Mandy Brown In order to create this rhythm, the book must be designed and composed for the screen. A beautiful digital text can no more be arrived at by “converting” from a print design than a beautiful print book can be created by converting a Word file. The digital book will never come into its own so long as it is treated as a byproduct, unworthy of attention. 2010-03-02T15:26:54Z http://aworkinglibrary.com/library/archives/the_form_of_the_book/ ry ry Ryan Tomayko Also, most things are interesting to someone. There’s a few areas right now that no one has a particularly strong interest in. When things become neglected, they’re very quickly obvious. They don’t have a chance to fester. They just pop and are ugly and everybody has to look at it all the time and it’s annoying. At GitHub, those things are taken as a sign that we should consider hiring somebody who is interested in that thing. The more everyone is forced to take time away from what they would rather be doing to deal with the thing, the more pressure is created to find the person that’s going to love that thing and fix it for good. 2010-02-23T00:39:49Z http://rc3.org/2010/02/20/extreme-agility/#comments ry ry David Cole I think it’s a sig­nif­i­cant rea­son why peo­ple get less out of read­ing for the web: there’s always more… the beau­ti­ful thing about [magazine] issues is that they begin and end. 2010-02-17T02:51:12Z http://www.sleepoversf.com/metagames-and-containers/ lrizoli ry lrizoli Maciej Ceglowski Our technical goals are to never lose data, be very fast, and favor boring and faded technologies where possible. A rule of thumb that has worked well for me is that if I'm excited to play around with something, it probably doesn't belong in production. 2010-01-12T19:06:33Z http://pinboard.in/blog/63/ ry ry John Maeda Amidst the attention given to the sciences as how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered ‘useless,’ will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. 2009-12-07T16:25:46Z http://spacecollective.org/rene/4708/The-universe-will-fly-like-a-bird ry LKRaider ry Umberto Eco The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order -- not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries. 2009-11-22T23:14:27Z http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,659577,00.html ry ry Luc Tuymans It’s like I don’t know what I’m doing but I know how to do it, and it’s very strange. 2009-10-30T19:06:30Z http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2009/10/12/091012craw_artworld_schjeldahl ry ry These visual essays, together with animated stings and very short films, have become the primary modes of communication; objects are strung together rather than taken in isolation. There is no space for contemplation, just clicking, scrolling and flicking. This leaves the solitary object somewhat adrift, only embodying meaning when it is juxtaposed or collated or slotted into a larger collection. Although a glance at any tumblr or curated weblog might suggest otherwise, the 'thing' is in danger of imminent extinction. 2009-10-20T11:00:31Z http://www.thingsmagazine.net/2009/10/death-of-object.htm ry ry Fumito Ueda There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary. 2009-09-24T13:45:14Z http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssENxDZupQE lrizoli ry lrizoli LBJeffries Kurzweil['s] definition of innovation: if people like it or understand it, you didn't do anything new. 2009-09-16T11:51:43Z http://twitter.com/LBJeffries/status/4028930060 lrizoli ry lrizoli Jack Shedd On the other, if I had to endure one more 10-speed silhouette printed on an America Apparel shirt, or a cute plush pseudo-monster, I was going to burn the damn thing down and demand half the fair go home and think about what they’d done. 2009-09-14T10:42:03Z http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2009/09/14/im-a-consumer/ ry ry Chuck Klosterman It’s akin to a combination of Badfinger, Oasis, Corner Shop, and everyother rock band that’s ever existed. 2009-09-10T13:25:22Z http://www.avclub.com/articles/chuck-klosterman-repeats-the-beatles,32560/ ry ry