April 2009
28 posts
WatchOil in Water by Shawn Knol
Watchplayingforchange.com: peace through music — Stand By Me
A song played by musicians from all around the world, adding their parts independently from each other.
“I want to choose my words carefully here, so I’m not misunderstood,”...”
– Charles Wang, CEO of Computer Associates on Gartner Research
A List Apart: In Defense of Eye Candy →
Stephen P. Anderson:
Researchers in Japan setup two ATMs, “identical in function, the number of buttons, and how they worked.” The only difference was that one machine’s buttons and screens were arranged more attractively than the other.
In both Japan and Israel (where this study was repeated) researchers observed that subjects encountered fewer difficulties with the more attractive machine. The...
“I used to apologize for every little thing I said or did, or hadn’t said or...”
–
Cary Grant (via inwaves) (via onherway)
WatchUNKLE - Heaven
Beautiful clip directed by Spike Jonze. Give it until half where it takes off.
via Heiko Reincke
WatchSkywalker got nothin’ on this guy - an impressive stage performance with “lasers”
BrokenPictureTelephone.com - The Game of... →
In BPT, people take alternating turns at doodling a sketch and describing what they see with words, sometimes with quite hilarious results.
“I decided to go into a draconian diet, cutting alcohol, fat, and sugar. In two...”
– Tim Maia
WatchWiiSpray virtual graffiti — an art project by Martin Lihs
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in...”
– George Bernard Shaw
Boohbah zone →
Okay, this clearly made my day so far. Do not combine with psychedelic drugs.
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple...”
– John Gall, via Daring Fireball
Watch74signals: a short entertaining parody by Alexis Ohanian of reddit fame on how to start, run and sell a web2.0 startup.
Parody or not, that guy’s a good speaker.