Coffee and milk
For those enjoying their day-after coffees, here’s a drop of milk to go with your brewed goodie.
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For those enjoying their day-after coffees, here’s a drop of milk to go with your brewed goodie.
“The mouse, menus, overlapping windows, the CD drive, Wi-Fi wireless, and so on—all of these things were developed elsewhere. But Apple brought them to the masses.” Read The Redmond Copying Machine? in Pogue’s New York Times Blog. [via @rgumente]
For casual visitors or for typography-savvy designers admiring the grand master, SpiekerBlog 2.0 is now online. [via D.O.]
The New York Times Magazine looks back on the passing year from a distinctive vantage point: that of ideas. 74 of them, from good to bad, from serious to silly in The 6th Annual Year in Ideas. [via Kottke]
Professional blogger Jason Kottke compiles his annual year-in-review list of best links, featuring no less than 100 slots this year. Head to kottke.org for The Best links 2006.
Cupertino cranks up the long-range reality distortion field, and the stuff may grow dizzying strong at the time when the Man himself will take the stage later today. The first effects are already showing: John Gruber of Daring Fireball flip-flopped over the weekend and now predicts that an iPod mobile phone is “it’s more likely than not.”
At MacWorld Apple unveils the iPhone. I am speechless. This is history.
Until I digest the tsunami of iPhone stories and I write my own impressions, here’s an interesting Zune review. [thanks, Janos]
The Romanian weblog awards RoBlogFest is at its second edition. Dragos — the father of this particularly difficult kid — asks for your help, so please go check the tentative schedule plus the competition categories and leave your suggestions in the comments.
My RoBlogFest 2006 wrap-up conclusions in case anyone wants to revisit. Best Fotoblog category already added, what about a Best Humor category?
Rick Poynor’s Top 15 Design and Visual Culture Books at Print Magazine. Few usual suspects, more of the heavy stuff.
John Maeda: “So was Paul Rand a grumpy, cantankerous, braggart? Sure. He was also a brilliant, caring, and humble man at the same time. If people were simple they wouldn’t be that interesting; they are best when they are complex.” Paul Rand Commercial at Maeda’s Simplicity.
Staring at the talented young men of the seventies and their beautiful matching costumes I wonder if in thirty years from now something from our culture could be seen as wildly ridiculous as this lads.
Under Consideration’s Quipsologies open up to public. From the first batch of quips: Forget the film, watch the titles — a collection of hand-picked opening titles.
“Nearly all of the major, visible new features in Vista are already available in Apple’s operating system, called Mac OS X, which came out in 2001” says Mossberg in his review of Microsoft Windows Vista.
For £15,000 as agency Mother have bought the right to run both the content and design of the February issue of Creative Review, working alongside the in-house team. [via magCulture]
“Design is the new advertising. The agencies should fold, they’re out of line and out of touch. The only advertising that works is about product that you’re drawn to any way.” Marc Gobé interview. [via BusinessWeek’s Nussbaum On Design]
Fimoculous lists the 30 Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading. Many good leads in the comments, too.
“I’ve always had my own methods of dealing with [inspiration] and one of them is pressure. I only start work when I really cannot avoid it anymore. And it’s not inspiration, it’s sweat — perspiration…” Erik Spiekermann. [via Authentic Boredom]
Night at the Museum proves that big-budget state-of-the-art CGI effects can be totally worthless with Ben Stiller on the same screen. Is Robin Williams becoming totally unwatchable? Avoid if 12 or older.
Hystorical median temperature in January for Bucharest is 1°C during the day. This January we currently have temperatures over 10°C, occasionally reaching 16°C. However, in the USA people complained about Al Gore’s global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, claiming it does not present an opposing view of global warming, such as creationism and the Bible.
After a hiatus since closing her old blog, Miri Bratu is back with a new one: Simț enorm și văz monstruos. Update your bookmarks. [in Romanian]
Feeder, the inexorable underground news source turns two. Happy b-day! [in Romanian]
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