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The Animals House of the Rising Sun Old School Computer Remix

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:39:23 +0100

The Animals House of the Rising Sun Old School Computer Remix

Kosovaren retten Schweizer Nati!

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:00:05 +0200

Kosovaren retten Schweizer Nati!

seldo: This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”,...

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:42:23 +0200

seldo:

This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”, “optimized” UI for Windows Explorer. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it.

The post is a sort of masterpiece of crazy rationalization, but I think my favourite part may be this screenshot:

Here, they proudly overlay the UI with data from their research into how often various commands are used. They use this to show that “the commands that make up 84% of what users do in Explorer are now in one tab”. But the more important thing is that the remaining 50% of the bar is taken up by buttons that nobody will ever use, ever, even according to Microsoft’s own research. And yet somehow they remain smack bang in the middle of the interface. The insanity is further enriched by this graph:

Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the menu bar, and only 10% of users use the command bar. Nearly everybody is using the context menu or hotkeys. So the solution, obviously, is to make both the menu bar and the command bar bigger and more prominent. Right?

Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody.

Wie wünschst du dir die Schweiz?

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:49:36 +0200

Wie wünschst du dir die Schweiz?

Ruhe in Frieden, Loriot

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:55:16 +0200

Ruhe in Frieden, Loriot:

Wer weiss, vielleicht sogar auf einem Modell Unisono Allegro mit doppeltem Federkern und Palmfaserauflage und einem Bezugsmaterial aus gedrillter Halbzwirnware oder gedrilltem Volant.

"This is what David Cameron got wrong: you can’t cut police budgets at the same time as you cut..."

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:41:26 +0200

“This is what David Cameron got wrong: you can’t cut police budgets at the same time as you cut everything else. Because when you rob people of what little they have, in order to protect the interests of those who have more than anyone deserves, you should expect resistance—whether organized protests or spontaneous looting.”

- Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery | Naomi Klein, The Nation

Panamp

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:37:35 +0200

Panamp:

Our friends in the next room made an awesome music player for the iPhone. Go and get it while it’s hot!

Beautiful architecture by L3P - Minergie rated family house,...

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:17:40 +0200

Beautiful architecture by L3P - Minergie rated family house, Zürich 2011 (via subtilitas)

He Man singing «What’s going on» (via wilwheaton)

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:19:22 +0200

He Man singing «What’s going on» (via wilwheaton)

Modkit

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:13:31 +0200

Modkit:

Awesome, this Arduino in the browser visual programming thing works wonderfully! (via @brendandawes)

Fish Eats Fish…

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:53:06 +0200

Fish Eats Fish…

knewdrew: reverse graffiti. instead of using actual spray...

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:07:45 +0200

knewdrew:

reverse graffiti.

instead of using actual spray cans…some artist are just cleaning dirt off of certain areas to make their masterpieces. and they are calling it reverse graffiti. kind of brilliant.

10,000 Digital Paintings · FIELD

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:10:30 +0200

10,000 Digital Paintings · FIELD

Oh my good – errrm – God. Go and enjoy this in its...

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:53:00 +0200

Oh my good – errrm – God. Go and enjoy this in its entirety: Homeschool Science Lessons: Proving atheists wrong with science (via @herrstucki)

Update: they’re pros!

Juliana Santacruz Herrera fixes potholes with knitting.

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:36:40 +0200

Juliana Santacruz Herrera fixes potholes with knitting.

You are not in the news. Generative work by Sergio Albiac

Tue, 24 May 2011 16:00:06 +0200

You are not in the news. Generative work by Sergio Albiac

Jonathan Puckey - Delaunay Raster

Tue, 24 May 2011 09:39:33 +0200

Jonathan Puckey - Delaunay Raster

The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science

Thu, 12 May 2011 21:36:13 +0200

The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science

"Today, we are witnessing the reemergence in electronic form of oral patterns that have been hiding..."

Tue, 10 May 2011 08:34:30 +0200

“Today, we are witnessing the reemergence in electronic form of oral patterns that have been hiding in plain site for generations. So deeply ingrained is our cultural disposition toward literacy, however, that many of us fail to recognize the oral characteristics of electronic media. Today, writers inevitably tend to describe the web in terms of “publishing” or, like H.G. Wells, to compare it to a vast library. And while the web does indeed support new kinds of publishing, it is also a place to “talk.””

- Walter Ong (via A place to talk / from a working library)

50 Dangerous Things you should let your children do. Love it!...

Wed, 04 May 2011 07:25:42 +0200

50 Dangerous Things you should let your children do. Love it! (via @thinfilms)