I wonder if we’ll ever get used to the lack of a roar? Sounds a bit like a remote controlled car.
Category Archives: Technology
Maybe the Most Orwellian Text Message a Government’s Ever Sent | Motherboard
“Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”
Maybe the Most Orwellian Text Message a Government’s Ever Sent
This is like a film script. How long before this becomes standard?
Anxiety…
“By removing slack, airlines create failure. In order to increase profit, airlines work hard to get the maximum number of flights out of each plane, each day. As a result, there are no spares, no downtime and no resilience. By assuming that their customer base prefers to save money, not anxiety, they create an anxiety-filled system.”
Seths Blog: Eleven things organizations can learn from airports.
The worst part of this list is that it describes modern life; not just the worst parts of it!
The Spectrum…
More hours than I dare count were spend circling a white lake at night…
It’s not a problem, it’s a challenge…
Physics Nobel Prize 2012…
Watch at 1:50 into the video. He’s looking for Google to see who won, the cameraman says the names and he knows. In his world it is instantly obvious why these people won the prize.
Lovely moment.
Google Trends – Phones…
Aircraft Carriers in Space…
There is more original thought in this one article than in most news papers…
“But in space, you don’t need that doorway between the sea and the sky, because your “fighter” is operating in the same medium as the mothership. You don’t need a flight deck. You just need a hatch, or maybe just a clamp that attaches the fighter to the hull if you don’t mind leaving it outside. You don’t need the big engines or the big elevated flight deck. And hence it doesn’t make nearly so much sense to put all of your eggs in one basket.”
Aircraft Carriers in Space – By Michael Peck | Foreign Policy.
Gruber vs. Pogue on Charlie Rose Tonight…
Watch any decent film from the post war period and you’ll see actors act. Something that is lost in modern CGI filming.
In those days film cost money and therefore with a limited number of takes actors would up stage on and other. They’d move to the centre of the shot, produce a prop or gesture in a special way.
As film got cheaper, this art got lost on film, although it remains in theatre when actors are often moving upstage.
What made me think of this was watching Gruber vs. Pogue.
Daring Fireball Linked List: Yours Truly on Charlie Rose Tonight.
Gruber is new to this, he’s made is name in print (if the web counts as print). Pogue isn’t. Watch Pogue use the props that he has, a phone and a cable. He’s all action, Gruber just gets the words right!
5 principles of invisible web design…
“Design for the primary use case.
Do one thing and do it well.”
David Galbraith’s Blog » Blog Archive » 5 principles of invisible web design.
Why is this limited to Web Design. These are just good design principles for small companies.