Adrian doing Super Mario Bros.
Scribbling.net
Miscellaneous media by Gina Trapani
Why I Still Use Windows Despite the Peer Pressure
“You know what? Macs are too hip. Oh, look at me! I do graphic design! I wear women’s jeans and hang out in coffee shops! I’m a DJ! Well good for you. My computer is not a fashion statement. It’s a computer.”
A visualization of how Firefox 3 renders Mozilla.org (via Google Video)
Nixon's Resignation Letter
Shorter, but not as funny as Stewart’s.
Julian diving again, alternate edit (via Tom.Lechner)
Innovation by firing people
Scott: “If your team is flailing or struggling to resolve a creative decision, create more autocracy. Either get the dead weight out of the room, or pick the person in the you as the leader believe has the best perspective and grant them your authority - let them make the call.”
Easy to miss things you’re not looking for
Superdelegates On the Fence and in the Spotlight
“When [the campaign] asked me to call you,” she recalled Etheridge saying, “I said, ‘I can’t call a superdelegate. What am I going to say to a superdelegate?’ They gave me some talking points and your bio, and after I read through your biography, I said, ‘Aha! They want the gay one to call the gay one.’ “
Slumber Parties Go Digital - NYTimes.com
“It is a rule of Web development that if you want a vital community, it has to start with women. It is just a higher level of discourse and behavior. If a site starts male, it stays male.”
Cookie Monster Not So Sure About the Internet
- Me: This guy has the personality of a pencil eraser.
- Her: Why would you insult pencil erasers like that?
- Me: ...
- Her: At least pencil erasers are useful.
Exposed
“…if Emily Gould comes off as crazy, then you haven’t experienced the weird mind-fuck that is the neurosis soup of blogging, privacy, exposure, and the intoxicating feedback loop of online commenting. Is it sad that so much of a fragile ego can be built on comments from strangers on the Internet? Probably, but I dare you to ignore dozens (or hundreds!) of people telling you every day how awesome or awful you are.”