McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs
yesterday by mtowber
Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs
interviews
articles
yesterday by mtowber
New Scientist - Google Books
20 days ago by mtowber
Back issues of New Scientist for your face
science
reference
articles
archive
20 days ago by mtowber
Lost Garden: Loops and Arcs
4 weeks ago by mtowber
"Here are two tools I've been using lately to better understand the functionality of my game designs. The first is the loop, a structure that should be very familiar to those who have looked into skill atoms. The second is the arc."
gamedev
articles
4 weeks ago by mtowber
Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out -- Daily Intel
7 weeks ago by mtowber
Unfortunately everything about Facebook defies logic. In terms of user experience (insider jargon: "UX"), Facebook is like an NYPD police van crashing into an IKEA, forever — a chaotic mess of products designed to burrow into every facet of your life. The company is also technologically weird. For example, much of the code that runs the site is written in a horrible computer language called PHP, which stands for nothing you care about.
technology
business
articles
facebook
7 weeks ago by mtowber
Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem - NYTimes.com
march 2010 by mtowber
"The French and Italians have nicknamed it the “snail.” The Norwegians have plumped for “pig’s tail,” the Germans “monkey’s tail,” and the Chinese “little mouse.” The Russians think of it as a dog, and the Finns as a slumbering cat."
technology
articles
history
march 2010 by mtowber
Marco.org - Overdoing the interface metaphor
march 2010 by mtowber
It’s important to find the balance between real-world reproduction and usability progress. Physical objects often do things in certain ways for good reasons, and we should try to preserve them. But much of the time, they’re done in those ways because of physical, technical, economic, or practical limitations that don’t need to apply anymore.
interface
ui
usability
design
articles
ux
march 2010 by mtowber
Functioning Form - The Apple Store's Checkout Form Redesign
december 2009 by mtowber
"Apple's online store certainly played a role in this achievement as retail sales data shows that Mac sales were up 21% year-over-year in the months of October and November. So it's interesting to note that Apple's primary online sales channel (Web-based checkout) was redesigned during this time"
forms
usability
ux
interface
webdesign
apple
shopping
articles
december 2009 by mtowber
Hobbyists Use Etsy to Trade Day Job for Hard Work - NYTimes.com
december 2009 by mtowber
"Ms. Gibran, who is in her 30s, had been selling her hand-knit scarves and accessories on the site for less than a year when she decided last November to quit her day job at a copy center in Atlanta. Thirteen months later, she would seem to be living the Etsy dream: running a one-woman knitwear operation, Yokoo, from her home and earning more than $140,000 a year, more than many law associates."
diy
articles
shopping
fashion
december 2009 by mtowber
cyoa viz
november 2009 by mtowber
analyzing the hell out of choose your own adventure books
visualization
books
design
history
articles
inspiration
november 2009 by mtowber
GAME THEORY; Battling Little Monsters in the Schoolyard - The New York Times
september 2009 by mtowber
''Three to six girls can play in a game. Everyone starts out with 10 Self-Esteem points. When other girls humiliate and abuse you, you get really embarrassed and lose your self-esteem. If your Self-Esteem goes down to zero, you become, like, totally mortified and a loser and have to sit out for the rest of the game.''
games
psychology
gamedev
articles
september 2009 by mtowber
Getting Lucky: Hard-Core Gamers Penetrate Peggle's Physics
march 2009 by mtowber
"When you play the game Peggle, do you think everything is left up to luck, or skill?"
games
articles
march 2009 by mtowber
nytexplorer
february 2009 by mtowber
beautifully executed nyt article search
search
articles
api
news
february 2009 by mtowber
comics grammar & tradition
february 2009 by mtowber
" Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file. The majority of these points are established tradition, sprinkled with modern trends and a bit of my own opinion having lettered professionally for a few years now."
comics
art
design
typography
articles
february 2009 by mtowber
arXiv.org e-Print archive
january 2009 by mtowber
"Open access to 517,807 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics"
reference
science
physics
compsci
math
statistics
biology
technology
education
articles
database
january 2009 by mtowber
THE TROUBLEMAKER - How Crucifucks Frontman Doc Dart Became a Man Named 26
january 2009 by mtowber
by the wonderful Sam McPheeters
articles
punk
january 2009 by mtowber
Gallery: Measuring the History of Electricity
august 2008 by mtowber
holy manfire! one of my pics is the front of a wired science blog story!!!
photography
me
science
articles
august 2008 by mtowber
Novelties - Moving Mountains With the Brain, Not a Joystick - NYTimes.com
june 2008 by mtowber
...and that's the back of julian's head.
friends
technology
games
articles
june 2008 by mtowber
Science News / Still Debating With Plato
april 2008 by mtowber
"Where do mathematical objects live?"
math
philosophy
science
articles
april 2008 by mtowber
I Need a Virtual Break. No, Really. - New York Times
march 2008 by mtowber
Bittman @ NYT on information overload
technology
culture
articles
march 2008 by mtowber
THE MINIMALIST; In a Stockpot, Home Brew Beats Store-Bought - New York Times
february 2008 by mtowber
Mark Bittman on vegetable (and other) stocks
cooking
articles
food
february 2008 by mtowber
This blade slices, it dices | Salon Life
february 2008 by mtowber
"...these knives cut through the cells of ingredients so cleanly and precisely that food oxidizes more slowly, and tastes better as a result."
cooking
articles
february 2008 by mtowber
As We May Think
january 2008 by mtowber
Vannevar Bush from the newly public Atlantic archive
history
technology
articles
january 2008 by mtowber
Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?
january 2008 by mtowber
engaging article by David Kushner
ai
technology
articles
january 2008 by mtowber
Annals Of Commerce : Made In the Shade
april 2007 by mtowber
by Eric Konigsberg in the New Yorker
color
articles
april 2007 by mtowber
Notes of a Gastronome: The Taming of the Chef
march 2007 by mtowber
New Yorker article on Gordon Ramsay by good ol' Bill Buford
food
articles
cooking
march 2007 by mtowber
Nick Tosches: Autumn and the Plot Against Me
february 2007 by mtowber
The mysterious origins of a Windows desktop image.
photography
windows
technology
articles
february 2007 by mtowber
Rip Van Winkle Awakens to a Flat-Screen Life - New York Times
january 2007 by mtowber
“There was research on whether computers cause miscarriage. Then the next wave of research is, ‘Will it hurt children?’ Then, ‘Will it hurt society?’ That’s the pattern of looking into a new technology."
culture
media
technology
articles
television
january 2007 by mtowber
"The Paper Chase" @ The New Yorker
december 2006 by mtowber
by Tad Friend - great review of The Office
culture
television
media
articles
december 2006 by mtowber
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