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Have you ever tried to imagine the immense size of the universe? Not an easy task is it. This video helps.

Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, “We don’t serve your type.”

“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.” -Jack Handey

03.24.09 | # | Start the conversation

Jakob Nielsen, on the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh:

During its first decade, the Mac offered clearly superior usability compared to competing personal computer platforms (DOS, Windows, OS/2). Not until Windows 95 did the PC start to approximate Mac-level usability. Despite this Mac advantage, PCs have sold vastly better in every single year since 1984, and the Mac has yet to exceed a single-digit market share.

The Mac’s miserable marketplace performance seems to pose a strong argument against usability. Why bother, if it doesn’t sell? The counter-argument is that usability is the only reason Mac survived.

Yeah. I can dig that reasoning.

Via.

02.16.09 | # | Start the conversation

If you are bored, this might be worth your time.

PsychoTypograph from microbians on Vimeo.

01.14.09 | # | Start the conversation

Traci pointed out a neat little comic to me today. Every woman should read it. ‘Tis hard to pee straight.

01.08.09 | # | Start the conversation

A friend just wrote a few words about how Facebook has utterly changed what war means to soldiers and citizens back home alike. Short and worth the read.

01.06.09 | # | Start the conversation

I occasionally listen to the podcast for This American Life. It’s pretty good, and I recommend that you listen to the episode about a few people ruining it for the rest of us. What I especially liked was the single family that caused an outbreak of the Measles because they didn’t vaccinate their children. Some of these things are really about social responsibility.

01.02.09 | # | Start the conversation

Who do you think wins?

12.31.08 | # | Start the conversation

This HD video taken from the Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede disappearing behind it’s parent planet is remarkable to the point of looking like it’s computer generated.

12.28.08 | # | Start the conversation

Some perspective from the Late Late Show.

12.26.08 | # | Start the conversation

I was going through my photos today clearing space on my hard drive and I found this nifty photo of an auction business in Butte, Montana: ebutte Auctions.

I’ve been debating notifying Ebay and letting them know, but for now, it’s worth a laugh.

Seriously though, this kind of copyright infringement can get a business in some real trouble. I don’t know how they ever thought that it might work.

11.27.08 | # | Start the conversation

It looks like the Star Wars spin-off world has been pretty active. Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken just released Star Wars Episode II (sadly, with ads) and I just spotted a trailer for an upcoming movie of a bunch of kids who break into George Lucas’s ranch to steal a copy of the movie before it is released.

11.23.08 | # | Start the conversation

It’s official, Dark Matter just came out of the cold.

“It comes in a ‘magic volume’ which happens to correspond to an amount which is 30 million times the mass of the Sun.

“It looks like you cannot ever pack it smaller than about 300 parsecs - 1,000 light-years; this stuff will not let you. That tells you a speed actually - about 9km/s - at which the dark matter particles are moving because they are moving too fast to be compressed into a smaller scale.

“These are the first properties other than existence that we’ve been able determine.”

11.21.08 | # | Start the conversation

Ohhh. I can’t wait.

11.18.08 | # | Start the conversation

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Just discovered Chris Gilmour has some very interesting cardboard art.

11.17.08 | # | Start the conversation

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11.17.08 | # | Start the conversation

One website dares to ask the question…is graphic design art?

I don’t know about the whole field of graphics design. But I think of web design as closer to designing a car than to creating art. Websites are meant to be used, not just appreciated. Design isn’t art. Design is, well, design.

11.12.08 | # | 2 Comments

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