Updates on the first day of July 2008
Here are several interesting links:
- Google Employees Press 14 Buttons to Operate Their Toilets.
- FailWhale.com is the groupie | PR | Fan Club for one of coolest whales we know… you know… the cute whale and his birdie entourage who show up occasionally on Twitter to let you know that it’s time to push back from your keyboard and to go take a break. Ya! that one.
Well, I think I need to let you know that I’ve been so busy this week. Sorry for no updates on this blog. Furthermore, I want to let you know, please do not expect for any updates until next 10 days :-)
Lots of things need to take care. Lots of surprises will be coming.
Have a nice day. #
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Things to Remember on Reading RSS Feeds
RSS is becoming our main tools to aggregate interesting bits on our digital life. People tend to use RSS just like using email nowadays. But, every time we get through dozens (and may be hundreds and thousands) unread item buried under our RSS reader, this will make our life being unproductive.
In order to solve my own problem with the RSS reading habit, I found these things I remember when using RSS feeds. I hope these tips worth to reading to everyone. I will update this post as necessary when I got new useful idea to put on it.
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Slideshare World's Best Presentation Contest
Slideshare is running the “World’s Best Presentation Contest” again. Entries are due by July 31st. The judges are Guy Kawasaki, Bert Decker, Nancy Duarte, and Garr Reynolds. The prizes include a MacBook Air, Amazon Kindle, iPod Nano, iPod Touch, and copies of Presentation Zen. To learn more, go here.
via Guy Kawasaki. #
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Links for 2008-06-26
- The New Yorker: 100 Essential Jazz Albums, by David Remnick. These hundred titles are meant to provide a broad sampling of jazz classics and wonders across the music’s century-long history. Early New Orleans jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, modal jazz, hard bop, free jazz, third stream, and fusion are all represented, though not equally.
- The 10 Commandments of Web Design, a BusinessWeek guide for web designer. Compiled with the help from so many great design people.
- 34 Places to Get Design Inspiration – Online and Off
- The Website Is Down. Very funny.
- Books That Changed My Life
- Comic Sans Film, a documentary film coming soon. Via Simon Willison
- DocSource: Sundance Documentary Film Program, DocSource brings you resources, services and news for the human rights and independent documentary fields.
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English Revelation
I pulled these two books yesterday from my bookshelf. What I am going to do?
PS: For those of you who read via aggregator, I am sorry if this is double posted. This piece should not be published before, but I made mistake by setting earlier date while clicking Save. Really sorry.
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Links for 2008-06-25
- Send your name to the moon. Names will be collected and placed onboard the LRO spacecraft for its historic mission bringing NASA back to the moon. You will also receive a certificate showcasing your support of the mission. The deadline is June 27, 2008. Via #
- 50+ Kick Ass Logos for Inspiration, via #
- Testing Kerning and OpenType features in Firefox 3, via #
- 30 Inspiring Poster Designs, via #
- The Iranian Blogosphere
- Simon Willison argues why MS’ Open ID way is okay, The point of “Open” in OpenID
- Anyone interested for a Photoshop Keyboard?
- Signs of Switzerland Series, via #
- Nice groups on Flickr: Fog and Rain and Catching Sun
- Flickr pool of Art of the Luggage Label’s from around the world via #
And, I think you must read this piece I found out at Zeldman, The Vanishing Personal Site
Have a nice day! #
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Adobe AIR 1.1 is out
Just got the twit.
Adobe AIR 1.1 is out! Read related wiki details.
Are you using this platform too? Actually, I still do not have some good apps to use with this platform, my favorite was twhirl which I used to read my twitter account, both on Mac and PC. I’ve tried several apps, but do not satisfy much in the context of usefulness either the user experience.
Do you have any AIR apps can I try? Please consider to share in the comments. Thank you. #
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Confusing Signage
A signage inside Jakarta’s Ragunan Zoo complex near exit/entry zone.
See that signage. Clear? Confused?
You can know how to get to the Elephant, Giraffe, Zebra, and so on. Great!
Then, what? If you turn right you can get into Blok M? Turn left then you can go to TMII, Pasar Minggu, Tanah Abang, PIM, etc? What?
I think those city related sign should be marked differently, may be using different color. Or be placed in different area. #
UPDATE: Thanks mas Ronny. After published this post I’ve reminded by my wife, “That should be confusing, not confused.” But later, being so busy and so on, I forgot to rename this. Thanks.
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Woz: How it Began
Steve Wozniak: How it began, same enthusiast interview as I recalled from his interview with Jessica Livingston on Founders at Work. He also told he was no money, so he was assembled all his genious computer with half or one of third of original design.
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple and inventor of the Apple I and II, talks with the BBC about starting Apple in 1976. “Everything was … thinking about the good of humanity,” he said. His starting salary? $24,000 a year: maybe a quarter of what an Apple engineer makes today.
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Links for 2008-06-21
- The Color of Money from Around the World via Coudal
- 2008 web design trends, the year is not yet ended. But here is the trends. Via Coudal.
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