A Better Course

It’s a beautiful answer to the variety of wiping cloths we use day-to-day… No more difficult to manufacture than a regular towel, modifiable with just a pair of scissors, and addresses a mundane, universal situation.

(tags: design tecznotes everyday sustainability)

In an interview, he said that his aim was “to build a completely freely licensed, open-source search engine” that would be far more transparent than Google and other existing services, which keep their algorithms for ranking search results a secret.

(tags: wikipedia jimmywales google opensource ft)

After assuring himself that I had never actually touched or seen the PlayStation, he had a replacement on the way before the day was out. It arrived on Christmas Eve. Amazon didn’t even charge me for the shipping.

(tags: amazon nytimes customerservice)

They are counter intuitive, but not unintelligible. In the first moment of exposure, we don’t quite get them…and this prevents them from washing over us and out into that sea of forgettable branding and marketing.

(tags: o’reilly firefox branding brand psychology marketing)

“The beauty of the official Logitech version is that it’s in the software from the start, so there’s no need to download and install a plug-in – so that opens up Squeezebox scrobbling to a much wider audience.” Exciting!

(tags: last.fm squeezebox product marketing)

In the world of classical music, beta blockers l have become nearly as commonplace as metronomes. The drugs block adrenaline receptors in the brain, heart and blood vessels, helping to control arrhythmias and high blood pressure.

(tags: neuromarketing brain pharmaceutical marketing)