Lisa Brewster | Tumblelog

Dream vacation x1000

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:36:39 -0800

Dream vacation x1000

Is webOS a cult?

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:53:25 -0800

When the notion of Apple fans as cult members began–it dates at least to the mid-1980s–the company’s customers were indeed a small, obsessive group, at least in comparison to the teeming masses that used PCs running Microsoft software. […] Back then, the fact that there were relatively few Apple enthusiasts, clinging to the products of a company with a questionable future, was supposedly evidence that they amounted to a cult.

This is your mind being just a little bit blown.

"The webOS dev community is so reminiscent of the early Mac dev community. A small band who knows..."

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:08:41 -0800

“The webOS dev community is so reminiscent of the early Mac dev community. A small band who knows they’re spelunking a new and better universe, and freely shares discoveries of the pathways thru the twisty little corridors …”

- From the Enyo forums…

"Palm’s problem was that the mobile Web was not ready for devices. We are just now starting to..."

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:05:00 -0800

“

Palm’s problem was that the mobile Web was not ready for devices. We are just now starting to see the problems facing mobile Web apps being addressed through the HTML5 spec such as CSS and rendering along with caching and device access to elements like the camera and accelerometer. The native platforms have had that advantage since the beginning.

This is where webOS has a chance. It straddles the line between Web and native in a very fundamental way.

”

- Rise of Mobile Web Apps Will Give webOS A Time to Shine

Justin Timberlake, you have a call on the Awesomephone, line 1

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:38:27 -0800

Justin Timberlake, you have a call on the Awesomephone, line 1

GEE-PEE-OH-WHY (via Dean’s List)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:29:31 -0800

GEE-PEE-OH-WHY (via Dean’s List)

Photo

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:01:51 -0800

Think like a statistician – without the math

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:38:34 -0800

Think like a statistician – without the math:

This. I mean, really.

"Some people are furious that our hearts are pierced this way by the things we make. They see this..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:22:04 -0800

“Some people are furious that our hearts are pierced this way by the things we make. They see this ever-neediness as a debasement, a lowering of human nobility, the source of our continuous discontentment. I agree that it is the source. New technology forces us to be always chasing the new, which is always disappearing under the next new, a salvation always receding from our grasp. But I celebrate the never-ending discontentment that the technium brings. Most of what we like about being human is invented. We are different from our animal ancestors in that we are not content to merely survive, but have been incredibly busy making up new itches which we have to scratch, digging extra holes that we have to fill, creating new desires we’ve never had before.”

- The Technium: Making Holes in Our Heart

MY TITS ARE ALLIGATORS YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID (via What a Croc...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:59:42 -0800

MY TITS ARE ALLIGATORS YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID (via What a Croc | Regretsy)

"If you want to understand every possible workflow your users are trying on your application, the..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:56:28 -0800

“If you want to understand every possible workflow your users are trying on your application, the elapsed time to complete these workflows, and the enumerated set of quantified emotional damage these workflows are inflicting on your users, find an HCI guy, give him 18 months, and you’ll be dazzled. ”

- Rands In Repose: A Design Primer for Engineers

Get on my floor! (via Floor tiles made out of recycled leather...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:59:45 -0800

Get on my floor! (via Floor tiles made out of recycled leather belts - Boing Boing)

INNIT! (via The Very Best Archer Gifs)

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:17:41 -0800

INNIT! (via The Very Best Archer Gifs)

"Whenever asked, “How long did it take you to make this?” I always respond, “My whole life up to that..."

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:03:21 -0800

“Whenever asked, “How long did it take you to make this?” I always respond, “My whole life up to that moment.””

- Drawings for 3 Rooms in Your Home by Steve Lambert

THIS WOULD WORK // (via I Can Has Cheezburger?)

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:50:09 -0800

THIS WOULD WORK // (via I Can Has Cheezburger?)

"No firm will ever reach that extreme [of staffing only customers], but the trajectory that leads in..."

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:23:42 -0800

“No firm will ever reach that extreme [of staffing only customers], but the trajectory that leads in that direction is the right one, and any step taken to shift the balance toward relying on the relationships with customers will prove to be an advantage.”

- Kevin Kelly: Imagine your customers as employees

"The study of economics has no Darwin yet, but it is increasingly clear that the behavior of everyday..."

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:19:04 -0800

“The study of economics has no Darwin yet, but it is increasingly clear that the behavior of everyday markets cannot be truly understood without keeping in mind the slow, but commanding dynamics of long-term economic growth.”

- Kevin Kelly: Opportunities before efficiencies

"The operating systems that succeed are the ones that survive long enough for their big flaws to be..."

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:29:22 -0800

“The operating systems that succeed are the ones that survive long enough for their big flaws to be fixed.”

- Why WebOS Really Failed, and What it Means for the Rest of Us

"it is our own sense of how we appear to the world by which we chart our lives, how we navigate our..."

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:43:07 -0800

“it is our own sense of how we appear to the world by which we chart our lives, how we navigate our personalities, which would otherwise be adrift in the ocean of other people’s obsessions.”

- Lost Angeles, CA

"Pronovost remains, in a way, an odd bird in medical research. […] He’s focussed on work that..."

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:53:37 -0800

“Pronovost remains, in a way, an odd bird in medical research. […] He’s focussed on work that is not normally considered a significant contribution in academic medicine. […] Yet his work [implementing checklists] has already saved more lives than that of any laboratory scientist in the past decade.”

- Peter Pronovost’s checklists better intensive care : The New Yorker // not only checklists for execution…don’t miss the part where the lists were used to establish procedural consensus and give management insight into supply gaps