This is a collection of bicycles photos, interface examples and patterns and other random thoughts. Assumedly it will be unpopular.
"Promising to make you look wired and magically promote your content in social networks, the Like, Retweet, and 1 buttons occupy a good spot on pretty much every page of the World Wide Web. Because of this, almost every major site and world brand is providing free advertising for Twitter and Facebook. But do these buttons work? It’s hard to say. What we know for sure is that these magic buttons promote their own brands — and that they tend to make you look a little desperate."
30th May 2012
"Maybe in twenty years we’ll think of Google primarily as a vision company—augmenting our vision, helping us share it—and, oh wow, did you realize they once, long ago, sold ads? Like Nokia’s first business selling rubber boots."
"In technical language, this field is the study of “rent seeking,” in which people or companies get rich because of their power, not because of their ideas."
Amazing to see how NYC both defies - and fits - some of my own preconceived notions of diversity. The map is the best part.
"The irrationality at work is that voters apportion a huge share of credit and blame to ruling parties for factors that lay mostly — not entirely, but mostly — out of their control. What’s more, they vote on macroeconomic conditions, but what they get is a whole host of additional policies along with it that often have no relationship at all to the cause of their vote."
“We are so vulnerable to being hurt, that we are given the capacity to distort as a gift.”
"the character of modern life is that everything falls apart"
"If television produced the global village, the Internet produces the global psyche: everyone keyed in like a neuron, so that to the eyes of a watching Martian we are really part of a single planetary brain. Contraptions don’t change consciousness; contraptions are part of consciousness. We may not act better than we used to, but we sure think differently than we did."
"I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out."
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