February 2008
25 posts
Google Gives All SF Homeless Free Voicemail →
“Every single homeless person in the city will be given a life-long phone number and voicemail, should they choose to accept it” [via msnbc.com] Sounds like a good idea.
Wired.com: Top 3 Indie Games to Watch Out For →
Not surprising: Crayon Physics Deluxe won $ 20.000 USD at the Independent Game Festival 2008.
KEEP YOUR EVlL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF OUR FLICKR →
Flickr-Users expressing their enthusiasm about flickr.com (a Yahoo company) possibly being owned by Microsoft.
garfield minus garfield →
“Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle.” - Garfield comics without Garfield.
Conference to Tackle Origins of Evil, Theories of... →
Wired.com on the 24th TED conference for “celebrities, industry titans and alpha geeks” in Monterey, California. Some of the great past talks online: http://www.ted.com
WatchA so called “5x5 vignettes” on Vimeo. Mini-film projects that consist of five clips of 5 seconds. See more: 350975, 401564, 399964, 427587, 254822, 205716, 198321, 198520, 195904
the sixtyone →
“it’s like a massively-multiplayer game for music junkies” - the first thing I noticed is the player that continues playing during surfing the site - and some really good music.
Apple finally replaced their old Xserve RAID... →
An Apple sales manager told me nearly a year ago, that he can’t sell the outdated Xserve RAIDs with quiet conscience any more (the ones have been removed from the Apple store today).
Patent for advanced multitouch gesturing control... →
I especially like the “cut” and “paste” gestures. [via MacRumors]
Sleep modes of mobile Macs
There are three sleep modes for the lates Mac notebooks, pmset -g | grep hibernatemode shows the current state (should be “3” on notebooks, “0” on desktop machines). The modes: Sleep Mode with data in RAM only (mode 0) Safe Sleep Mode with data in RAM and image on disk (default mode 3) Deep Sleep with data in image on disk only (no power consumption) (mode 1) ...
Her Sovereign Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, will... →
John Cleese’s “Letter to America”
www.sleeveface.com →
Weblog about “one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion”. Wonderful internet…
Evolution of Car Logos →
After the evolution of tech logos, a comparison of different car manufacturer’s logos by neatorama.com
Amazon's S3 Storage Chokes, Startups Gag - ... →
Yes, despite all benefits: Be aware of external dependencies and possible single points of failure.
Google iPhone usage shocks search giant →
“Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset — a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.” That means something.
The Economics of Online Backup →
“Doing the math, storing my TB-sized [photo] library on Amazon S3 would cost $150.00/month.”. Interesting considerations on online data backup.
ffffound.com →
“inspirational image-bookmarking experience”: kind of a multi-user monoscope
"Yeah, I'm paying attention... what?" →
Why measuring the effect of advertising is so difficult
How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million... →
Guardian about undersea cables for the internet and the recent internet blackout for India, Egypt and Dubai and others.
Take the windows. Again. →
Microsoft once again recycles it’s three months old demo for Windows Mobile on microsoft.com and still confuses New York and San Francisco a bit.
January 2008
26 posts
Case Study: Company identity and logo design →
”In a reference to architectural theory and the concept of ‘negative space’, A2 stripped the company name back even further until only the counterforms remained” …resulting in a neat corporate identity.
Howto: Opening the Windows Vista box →
Great: “1. On the top of the box, cut along the grooves on either side of the Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity label. 2. Peel the red tabbed label off the front of the box and discard. 3. Holding the box with the Windows logo facing you, grasp the red tab on the top of the box, and pull it to the right to open the box as shown here.” Don’t hurt yourself!