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paulscheer:

This is one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. Check out this ridiculous violent and amazingly insane intro video for an Alaskan College Hockey Team.

(this post was reblogged from paulscheer)
(this post was reblogged from frankhejl)
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The bulk of humanity doesn’t want a computing experience it can tinker with; it wants a computing experience that works.
Jeffrey Zeldman, on the iPad
The USPS will be issuing a Calvin & Hobbes postage stamp this July!

The USPS will be issuing a Calvin & Hobbes postage stamp this July!

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If you want to be influential, lead by doing, not by talking, and certainly not by duping. If what you create is really good, other people will talk about it for you.
Mike Davidson, referring to our bold new world of endless self-promotion, a.k.a. the social web

John C. Abell, referring to the debate over Flash on the iPhone/iPad, notes:

[Flash is] the most over-rated and overused crutch for decent design.

And in one phrase, he has entirely summed up my feelings regarding Flash, both as a technology and as a tool for design.

While good design can be (and occasionally is) done using Flash, all too often something is made all whiz-bang-whirry, fly around the screen and do crazy shit-like just because it can. And this doesn’t make the interface more usable, and most definitely doesn’t make it better designed.

Flash just helps to ensure the design will be noticed1. And good design shouldn’t be noticed, nor should it get in the way of the user. As Jared Spool remarks:

Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it.

And boy do I notice a lot of Flash out there.

  1. I’m sure this point has been made before, but isn’t the name Flash itself so apropos? Technically it’s a contraction of FutureSplash, the company that originally created the technology. But anymore, all I see is the derisive meaning of the word… ↩
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Part of [Apple’s] vision for moving computers from technical culture to popular culture is about getting away from defining these things by their technical specs.
John Gruber
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I mentioned this year-ago quote from Apple COO Tim Cook the other day, but it’s apt here, too. Cook told BusinessWeek, “We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.”

Apple now owns and controls their own mobile CPUs. There aren’t many companies in the world that can say that. And from what I saw today, Apple doesn’t just own and control a mobile CPU, they own and control the hands-down best mobile CPU in the world. Software aside (which is a huge thing to put aside), it may well be that no other company could make a device today matching the price, size, and performance of the iPad. They’re not getting into the CPU business for kicks, they’re getting into it to kick ass.
John Gruber talking about how the fact that Apple is now designing their own CPU makes all the difference in their mobile strategy
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Tompkins Square Park