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kung fu grippe — Introducing “ū—”: A Distraction-Free Writing Environment "Whether you review writing apps, blog about writing apps, or simply author angry forum posts about the limited functionality and lack of distraction-free-environment-ness plaguing most writing apps, we think any serious writer will benefit from our gorgeous and minimalistic design choices." (tags: writing productivity funny […]

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Museums for Rescued Letters – Berlin's Buchstabenmuseum is a Typographer's Dream (GALLERY) "The Museum of Letters in Berlin is better known to the locals as Buchstabenmuseum. The gallery houses a huge collection of salvaged letters that were once part of large store and factory name signs." — Berlin is a good city to do this […]

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Outside Line » Blog Archive » Disruption, Disruption, Disruption – Why location services should increase their interference "How nice would it be if, once foursquare gathered enough data on your travels to establish that you’re falling into a routine, it suggested a point of interest based on the path between your two most-travelled check-ins that […]

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The Power Paradox | Greater Good Here Machiavelli failed to appreciate an important fact in the evolution of human hierarchies: that with increasing social intelligence, subordinates can form powerful alliances and constrain the actions of those in power. Power increasingly has come to rest on the actions and judgments of other group members. (tags: machiavelli […]

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Advertising – Pitches for Toning Shoes Defy a Lack of Evidence – NYTimes.com “It fits where the consumers’ heads are today in their time-stressed lives and look, Americans love a silver bullet,” he said. “ ‘All I have to do is walk around and I’ll be more fit?’ Americans love solutions like that.” (tags: consumer […]

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Blue Lines Revisited – gautamramdurai: I look forward to many things in… The idea, judging by this paragraph at any rate, is that we have a moral imperative to develop, say, Autotune so that T-Pain can make records with it. (tags: tonewing technology kevinkelly creativity genius potential )

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Frank Chimero – There is a Horse in the Apple Store THERE IS A LITTLE PONY IN THE APPLE STORE. A beautiful little pony, with a flowing mane, the likes of which my sister would have killed to get for Christmas when she was 7 or 8. And, NOONE is looking at this thing. (tags: […]

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Licence to Generate | Five Players I’ve retained more from PowerPoint 97 than I can remember of my degree. Pushing against tight constraints strengthens the creative muscles. Drop me into a sprawling LittleBigPlanet or Kodu and I don’t know what do to with myself. Don’t pander and pamper; constrict and challenge. (tags: game play programming […]

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Like Cool | Amazon Tote Bag | News | Gear "If you live in the Seattle area, and order from Amazon, now you can select to have orders sent to you in a Amazon Tote bag." — I like how you can keep adding items to it, and when I say like I <br /> […]

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Levi’s Workshops: Craft-based community spaces for the common good-better-best « Felt & Wire Each of the workshops honors a craft associated with its particular city. In decades past, printing was the largest industry in San Francisco, and the Levi’s Workshops in San Francisco fuse this tradition of craftsmanship with new technology. (tags: levis brand branding […]

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