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How Companies Learn Your Secrets →

youmightfindyourself: By CHARLES DUHIGG NY Times, Published: February 16, 2012 Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that? ” Pole has a master’s degree in...

Feb 19th

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Jan 7th

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Dave Morin: Resolutions for 2012: Whip myself–and... →

davemorin: BY DAVE MORIN, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, PATH (AS TOLD TO COLLEEN TAYLOR FOR GIGAOM’S 12 TECH LEADER’S RESOLUTONS FOR 2012) Dave Morin is the CEO and co-founder of Path, a social media sharing site that emphasizes privacy controls. Morin is also an investor in and advisor to a number of startups…. Great read.

Jan 6th

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What About the Apps?

While many brands are clamoring for the new “Timeline” profile that Facebook is slowly rolling out, few are taking the time to thing about what the timeline will do to their custom tabs (apps).

Dec 8th

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On reading →

bobulate: We asked interaction design students this season to name which book influenced their pursuit in interaction design. As a result, a holiday book list that instigated 32 paths: Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak; recommended by Stephanie Aaron Moral Animal, Robert Wright; recommended by Clint Beharry The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Mad-Made...

Dec 26th

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I’m at Dublin House Follow me on Gowalla

Dec 4th

I’m at Clearview Cinemas “127 Hours” Follow me on Gowalla

Dec 4th

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Oct 15th

Hi Tumblr.

I’ve not forgotten about you. I swear.

Jul 30th

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Watch

It’s no secret that I’m a sucker for a good cupcake. And by good, I mean the kind that you make at home out of a box. Especially funfetti. So, needless to say, after watching this video I’m dying to turn on the oven and bake some tasty treats. Produced by Kamp Grizzly for Johnny Cupcakes.

May 20th

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May Day, May Day

Holy crap, another mix! Every blogger and their mother seems to put out mixes now a days, and I figured that I might as well join the party. So, with that said, this is the first of what I hope becomes a monthly feature here on the old blog. Each month I’ll choose 8 tracks that fit a particular theme or just happen to be tracks that have been in heavy rotation for me. This...

May 14th

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Is the notion of ownership dead?

As everything moves to the cloud, do we all really care if we own anything anymore? Take music for example. It used to be that you’d go down to the music store (do they still even exist?) and buy your favorite artist’s new CD. Fast-forward a few years and we would go to iTunes to buy the same music digitally (or illegally download it). In both scenarios we’d “own” the...

May 11th

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Why do public toilets have a cut-out?

In a recent post on his blog, Alex Bogusky openly wondered why there hasn’t been a trend to go “industrial” in residential bathrooms. While nearly every new kitchen boasts industrial appliances like Viking ranges and Sub Zero refrigerators (or simply stainless steel cheaper alternatives), you never see urinals, toilets with cut-out seats, or automatic faucets and soap...

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Apr 26th

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Live recording of Thom Yorke at Coachella...

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Even the Smallest Details Matter →

You can always learn something from people who do things better. In this interesting article about Apple’s product photos, Fast Company magazine (my favorite) details why the iPad product shots from the iPad announcement display the time as 9:41.

Apr 9th

“Of all the people in human history who ever reached the age of 65, half are...”

– The shock of the old: Welcome to the elderly age (via zachklein) (via jessicabigarel)

Apr 9th

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Words of advice from Frank Chimero →

In a post announcing that he’s found an intern, Frank Chimero offers designers great advice on tidying up their portfolios. Congratulations to my new intern Sarah Deann! She’ll be starting tomorrow, and we’ll begin digging into the backload of client work, documentation and personal projects that needs to be addressed. We’ll also be doing some portfolio guidance, working on a book, and...

Apr 9th

Apr 7th

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2 spaces or not 2 spaces? That is the question

It might be strange, but up to a few months ago I had always thought that it was proper (without debate really) to add two spaces after every period in a sentence. I don’t recall who taught me to do this or when really, but I’ve been doing this my entire life and never been told different; not even by Mavis Beacon. While reviewing some content on my company’s website, I noticed...

Mar 25th

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Instapaper for iPad

I probably shouldn’t admit it, but I spent a lot of time browsing the internet. My typical day of browsing usually involves a quick check of ESPN.com, followed by MetsBlog, then onto a few design blogs, and various sites linked to by the people I follow on Twitter. In the course of a day, it’s a good bet that I’ve found a ton of cool things to read. The only problem is that I...

Mar 24th

“To our (unborn) sons; may they have hot mothers and rich fathers.”

– David “Kappo” Kaplan

Mar 23rd

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We've all come from some pretty famous places

While reading “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson, I came across something that I’m not sure I ever truly knew, but always wondered. Namely, that the atoms that make up our bodies have been recycled and made up other things in this universe long before we were even a twinkle in our parent’s eyes. Bryson writes, “Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several...

Mar 20th

“Hurt people hurt people.”

– Greenberg

Mar 19th

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Mar 19th

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Watch

This is an amazingly moving look at the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti shot by Khalid Mohtaseb with his Canon 5D Mark 2 while on assignment. It is truly stunning, sad, and beautiful.

Mar 19th

Books in the age of the iPad →

jonathanmoore: “Print is dying. Digital is surging. Everyone is confused. Good riddance.” Excellent article by Craig Mod on the future of books in a digital world, content forms, sustainability, and book layout design. Plus, the layout of the article is fantastic! Take 10-15 minutes to read this article & reblog it. I highly recommend it.

Mar 16th

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“Don’t smell like sunsets and baby powder. Smell like jet fighters and...”

– Old Spice

Mar 14th

Back to Blogging (Part 27)

Yes, I know I haven’t posted anything here in a long time. The truth is that I’ve been trying for months to build a custom blog in Wordpress that I fell in love with. Well, sometimes you spend a lot of time looking for something that’s been under your nose all the while and in this case it’s Tumblr. Tumblr is easy. It’s easy to post new entries and easy to skin....

Mar 14th

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What online music retailers can learn from my...

After being gifted with a login for the Spotify music service about a month ago, I’ve found myself listening to more music than I ever have. Each day, I find myself crossing musical genres, discovering new bands, or re-listening to the albums that defined my childhood. And in the course of all of this, I’ve realized just how flawed online music retail truly is. For those of you who are...

Nov 19th

“Fellows, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your...”

– The most interesting man in the world

Apr 24th