The Wilderness Downtown – what a beautiful experience!
Things Organized Neatly
Things that have been laid out carefully, precisely, evenly; things on shelves, in vices; studio photography, diagrams and right angles.
Whyday: 19 August 2010
Tomorrow is Whyday – let’s celebrate! Ahh, the good memories …
My Cooking Diary – awesome food, beautiful website. (via herrstucki)
It’s pretty easy to argue that software patents are bad for the software industry.
Regardless of where you stand on that issue, however, it must at least give you pause when Apple, who not only exercises final approval over what may be sold on the world’s largest mobile software distribution platform, but also has exclusive pre-publication access (by way of that approval process) to every app sold or attempted to be sold there, quietly starts patenting app ideas.
But even if you’re fine with that, how about this: one of the diagrams in Apple’s patent application for a travel app is a direct copy, down to the text and the positions of the icons, of an existing third-party app that’s been available on the App Store for years.
I can’t see how this is even close to OK.
(Update: I’ve posted a followup.)
(Second update: FutureTap responds.)
Just Add Points?
What UX designers can (and cannot) learn from games. (via @lautundgrell)
I saw Moon (2009) yesterday and it was great! A beautiful set, great solo-play, and it makes you ask yourself: what would I do?
Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub
Great questions you should ask yourself, too.
(via Instapaper)
