2 month ago
jonhicks : New York Times iPhone app iconography - Great writeup on the process, and wonderful result too.
Khoi Vinh : Drawger.com: Felix Sockwell on the New York Times App for iPhone - Felix details the work he did for us designing a bucketload of icons for our iPhone application.
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philgyford : Breaking Through - New York Times - Just because I find it interesting what movies make a performer's reputation, and in some cases makes it harder for them to different roles later. (via Kottke)
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7 month ago
Rod Begbie : A President Like My Father - New York Times - Caroline Kennedy endorses Obama. "I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new gene #
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8 month ago
deusx : A Users Manual to Seat 21C - Jet Lagged - Air Travel - Opinion - New York Times Blog - "CONGRATULATIONS ON SELECTING SEAT 21C! This manual is intended to familiarize you with the many options available to you."
Rod Begbie : A Users Manual to Seat 21C - Too true to be funny. (I was particularly pissy that on my flight earlier, the tray table was covered with a huge advertising sticker. I promptly peeled it off. Fucked if I'm going to let someone steal my attention when I'm trapped in a confined space) [via] #
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10 month ago
Rod Begbie : Reading Tea Leaves and Campaign Logos - The New York Times > Opinion - Analyzing the design details of the 2008 political campaign logos. #
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11 month ago
philgyford : Colleges and Universities - Education and Schools - Engineering - Technology - Science - New York Times - Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering sounds different in a good way. "Learning the skill of how to learn is more important than trying to fill every possible cup of knowledge in every possible discipline." (via Blech)
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19 month ago
philgyford : The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen - Review - Fringe Festival - New York Times - A play from 2005. Great idea.
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20 month ago
plasticbag : Andrew Leonard of Salon responds to the David Carr post I wrote about earlier and in not enormously flattering terms... - And he's also got a point! saturation in the marketplace doesn't mean that everyone writes about Britney, it means that people specialise and there's more choice. The capitalist would argue that market failure is the biggest threat, not competition...
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20 month ago
plasticbag : David Carr talks in the New York Times about the benefits and costs of new web-native ways of reading and writing to the business of writing newspapers... - Now this is a really good article. It balances the value of 'most read' pages and blogs with the risks towards popularisation and ratings-grabbing while accepting that one way or another they're here to stay. No head in the sand.
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43folders : Some Hands-On Time With the iPhone (David Pogue at NYT) - David had an hour to play with the new iPhone. "It feels amazing in your hand. Not like an iPod, not like a Treo — but something new."
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philgyford : Roger Federer as Religious Experience - Tennis - New York Times - I have no interest in sport but David Foster Wallace always makes tennis fascinating. Not that I've got round to reading this yet. (via Kottke)
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Del.icio.us, 43 Things, and Pledgebank in the New York Times - I'm glad the press is starting to interview the users of 43 Things...
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38 month ago
jkottke : Tom Standage says bottled water is "bad to the last drop" - It's more expensive than gasoline, doesn't taste any better, and isn't any safer.
philgyford : Bad to the Last Drop - New York Times - Tom Standage on why you're an idiot if you buy bottled water when you could drink tap water.
Matthew M. Boedicker : bottled water a scam?
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40 month ago
plasticbag : Bubblegeneration talks about how Media 2.0 needs to get past the idea of building 'strong barriers around their goods' - It references my recent comment on the New York Times, but actually I think it's more interesting than it seems - does this apply to all media? TV? Radio? DVDs? Movies? Software? Games?
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