seldo: This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”, “optimized” UI for Windows Explorer. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it. The post is a sort of masterpiece of crazy rationalization, but I think my favourite part may be this screenshot: Here, they proudly overlay the UI with data from their research into how often various commands are used. They use this to show that “the commands that make up 84% […]
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naveen: dascola: minusmanhattan: Foursquare pro tip. Haha. Love this. moments like these ‘extending’ a feature are my most favorite
Almost everything is too cold
pegobry: Pivoting from theology to art of living for a second. Almost everything these days is served too cold. This is one of those things that isn’t really debatable. It’s a biological fact that cold temperature has an anesthetic effect on taste buds. So, all else being equal, something you put in… Almost everything is too cold
lookingforinspiration: “World Record” – Threadless.com
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Why Samuel Eto’ o deserves €20 million, etc.
**UPDATE** Was pointed out to me that I missed two titles for Eto’o (not counting Inter). Changes will reflect that when I get a minute to make em. My brother Pumi wrote me an email earlier today saying that he had been looking at Eto’o’s Wikipedia page and was shocked by the stats for his time at Barcelona, and that it seems suspicious (and racist) that they are jocking David Villa for being such a […]
Excerpt from “Freedom for my People”
The autobiography of Z.K. Matthews, my great grandfather. I’m so embarrassingly late to reading it, but so glad that I finally am. This is sometime in the early 1920s, late 1910s. It was borne in on me and my brothers at a very early age that our father was an uncommon man. For one thing, in most African families, work around the home was women’s work. So we were vastly impressed by the fact that whenever […]
http://kanyi.tumblr.com/post/9317061639/audio_player_iframe/kanyi/tumblr_lqet0e1bfv1qatcg0?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fkanyi%2F9317061639%2Ftumblr_lqet0e1bfv1qatcg0 Oren Lavie – A Dream Within A Dream
iseffcom: In case we’ve begun to think web search is a solved problem. Patiently waiting for the semantic web.
Dope pic.
Musings 