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ejpfauth: thekhooll: Isolator - 1925 Invented by science...

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:11:08 -0500

thekhooll:

Isolator - 1925

Invented by science fiction pioneer Hugi Gernsbeck, the “Isolator” was designed to help focus the mind when reading or writing, by rendering the wearer deaf, piping them full of oxygen, not only by eliminating all outside noise, but also by allowing just one line of text to be seen at a time through a horizontal slit.

IA Writer is for amateurs. Try the.., Isolater!

Marked turns 1.4

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:03:42 -0400

Marked turns 1.4:

Markdown is about liberation. Liberation from bloated desktop publishing software that’s carried far too much baggage forward from the 1990s, a time when the world got drunk on WYSIWYG.

A Plain Text Primer

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:06:05 -0400

A Plain Text Primer:

minimalmac:

In order to attempt to prove that I’m not insane (likely a futile endeavor), I wanted to try and clarify why I believe plain text files to be a better way to create words for the web.

Great overview of the reasons and methods for using plain text wherever possible (as I have for years now).

Get things real

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:25:15 -0400

Get things real:

When you look for inspiration, when you want really getting things real, it can be useful to remember that… ” constrains and dead lines make you creative, different opportunity and having anything you want they kill creativity.” by Jack White

see the full interview Watched by Jason Z. about inspiration and constrains

Derek Powazek - What If Social Networks Just Aren’t Profitable?

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:59:34 -0400

Derek Powazek - What If Social Networks Just Aren’t Profitable?:

What if we designed a social network to be small, self-supporting, and independent from the outset? How would it look, work, and feel? I bet it would come out looking nothing like the ones we’ve got now, the ones still trying to turn water into gold.

Re-Design the classic email client

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:41:51 -0400

Re-Design the classic email client:

The first email was sent in the early 1970’s there was no big difference to the email we know today. And that’s the problem.

Some interesting idea about today uses of email.

How to fill that gap

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:25:42 -0400

How to fill that gap

Nel merito - Centro per la Riforma dello Stato

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:47:35 -0400

Nel merito - Centro per la Riforma dello Stato:

Un commento di Mauro Ceruti alla bozza di decreto sul merito del ministro Profumo

Interface inspiration at the office - (37signals)

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 06:53:00 -0400

Interface inspiration at the office - (37signals)

Markdown: The Ins and Outs

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:36:07 -0400

Markdown: The Ins and Outs:

Markdown is a shockingly simple markup language that allows you to write, using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write, plain text format. This format can then, in seconds, be converted into another markup language, such as HTML!

Instapaper Zero

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 07:54:30 -0400

Instapaper Zero:

A workflow to manage the to read list on the web using Instapaper and Yojimbo

Web-based task manager for lovers of simple - Daystack

Wed, 30 May 2012 17:23:00 -0400

Web-based task manager for lovers of simple - Daystack:

A beautifully minimal approach to getting organized.

Work focused on the content | minimalmachine

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:47:44 -0400

Work focused on the content | minimalmachine:

Without content there aren’t tools, design or interfaces that can transform a project in a success project. The focus became to find the right way to create content.

John Cleese on the 5 Factors to Make Your Life More Creative

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:41:17 -0400

Really helpful lesson about creativity and art of living.

movetofit:

Space (“You can’t become playful, and therefore creative, if you’re under your usual pressures.”)

Time (“It’s not enough to create space; you have to create your space for a specific period of time.”)

Time (“Giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original,” and learning to tolerate the discomfort of pondering time and indecision.)

Confidence (“Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.”)

Humor (“The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.”)

There’s a great youtube in the original article. John Cleese starts to sound a lot like Tim Ferriss. Probably the closest thing he has to a TED talk. On second thought, here it is (there’s a longer version in the original article though):

teamviticci: Gianluca Tararbra aka Gitano

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:15:53 -0400

teamviticci:

Gianluca Tararbra aka Gitano

(via Silkscreen Poster “Good Things Come to Those...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:34:49 -0400

(via Silkscreen Poster “Good Things Come to Those Who…” by Kyle Winton — Kickstarter)

Why I think Instagram Facebook doesn’t work | minimalmachine

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:45:06 -0400

Why I think Instagram Facebook doesn’t work | minimalmachine:

Instagram could lose its capacity to attract new people and probably could lose part of its users.

Minimal: Clothes

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:25:39 -0500

Minimal: Clothes:

mnmal:

In Clothing that makes me simplify (and be lighter) I wrote:

I’m always trying to be lighter and more efficient. In doing this I noticed a trend on the clothing I own: through the years they gradually became lighter, simpler and can adapt to any occasion. I own less clothing.

Clothing to…

"The enemy is not the innovators. The enemy is the idea of not doing anything, and thinking that..."

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:04:48 -0400

“The enemy is not the innovators. The enemy is the idea of not doing anything, and thinking that change is not going to happen.”

- - Nate Weiner, cited by Lois Beckett in Instapaper, Read It Later, Byliner: Platform founders on the pageview economics of time-shifted reading. Weiner is also the guy who calls time-shifted reading ‘Tivo for the web’.

How to balance the desire of readers to filter ads with the desire of publishers to have embedded ads in works?

Weiner, the founder of Read It Later, tries to make the point that the innovators — like Weiner, Marco Arment of Instapaper, and John Tayman of Byliner — are just doing what readers want. The trick will be figuring out a way to make the publishers happy.

In a fluid world, the notion of web pages (except as an archival mechanism) is changing rapidly. A URL is a unique ID referencing an object, most importantly, a handle that can be used to dereference: to access the object being referenced, and pulling its contents into some context.

The issue is, then: Are the ads associated with works part of the work or an additional bit of stuff?

From the viewpoint of the reader, the ads are extraneous, and not inviolably part of the work, because filtering them in no way degrades the experience of the article, photo, video, or audio.

I believe that a new sense of ‘fair use’ will have to evolve, and it will be somewhere to the left of what publishers like. For example, something like the reverse of the model for online newspapers, where I can access the NY Times without fee for up to 20 times per month. Perhaps a model would evolve where I can skip NY Times ads in Read It Later for 20 times per month, after which I have to see at least one of their ads in subsequent viewings?

(via stoweboyd)

Minimal: To me minimalism is not...

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:13:34 -0400

Minimal: To me minimalism is not...:

mnmal:

To me minimalism is not getting rid of all your possessions just to say “look I am a minimalist, I live with 1 tshirt and 1 meal a week”.

To me minimalism is not having cheap things so that I can say “look I don’t spend money because I am a minimalist and I live with nothing”

To me minimalism…