November 2007
72 posts
Keyboard vs. Mouse at Apple - AskTog →
#1 Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing. #2 The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding. #interrobang
October 2007
35 posts
christmasgorilla: Unsubscribing from Mashable and Lifehacker was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. (via Twitter / christmasgorilla)
Control: or Why is interactive design different... →
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Subtraction: If It Looks Like a Cow, Swims Like a... →
Which Came First? (Part Three): Can George, Lionel... →
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“quotiens surgit totiens cadit”
– “falls over as often as it stands up”
christmasgorilla: Great business name: Established & Sons (they make furniture). (via Twitter / christmasgorilla)
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“If you think far enough into the future, and realize that the iPhone is...”
– Chris Messina
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christmasgorilla: I like it when technology people quote literary references. I wish it happened more often. But get me away from latinate preoccupations. (via Twitter / christmasgorilla)
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A Brief Message: Arrogance and Humility →
The iPod is an unanswerable repudiation to people who don’t believe design is arrogance; MySpace demonstrates that users prize participation, even at the expense of clarity.
Nick Denton: The long and illustrious history of... →
christmasgorilla: I think it’s revealing of my internal hierarchies that I always misspell pumpkin as pumpking. (via Twitter / christmasgorilla)
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christmasgorilla: Just hit 200,000 miles in the old rambler. (via Twitter / christmasgorilla)
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The Right Kind of Stupid - Twitter - New York... →
fascinating data on web service usage
FriendFeed is a new service for aggregating your online presence. It was founded by some ex-Googlers. They are currently in private beta and you can be sure that their user-base is geeky. They recently blogged about which services people used and which they used most often. The two charts below are really interesting: A disproportionate number of FriendFeeders are Googlers. Another thing I found...
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Reason Magazine - The Secrets of Intangible Wealth →
The average American has access to over $418,000 in intangible wealth, while the stay-at-home Mexican’s intangible wealth is just $34,000.
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“dialing a number now connects you with a person rather than a place”
– the impact of mobile telephony. quote unattributed in a tweet from Chris Sacca.
christmasgorilla: Spotted: La Segunda Guerra Mundial - For Dummies (via Twitter / christmasgorilla)
christmasgorilla: I love stock photography. Searching for ‘text message’ returns images of fortune cookies. (via Twitter / christmasgorilla)
“I want the ancient pleasure that probably goes back to the cave: to be blown...”
– Stephen King
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Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? (Part... →
Photography, evidence, truth, journalism and one of the best blog posts of all time.
iPhone Human Interface Guidelines →
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