February 2011
7 posts
“Ego is weakness asking for attention.”
– - @rands
Gladwell Challenges Our Fixation on "New" Social... →
But surely the least interesting fact about them is that some of the protesters may (or may not) have at one point or another employed some of the tools of the new media to communicate with one another. Please. People protested and brought down governments before Facebook was invented. They did it before the Internet came along. Barely anyone in East Germany in the nineteen-eighties had a...
John Gruber's Success Metric for Speaking →
For me as a speaker, my favorite thing to hear afterwards is something along the lines of “I disagree with you about (some major point of the talk), but, I must admit, you made a good case for that, and have given me something to think about.” I don’t want to get up on stage and tell the audience only what they already know, or what they already believe. I think public presentations are ideally...
"Momentous events in Egypt have reverberated... →
Emphasis mine:
The momentous events in Egypt, the most populous Arab country and once the axis on which the Arab world revolved, have reverberated across the region. King Abdullah II of Jordan fired his Cabinet after protests there Tuesday, and organizers in Yemen and Syria, with their own authoritarian rulers, have called for protests.
Musical subway map →
Conductor: www.mta.me from Alexander Chen on Vimeo.
Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 diagram.
Speculation on the next MacBook Pro →
Marco Arment:
Given how awesome the new MacBook Air is, I’m interested to see what Apple does with the other laptops in the lineup.
The Benefits of Being a Morning Person
Shawn Blanc on “Rising Early”:
In the morning my mind is more clear; there is not yet the accumulation of “mental clutter” from the activities and worries of the day; the whole day seems like a blank canvas. And because of the endless possibilities the morning brings with it, I feel liberated and comfortable to do some of my best work of the day. Also it’s the time of day when coffee...