“I had the gift of forty pages of a book. He had the gift of an anytime unlimited nothing. This isn't progress.”

“Toward the end of his life, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright often said that with 20 more years he could rebuild America, and give it an architecture that was organic, natural, and truly its own. Others called him arrogant for making these claims, but he would respond that a great nation should expect its great architects to build it great buildings. ... The... human race—the struggling journalists, the embattled authors of books, the makers of music, the normal folks who have been robbed of their individuality by today’s web—should expect its... world builders to build them beautiful, honest, nourishing worlds.”

“Maybe there are some Costa customers who take comfort in the fact that their coffee at 10.21 06:09:2009 is a matter of record, not because it is an alibi for a crime or because it is tax deductible, but because it is something to cling to.”

progress!

“What bothers me is not that so many users are going to purchase Shadow Complex. What bothers me most is not, as you might assume, that some gamers who understand the issue will decide to buy the game to show support for Card, either as an artist whose work they enjoy or even as a political figure whose views they respect. ... No, what bothers me is people who suggest that it's a non-issue because the topic of discussion is a game.”

“This time-compressing aspect of mp3-based music culture does not flow naturally from the technology itself—it's a result of a lot of people, at the same time, publicly failing to resist their most basic passions for acquisition.”

totally reminds me of Animal Crossing

this is a great film

omg yes

“The crazy thing is that I’d bet that right now, today, we have the right technology smarts and certainly the right design smarts to solve [the media center] problem. But the missing leg of the stool, a rational, user-focused business model, is still sorely missing.”

I was annoyed with the ending, now that I finally experienced it, unlike with all the time I sank into it back in the day. (This article has spoilers, if you might play it now that it's on Steam.)

“‘Is that enough proof for you [expletives]? I was right. You were WRONG.’”

“When you perform ‘bigger’ actions, Fever uses a modal dialog box to ask for confirmation, something I've always called The Ghetto Shield *because it's so lame.* ... This is another desktop UI convention that has no place on the web. Even Apple left this in the dustbin of history when it replaced system-blocking dialogs with per-window sheets with the introduction of OSX.”

“What they failed to grasp, however, is that in the hands of interested parties, a message that was intended to reassure was presented as an admission of problems.”

i've been using this and it's totally nice

“In a book populated by the smiling residents of the year 3001 who are slowly beginning to get on the man's nerves (amongst all his adventures), a single line, inserted really just about anywhere in the text, would have saved the book.”

“‘The games industry is very well organized and very successful within its own ecosystem. But it has optimized all of its systems and habits for internal use. As a result, only gamers like games. And everybody else doesn't understand them or is even disgusted by them. Which is problematic for us. Essentially, we make games for non-gamers—and, in general, non-gamers hate games.’”

“The case against HFCS comprises the three cardinal claims of food politics: Like other villainous ingredients—trans fat and artificial food dye come to mind—high-fructose corn syrup is accused of being at once unhealthy, unnatural, and unappetizing. (These might be described as the Hippocratic, Platonic, and Epicurean tines of the foodie movement.) While none of these claims is completely wrong when it comes to corn sweetener, none is quite right, either.”

“Mambonsai is a new pop culture pastime that involves decorating bonsais with small plastic figurines.”

best frame for that freaky Orangina ad ever

exploded wiimote. awesome.