A marketing manager for Apple’s ingenious but ultimately misguided and unsuccessful rethinking of how software should be conceived, developed and marketed, looks back on what can be learned from the effort. Very, very good post. Via Daring Fireball.
“The premier, educational online archive dedicated to the life and work of Alvin Lustig.”
This visionary publisher of Eros and Avant Garde magazines was a frequent collaborator with the designer and typographer Herb Lubalin.
Transcript and audio archive of the Senator’s argument against net neutrality.
Free downloads of these classic, much-admired, now public domain, animated adaptations from the 1940s.
A powerful essay on the current, moribund state of design criticism. Highly recommended.
A really terrific weblog post about using a soft touch when one is inclined to throw hard. The subject, ostensibly, is baseball and soul music, but it’s got a universal relevance: “Vulnerability is often the greatest sign of strength, the most powerful tool, no matter what art form you are talking about.”
Upcoming game from Ambrosia Software looks like a high school kid’s notebook come to life. Genius.
Online companion to an exhibition at the Library of Congress honoring the venerable Washington Post political cartoonist.
The actor, best known for his portrayal of Leo McGarry on “The West Wing” died on Friday in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack. He’ll be missed.
Perhaps overly simplistic, but exactly what a disinterested public would find useful in trying to evaluate candidates.
Until 6:00p EST, the company is giving away free registration codes for Opera.
Movable Type plug-in with a great name re-encodes ampersands into standards-friendly entities.
“Rather than calling for Mr. Rove to be fired, they ought to be grateful to him for telling the truth.” Wow. Amazing. They really wrote that.
Illuminating anecdotal history of how a small shareware product became a career and a widely respected software utility.
“Technically, you would only need one time traveler convention.”
Former colleagues are building these space-age and eco-friendly lofts in Austin, TX.
“Apple Computer's disgusting attack on three online journalism sites… has taken a nasty turn. Too bad it’s not surprising — and journalists of all kinds should be paying attention.”
And the most detestable baseball jersey ever made, to boot.
I wish the Times would do this powerful image justice by uploading a properly rasterized version to replace this crappy GIF.
The irony of that headline is delicious. Completely delicious.
Adds backup, restore and migration features that let you get data in and out of your servers. Worked like a charm when I installed it, and gave me a huge sense of relief once I had performed a backup.
Hugely engrossing photographic project and book documents how New York has changed in small and large ways.
Ron Avitzur recounts how he snuck into Apple headquarters every day for six months to write software for them for free. An amazing tale.
Not so fast, Kerry fans: “Even a perfect mid-day exit poll — and there is no such animal — may not be any better at picking a winner than the half-time scores in any given football game on Sunday.”