 -0700

Winter’s Leaves

Elliot Brood - Write It All Down

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:45:06 -0700

Elliot Brood - Write It All Down

What Startups Are Really Like

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:16:41 -0700

What Startups Are Really Like:

Interesting advice, even for non-startups:

I learnt never to bet on any one feature or deal or anything to bring you success. It is never a single thing. Everything is just incremental and you just have to keep doing lots of those things until you strike something.

The 4 ways sound affects us from Julian Treasure, with this...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:45:50 -0700

The 4 ways sound affects us from Julian Treasure, with this interesting fact: Productivity goes down by 66% in an open-plan office.

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Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:59:45 -0700

Exit Clov - Beast Simone

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:59:29 -0700

Exit Clov - Beast Simone

"To discover great hacks, we must always be searching for the true nature of our reality, while..."

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:56:15 -0700

“To discover great hacks, we must always be searching for the true nature of our reality, while acknowledging that we do not currently possess the truth, and never will.”

- Paul Buchheit

Kashmir, India: A man lights fire crackers on the eve of Diwali,...

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:07:13 -0700

Kashmir, India: A man lights fire crackers on the eve of Diwali, the festival of lights, at a market

So very cute: Nendo’s Sketchbook from Fubiz.

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:05:46 -0700

So very cute: Nendo’s Sketchbook from Fubiz.

Temari, a photoset on Flickr of Japanese threadballs. (via Data...

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:05:48 -0700

Temari, a photoset on Flickr of Japanese threadballs. (via Data Is Nature)

Taken in a Swedish rug factory, Kasthall. (via NotCot)

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:04:10 -0700

Taken in a Swedish rug factory, Kasthall. (via NotCot)

Reading Radar

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:02:12 -0700

Reading Radar:

A mashup of the New York Times bestseller list + basic information from Amazon, in a simple interface. What a great idea. I know I’ll be checking this quite frequently. (via BoingBoing)

Sidewalk art by Martin Sobey: Ninety nine percent of the people...

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:02:09 -0700

Sidewalk art by Martin Sobey:

Ninety nine percent of the people I encounter overwhelmingly support it, but really most people don’t even see it.

Learning To Be Lucky

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:03:46 -0700

Learning To Be Lucky:

unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and as a result miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.