- Social Media Propaganda Posters – "Be brief! The enemy might be listening in!"
- Norway attacks: Oslo hit by bomb explosion and youths shot at camp – Shocking. Both because it's Norway and because it's a city that I've spent a lot of time in.
Tag Archives: design
My delicious.com bookmarks for February 10th through February 14th
- The Mac App Store: It’s an honor thing – "Apple’s approach is simple. It’s an honor thing. The company believes that, given the choice, people will do the right thing. It also understands that anti-piracy techniques don’t stop pirates, but they do get in the way of honest users."
- Nokia’s 15-year tango to avoid Microsoft – "[PC manufacturers] found it wasn't worth the effort to differentiate their PCs from the competition, in what had become a commodity business." The reason's behind Nokia's original decision not to licence code from Microsoft in the nineties hasn't really changed, which makes today a sad day.
- Doctor Who Infographic – Everything you ever wanted to know about Dr Who but were too afraid to ask…
My delicious.com bookmarks for February 8th through February 9th
- The rise and rise of the cognitive elite – "It seems unfair that footballers, bankers and tycoons earn more money than they know what to do with whereas jobless folk and single parents struggle to pay the rent, notes Mr Saunders. Yet it also seems unfair to take money from those who have worked hard and give it to those who have not, or to take away the profits of those who have risked their life savings to bring a new invention to market in order to help those who have risked nothing."
- Jaguar E-Type turns 50 – Some designs can stand the test of time. The Jaguar E-Type is one of them.
- iOS Debugging Magic – Some great iOS debugging hints.
My delicious.com bookmarks for January 23rd through January 29th
- How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail – This is a really cool, very subtle detail seen in the Mail app on the iPhone.
- The end of the net as we know it – "ISPs are threatening to cripple websites that don't pay them first." ISP's want to be considered common carriers (i.e., not responsible for the content on their network) when it suits them and also charge more for some data. Surely they have to pick one?
My delicious.com bookmarks for November 8th through November 10th
- Nov. 10, 1999: Metric Math Mistake Muffed Mars Meteorology Mission – Sometimes the simplest of mistakes have the most dramatic consequences.
- Linotype: The Film – The revolution in printing before DTP… soon in documentary form.
My delicious.com bookmarks for September 19th through September 21st
- Aerial views of New York – Neat pictures of Manhattan (and bits of New Jersey).
- Wallace and Gromit to appear on Christmas stamps – For once: Christmas stamps that I approve of.
- My First Week with the iPhone – I always assumed that a touch device like the iPhone would be pretty much useless for blind users. It's good to be wrong.